BILL ANALYSIS Ó
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Date of Hearing: April 17, 2013
ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS
Mike Gatto, Chair
AB 310 (Alejo) - As Amended: March 20, 2013
Policy Committee: Public
SafetyVote: 6-0
Urgency: No State Mandated Local Program:
No Reimbursable:
SUMMARY
This bill adds South Monterey County and Salinas to the list of
communities with a high incidence of gang violence that are
specifically referenced by the California Gang, Crime, and
Violence Prevention Partnership Program (CGCVPP), and
appropriates $3 million (GF) to the Department of Justice (DOJ)
to implement the CGCVPP Program.
FISCAL EFFECT
Appropriates $3 million (GF) to the DOJ.
COMMENTS
1)Rationale . The author's intent is to provide funding for the
type of preventative gang intervention techniques intended to
be used by the CGCVPP. According to the author, "The purpose
of this bill is to reduce gang violence in vulnerable
communities, including, but not limited to city of Salinas and
South Monterey County." The author further notes "A survey
conducted by the Governor's Office of Gang and Youth Violence
Policy estimates that, between 2005 and 2009, over one-third
of homicides in California, and half of homicides in Los
Angeles County, were reported to be related to gang activity."
2)The CGCVPP program was established by AB 963 (Keely), 1997.
The bill designated 15 communities to receive grants for
community-based crime and violence prevention programs. The
program received about $3 million per year until it was
eliminated in 2003-04.
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3)Is DOJ the appropriate funding designee? Should the
Legislature wait for the recommendations for the January 1,
2014 gang program/funding recommendations of the Board of
State and Community Corrections (BSCC) ?
Aside from the obvious merit of preventative gang intervention
programs, should the Legislature appropriate a significant
amount of funding to a program that was created in 1997, never
funded, and has not been reviewed or updated since its
creation?
4)State gang-related programs under review by the Board of State
and Community Corrections (BSCC). AB 526 (Dickinson), Statutes
of 2012, requires the BSCC to:
a) By January 1, 2014, develop funding allocation policies
to ensure no less than 70% of funding for gang and youth
violence suppression, intervention, and prevention programs
is for evidenced-based programs.
b) Identify delinquency and gang intervention and
prevention grants that have a similar program purpose, are
allocated to the same entities, serve the same target
populations, and have the same desired outcomes, for the
purpose of consolidating grant funds and programs and
moving toward a unified single delinquency intervention and
prevention grant application process in adherence with
federal guidelines and mandates.
c) Develop incentives for units of local government to
develop comprehensive regional partnerships.
As background to AB 526's gang funding/program consolidation
efforts, in 2009, the Assembly Committee on Accountability
and Administrative Review held a hearing on youth crime
prevention and funding, which resulted in AB 526. In
addition, the former Office of Gang and Youth Policy
Violence (OGYVP), which is under the administration of the
BSCC but is not funded, recommended to the Assembly Select
Committee on Delinquency Prevention and Youth Development
that requiring or incentivizing local agencies to form
regional partnerships and pool gang related funding will
deliver services to a broader target population and maximize
state funding at the local level. OGYVP also recommended
grouping different funding streams that serve the same
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purpose and establishing a single application process to
reduce redundancy among local agencies.
The intent of AB 526 was to address the concern that as many
as 17 state agencies allocate funding to programs addressing
juvenile justice, delinquency and youth development, with
little coordination and collaboration.
5)Salinas and Hollister received gang-related grants in 2012,
2013 and 2014 . The California Gang Reduction, Intervention and
Prevention Program (CalGRIP), under the administration of the
BSCC, is funded through the State Restitution Fund and
provides grants to cities for gang prevention, intervention,
reentry, education, job training and skills development,
family and community services and/or suppression activities.
Awards, totaling $9.2 million, have been granted to 20 cities
for 2013 and 2014, including Salinas ($423,000) and Hollister
($422,000).
In addition, Salinas was the sole Northern California
recipient of a grant from the U.S. Bureau of Justice
Assistance for the Safe Neighborhoods Project ($400,000) in
2012.
Analysis Prepared by : Geoff Long / APPR. / (916) 319-2081