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THIRD READING
Bill No: SB 466
Author: DeSaulnier (D)
Amended: 1/29/14
Vote: 21
SENATE PUBLIC SAFETY COMMITTEE : 6-1, 4/23/13
AYES: Hancock, Block, De León, Knight, Liu, Steinberg
NOES: Anderson
SENATE APPROPRIATIONS COMMITTEE : 5-1, 1/23/14
AYES: De León, Hill, Lara, Padilla, Steinberg
NOES: Gaines
NO VOTE RECORDED: Walters
SUBJECT : California Institute for Criminal Justice Policy
SOURCE : Californians for Safety and Justice
DIGEST : This bill creates the California Institute for
Criminal Justice Policy (CICJP), as specified.
ANALYSIS : Existing law establishes the Board of State and
Community Corrections (board), with the following mission:
The mission of the board shall include providing statewide
leadership, coordination, and technical assistance to
promote effective state and local efforts and partnerships
in California's adult and juvenile criminal justice system,
including addressing gang problems. This mission shall
reflect the principle of aligning fiscal policy and
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correctional practices, including, but not limited to
prevention, intervention, suppression, supervision, and
incapacitation, to promote a justice investment strategy
that fits each county and is consistent with the integrated
statewide goal of improved public safety through
cost-effective, promising, and evidence-based strategies
for managing criminal justice populations.
This bill:
1. Establishes in state government the CICJP.
2. Provides that the purposes of the CICJP shall include, but
need not be limited to, the facilitation of a comprehensive
and coordinated approach to delineate effective public safety
and justice systems through the use of evidence-based
practices, the promulgation of cost benefit analyses of
criminal justice legislation to promulgate a statewide plan
for public safety, and the development of strategies based on
data and science that reduce recidivism and hold offenders
accountable.
3. States that the Legislature requests that the University of
California (UC) house the CICJP to facilitate independent and
nonpartisan research on issues related to criminal justice
and public safety by experts in the UC system and beyond.
4. Requires the CICJP to conduct a cost-benefit analysis for
each pending legislative measure relating to criminal
justice.
5. Requires the CICJP include in an analysis a determination of
the potential effectiveness of the policy based on evidence
in the field of criminal justice.
6. Requires the CICJP provide that analysis to the appropriate
legislative policy and fiscal committee as soon as
practicable and not later than 60 days after receiving a
request to produce an analysis from a committee.
7. Includes non-codified legislative findings and declarations
concerning California's ongoing problems relating to its
criminal justice system, and the need for an independent
data-driven institution to promulgate best practices in
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criminal justice, as specified.
8. Specifies the provisions become operative only after the
Director of the Department of Finance determines that private
funds, in an amount sufficient to fully support the startup
and operation of the CICJP for one year from the date of
implementation, have been deposited with the state.
9. States that once the private funds have been expended to
fully support the startup and operational activities of the
CICJP, the provisions shall remain operative upon an
appropriation in the annual Budget Act.
10.Sunsets the provisions on January 1, 2018.
Comments
According to the author, "For the past 30 years, California's
criminal justice system has faced ongoing problems. Our prisons
have been dangerously overcrowded, hitting a peak of 173,000
inmates in 2006. The implementation of parole reform in 2009
and Public Safety Realignment in 2011 have significantly reduced
prison population numbers for the first time in decades.
Nonetheless, prisons are still over capacity, jail expansion is
increasing across the state, and too few justice system entities
have embraced evidenced-based practices to increase safety and
reduce costs. California needs an independent data-driven
institution to promulgate best practices in criminal justice and
guide the state in a transition from a problem-plagued justice
system to evidence-based practices. A dedicated, independent
institute can carry out nonpartisan practical research to
address the continuing issues in the criminal justice system and
delineate models for effective public safety and justice
systems."
FISCAL EFFECT : Appropriation: No Fiscal Com.: Yes
Local: No
According to the Senate Appropriations Committee, potentially
significant one-time start-up costs to the UC to establish the
institute. Annual costs through 2017 potentially in excess of
$2 million (non-Proposition 98 General Fund) for staffing,
actuarial services, faculty contributors and reviewers, and
overhead costs. The annual costs assume the UC is able to
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provide facility space for institute staff as an in-kind
contribution.
SUPPORT : (Verified 1/27/14)
Californians for Safety and Justice (source)
California Public Defenders Association
JG:nl:d 1/28/14 Senate Floor Analyses
SUPPORT/OPPOSITION: SEE ABOVE
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