AB 65, as introduced, Alejo. Local law enforcement: body-worn cameras: matching grant program.
Existing law generally requires local agencies to provide each newly hired police officer and deputy sheriff with a pistol and other specified equipment.
This bill would appropriate an unspecified sum from the General Fund to the Department of Justice for purposes of matching federal funds available to purchase body-worn cameras and related equipment for use by local peace officers. The bill would require the department to develop a matching grant program for local jurisdictions that would either allow the state to apply for federal matching funds on behalf of a local law enforcement entity, or to reimburse a local law enforcement entity that has expended its funds for purposes of obtaining federal matching funds for body-worn cameras, as described.
Vote: 2⁄3. Appropriation: yes. Fiscal committee: yes. State-mandated local program: no.
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
Title 14 (commencing with Section 14400) is
2added to Part 4 of the Penal Code, to read:
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The Department of Justice shall develop a matching
8grant program for the purpose of matching federal funds available
9to local law enforcement entities to purchase body-worn cameras
10and related data storage and equipment. The matching grant
11program shall allow the state either to apply for federal matching
12funds on behalf of a local law enforcement entity, or to reimburse
13a local law enforcement entity that has expended its funds for
14federal matching fund purposes.
The state matching grant program shall comport with
16requirements of the federal matching fund program for purposes
17of purchasing body-worn cameras for use by local peace officers.
There is hereby appropriated from the General Fund
19to the Department of Justice, the amount of ____ dollars ($____)
20for the purpose of matching federal funds available to local law
21enforcement entities to purchase body-worn cameras and related
22data storage and equipment.
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