Amended in Assembly April 7, 2016

California Legislature—2015–16 Regular Session

Assembly Concurrent Resolution No. 120

Introduced by Assembly Member Mark Stone

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(Coauthors: Assembly Members Achadjian, Alejo, Atkins, Baker, Bigelow, Bloom, Bonilla, Bonta, Brown, Burke, Calderon, Chang, Chau, Chávez, Chiu, Chu, Cooley, Cooper, Dababneh, Dahle, Daly, Dodd, Eggman, Frazier, Gallagher, Cristina Garcia, Eduardo Garcia, Gatto, Gipson, Gomez, Gonzalez, Gordon, Gray, Grove, Hadley, Roger Hernández, Holden, Irwin, Jones-Sawyer, Lackey, Linder, Lopez, Low, Maienschein, Mathis, McCarty, Medina, Mullin, Nazarian, O'Donnell, Olsen, Quirk, Rendon, Ridley-Thomas, Rodriguez, Salas, Steinorth, Thurmond, Ting, Wagner, Waldron, Weber, Williams, and Wood)

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January 19, 2016

Assembly Concurrent Resolution No. 120—Relative to information sharing agreements.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL’S DIGEST

ACR 120, as amended, Mark Stone. Data trusts: at-risk children.

This measure would recognize that the Legislature supports the development of safe and secure data sharing between public education, social service, and research entities through the Silicon Valley Regional Data Trust as it pertains specifically to at-risk, foster, homeless, and justice-involved children and youth and their families, in order to better serve, protect, and improve the futures of these Californians.

Fiscal committee: no.

WHEREAS, Children in California would benefit from a reliable
and secure data sharing environment that would assist social service
providers and public education institutions in best responding to
the personal circumstances and needs of students and families and
would allow researchers using aggregate data to better support
these efforts; and

WHEREAS, The mission of the Silicon Valley Regional Data
Trust is to serve as a pilot demonstration site for addressing the
needs of diverse communities using a comprehensive data-informed
approach that provides quality services and promotes a healthy,
safe, and prosperous community while safeguarding sensitive
personal data; and

WHEREAS, Improved collaborations between agencies can
help address the complex challenges of serving vulnerable
California children and their families; and

WHEREAS, The County of Santa Clara is currently participating
in the FosterVision Project with the Santa Clara County Office of
Education to share data about youth between schools and the
county in the interest of improving services to foster and
juvenile-justice-involved youth with appropriate protections to
safeguard sensitive data; and

WHEREAS, The establishment of information sharing
agreements through a tri-county regional data trust utilizing the
Santa Clara County Office of Education Data Zone as the hub in
partnership with the University of California, Santa Cruz, will help
ensure that data systems are interoperable within and across
agencies and sectors by adopting common data standards,
definitions, and language to best serve the children in those
counties; and

WHEREAS, In order to safeguard the privacy of California
children and families, it is essential that the data trust strictly adhere
to existing state and federal law requiring the protection of personal
information and data pertaining to students and at-risk youth and
follow data security industry best practices in the interest of
protecting California’s most vulnerable youth while allowing
appropriate data access and sharing; now, therefore, be it

Resolved by the Assembly of the State of California, the Senate
thereof concurring, That the Legislature supports the development
of safe and secure data sharing between public education, social
service, and research entities through the Silicon Valley Regional
Data Trust as it pertains specifically to at-risk, foster, homeless,
and justice-involved children and youth and their families, in order
to better serve, protect, and improve the futures of these
Californians; and be it further

Resolved, That the Chief Clerk of the Assembly transmit
sufficient copies of this resolution to the author for appropriate
distribution.