BILL NUMBER:  AB 487
  VETOED	DATE: 10/03/2015




To the Members of the California State Assembly:

I am returning Assembly Bill 487 without my signature.

This bill would require the state parole board to notify the district
attorney whenever an inmate makes a request to advance a parole
hearing date and would allow district attorneys to offer their views
on whether a date should in fact be advanced.

District attorneys have been participating in parole hearings at
least since 1978. This is appropriate given the district attorney's
unique perspective. The timing of hearings, however, is best left to
the wise discretion of the parole board, as articulated in the
unanimous 2013 California Supreme Court decision in In re Vicks
(2013), 56 Cal.4th 274.

Sincerely,



Edmund G. Brown Jr.