BILL ANALYSIS Ó
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Date of Hearing: April 15, 2015
ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS
Jimmy Gomez, Chair
AB
602 (Gallagher) - As Amended April 6, 2015
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Urgency: No State Mandated Local Program: NoReimbursable: No
SUMMARY:
This bill, beginning July 1, 2016, requires the Board of State
and Community Corrections (BSCC), in consultation with specified
stakeholders - courts, sheriffs, counties, probation - to
collect and analyze data regarding recidivism rates of
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offenders sentenced and released under realignment, and requires
the data collection and analysis to include one, two, and
three-year recidivism rates. BSCC is required post the data
online quarterly beginning September 1, 2017.
FISCAL EFFECT:
Annual GF staffing costs, likely in the range of $250,000 for
2.5 personnel-year equivalents to collect, track, analyze, and
post data relating to thousands of offenders. Collecting the
required data will be a challenge, as it will require
considerable cooperation with local law enforcement. In
addition, there will be unknown, but considerable, related
informational technology (IT) infrastructure costs as BSCC
identifies and builds its IT system.
COMMENTS:
1)Background. The mission of BSCC includes 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. BSCC
is charged with collecting and maintaining available
information and data about state and community correctional
policies, practices, capacities, and needs, including, but not
limited to, prevention, intervention, suppression,
supervision, and incapacitation.
2)Purpose. According to the author, "It is imperative that we
track the recidivism rates of offenders who, before
realignment, would have served their sentence in prison, but
now serve those sentences in county jails or being released
early. This is important data that is necessary to evaluate
the effects of realignment on public safety in our communities
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and the effectiveness of rehabilitation programs."
3)Prior Legislation:
a) AB 2521 (Hagman), of the 2013-2014 Legislative Session,
which was a similar bill, was held on the Senate Committee
on Appropriations' Suspense File.
b) AB 1050 (Dickinson), Chapter 270, Statutes of 2013,
requires BSCC, in consultation with certain individuals
that represent or are selected after conferring with
specified stakeholders, to develop definitions of key
terms, which include, but are not limited to, "recidivism,"
"average daily population," "treatment program completion
rates," and any other terms deemed relevant in order to
facilitate consistency in local data collection,
evaluation, and implementation of evidence-based practices,
promising evidence-based practices, and evidence-based
programs.
Analysis Prepared by:Pedro R. Reyes / APPR. / (916)
319-2081