BILL ANALYSIS Ó AB 602 Page 1 Date of Hearing: April 15, 2015 ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS Jimmy Gomez, Chair AB 602 (Gallagher) - As Amended April 6, 2015 ----------------------------------------------------------------- |Policy |Public Safety |Vote:|7 - 0 | |Committee: | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |-------------+-------------------------------+-----+-------------| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |-------------+-------------------------------+-----+-------------| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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 AB 602 Page 2 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 AB 602 Page 3 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