BILL ANALYSIS Ó
SENATE COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS
Senator Ricardo Lara, Chair
2015 - 2016 Regular Session
AB 1998 (Campos) - Juveniles: data collection
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|Version: June 16, 2016 |Policy Vote: PUB. S. 7 - 0 |
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|Urgency: No |Mandate: Yes |
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|Hearing Date: August 1, 2016 |Consultant: Jolie Onodera |
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This bill meets the criteria for referral to the Suspense File.
Bill
Summary: AB 1998 would do the following:
Require the Board of State and Community Corrections (BSCC),
by January 1, 2018, to develop recommendations for best
practices and standardizations for counties on how to
disaggregate juvenile justice caseload and performance and
outcome data by race and ethnicity.
Revise and recast the data collection and reporting
requirements for counties for multiagency juvenile justice
plans under the Supplemental Law Enforcement Services Account
(SLESA) and juvenile justice development plans supported by
the Youthful Offender Block Grant (YOBG) program, and would
require consolidation of the information to be reported
annually to the BSCC, as specified.
Authorize the BSCC to (1) consolidate the annual report to the
Legislature and the Governor for the JJCPA with the annual
report required under the YOBG program, (2) provide technical
assistance to counties for promoting compliance with plan and
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reporting requirements, and, (3) monitor and inspect any
programs or facilities supported by grant funds and to enforce
violations of grant requirements.
Expand eligibility for grant funding for multiagency juvenile
justice plans and youthful offender programs to include
strategies and system enhancements.
Fiscal
Impact:
BSCC : One-time and ongoing costs potentially in excess of
$50,000 (General Fund) for additional workload to develop
recommendations for best practices and standardizations for
counties on how to disaggregate juvenile justice data, and
provide technical assistance on plan and reporting
requirements. Potential future administrative cost savings
(General Fund) through submittal of a consolidated annual
report to the Legislature to include the additional
information submitted by counties.
Local agencies : Potentially significant increase in one-time
and near-term local agency costs (Special Fund*), potentially
state-reimbursable or subject to Proposition 30 funding
provisions, in whole or in part (General Fund), to
develop/update multiagency juvenile justice plans, including
information on strategies and system enhancements, and to
conduct more robust data collection, analysis, and reporting.
Administrative overhead costs are capped at 0.5 percent of a
local entity's annual SLESA allocation. To the extent
additional administrative costs are incurred by a county above
the cap could potentially be subject to mandate reimbursement
by the state or require a subvention of funds from the state
pursuant to Proposition 30 (General Fund). To the extent the
required consolidation of reporting to the BSCC results in
workload efficiencies could potentially result in
administrative cost savings in future years.
JJCPA and YOBG expenditures : Potentially significant future
increase in juvenile justice plan expenditures (Special Fund*)
due to (1) eligibility for grant funding extended beyond
programs to include strategies and system enhancements,
including the implementation of any recommendations made by
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the BSCC on the standardization of disaggregation of data,
and, (2) the more robust data collection, analysis, and
reporting requirements on local agencies. To the extent
allocations are expended in full each year, a portion of
existing funding would potentially be shifted from programs to
support administrative activities.
*Local Revenue Fund 2011 (Enhancing Law Enforcement Activities
Subaccount and Youthful Offender Block Grant Special Account)
Background: AB 1468 (Committee on Budget) Chapter 26/2014, established the
California Juvenile Justice Data Working Group (JJDWG) within
the BSCC. Members of the Juvenile Justice Data Working Group are
designated by statute and include experts and practitioners
representing courts, probation, county government, state data
agencies, academia, and youth service and advocacy
organizations.
The JJDWG is tasked with recommending options to improve,
upgrade and modernize state and local juvenile justice data
systems in California, with a report due to the Legislature in
January 2016. In addition, by April 30, 2015, the JJDWG must
submit recommendations to the BSCC Board on improved reporting
requirements for two major juvenile justice grant programs-the
Juvenile Justice Crime Prevention Act and Youthful Offender
Block Grant. Those recommendations must include "streamlining
and consolidating current requirements without sacrificing
meaningful data collection."
This bill seeks to make the statutory changes required to
effectuate several of the recommendations included in the JJDWG
report.
Additionally, in the JJDWG executive summary entitled
"Rebuilding California's Juvenile Justice Data System:
Recommendations to improve data collection, performance measures
and outcomes for California youth, (January 2016)," the summary
describes the current Juvenile Detention Profile Survey as
lacking crucial information about juveniles in detention,
including characteristic data such as race and ethnicity.
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Proposed Law:
This bill would require the BSCC, by January 1, 2018, to
develop recommendations for best practices and standardizations
for counties on how to disaggregate juvenile justice caseload
and performance and outcome data by race and ethnicity.
Additionally, this bill:
Revises data collection and reporting requirements under
the Juvenile Justice Crime Prevention Act (JJCPA) of 2000,
as follows:
o Provides that the plan described above shall
be reviewed and updated (deleting revised), and
authorizes instead of requires a revised plan to be
approved by the county board of supervisors, as
specified.
o Provides that the plan or updated plan be
submitted to the BSCC "in a format specified by the
board that consolidates the form of submission of the
annual comprehensive juvenile justice multiagency plan
to be developed under this chapter with the form for
submission of the annual YOBG plan that is required to
be developed and submitted pursuant to WIC § 1961."
o Revises the reference in this section from
"juvenile justice plans" to a "multiagency juvenile
justice plan."
o Expands requirements to include not only a
description of the programs, but also the strategies
or system enhancements that are proposed to be funded.
o To assess the effectiveness of programs,
strategies, and system enhancements funded, requires
each county or city and county to submit by October 1
of each year a report to the county board of
supervisors and to the BSCC on the programs,
strategies, and system enhancements funded. Requires
the report to be in a format specified by the board
that consolidates the report to be submitted pursuant
to this chapter with the annual report to be submitted
to the board for the YOBG program. Requires the report
to include all of the following:
§ An updated description of the
programs, strategies, and system enhancements
that have been funded pursuant to this chapter in
the immediately preceding fiscal year.
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§ An accounting of expenditures during
the immediately preceding fiscal year for each
program, strategy, or system enhancement funded
pursuant to this chapter.
§ A description and expenditure report
for programs, strategies, or system enhancements
that have been co-funded during the preceding
fiscal year using funds provided under this
chapter and YOBG funds provided under Chapter 1.5
of the Welfare and Institutions Code.
§ Countywide juvenile justice trend
data available from existing statewide juvenile
justice data systems or networks, as specified by
the BSCC, including, but not limited to, arrests,
diversions, petitions filed, petitions sustained,
placements, incarcerations, subsequent petitions,
and probation violations, and including, in a
format to be specified by the board, a summary
description or analysis, based on available
information, of how the programs, strategies, or
system enhancements funded pursuant to this
chapter have or may have contributed to, or
influenced, the juvenile justice data trends
identified in the report.
o Requires the BSCC, within 45 days of having
received the county's report, to post on its internet
website a description or summary of the programs,
strategies, or system enhancements that have been
supported by funds made available to the county under
this chapter.
o Revises existing requirements to instead
require BSCC to compile the local reports and, by
March 1 following the October 1 submission and
annually thereafter, make a report to the Governor and
the Legislature summarizing the programs, strategies,
and system enhancements and related expenditures made
by each county and city and county from the
appropriation made for this program. "The annual
report to the Governor and the Legislature shall also
summarize the countywide trend data and any other
pertinent information submitted by counties indicating
how the programs, strategies, or system enhancements
supported by funds appropriated under this chapter
have or may have contributed to, or influenced, the
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trends identified."
o Authorizes the BSCC to "consolidate the annual
report to the Legislature required under this
paragraph with the annual report required by WIC §
1961(d) for the YOBG program. The annual report shall
be . . . posted for access by the public on the
Internet website of the board."
Revises data collection and reporting requirements under
the YOBG program, as follows:
o Deletes the requirement in this subdivision
that counties report on proposed expenditures, and
instead would require counties to report on proposed
"programs, strategies and system enhancements."
o Provides that these reports be consolidated
with the JJCPA report
o Requires "countywide juvenile justice trend
data available from existing statewide juvenile
justice data systems or networks, as specified by the
board, including, but not limited to, arrests,
diversions, petitions filed, petitions sustained,
placements, incarcerations, subsequent petitions and
probation violations, and including, in a format to be
specified by the board, a summary description or
analysis, based on available information, of how the
programs, strategies, and system enhancements funded
pursuant to this chapter have or may have contributed
to, or influenced, the juvenile justice data trends
identified in the report."
o Requires a description and expenditure report
for programs, strategies, and system enhancements that
have been co-funded during the preceding fiscal year
using YOBG and JJCPA funds, as specified.
o Makes additional technical conforming changes
to this section
o Revises existing provisions of law to update
its references, to delete the reference to the
Corrections Standards Authority and the Division of
Juvenile Facilities, and to state that the BSCC may
provide technical assistance "for the purpose of
encouraging and promoting compliance with plan and
report requirements" described in this bill, as
specified, and authorizes the BSCC to monitor and
inspect any programs or facilities supported by block
grant funds allocated pursuant to this chapter and may
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enforce violations of grant requirements with
suspensions or cancellations of grant funds.
Related Legislation: SB 1031 (Hancock) 2016 would have required
the Department of Justice (DOJ) to develop a design structure
and implementation plan for the California Juvenile Justice
Information System (CJJIS) by January 1, 2018, and establish and
implement the CJJIS on or before July 1, 2019. SB 1031would have
appropriated an unspecified sum from the General Fund to the DOJ
for the purpose of funding the development of the design
structure and implementation plan for the CJJIS. This bill was
held on the Suspense File of this Committee.
Prior
Legislation: AB 1468 (Committee on Budget) Chapter 26/2014
established the Juvenile Justice Data Working Group (JJDWG)
within the BSCC and states: "[t]he purpose of the working group
is to recommend options for coordinating and modernizing the
juvenile justice data systems and reports that are developed and
maintained by state and county agencies." The working group
includes representatives from affected state agencies (BSCC,
DOJ, DJJ), courts, counties, probation, research experts, and
children's advocacy organizations.
Staff
Comments: The BSCC has indicated minor and absorbable costs to
comply with the provisions of this measure, including the
one-time workload to develop recommendations for best practices
and standardizations on how to disaggregate juvenile justice
data by race and ethnicity. Staff notes that the BSCC may
experience an increase in workload in the near term to provide
greater technical assistance to counties in response to the
revised data collection and reporting requirements in this bill.
Prior to 2011 public safety realignment, the JJCPA and YOBG
grant programs were both funded by annual appropriations of
state funds to local county governments to support the programs
and operations authorized by statute. In 2011, funds for these
grants were incorporated into the public safety realignment plan
that moved multiple state-funded operations and funding into
local realignment accounts. After enactment of 2011 public
safety realignment, funds for both the YOBG and JJCPA grant
programs have been deposited annually by the state Controller in
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these county-level public safety realignment accounts. Each
county's share is determined by allocation formulas contained in
the enabling statutes.
For FY 2014-15, the statewide annual JJCPA allocation was $107
million, funded through a combination of vehicle license fee and
sales tax revenues. The statewide YOBG allocation depends on
annual sales tax receipts. The total YOBG allocation for FY
2013-14 was $104.3 million, with an additional $9.2 million in
growth funds. For FY 2014-15, the total YOBG allocation,
including growth funds, was estimated to increase to nearly $130
million, depending on actual sales tax receipts during the
calculation year.
This bill requires counties to develop and update multiagency
juvenile justice plans, including information on strategies and
system enhancements. Additionally, counties are required to
collect, analyze, and report additional and more detailed
information to the BSCC, in a format to be specified by the
BSCC, on its funded programs. The additional one-time and
ongoing local agency administrative costs for these activities
are unknown, but could be significant. Under existing law,
administrative overhead costs are capped at 0.5 percent of a
local entity's annual SLESA allocation. To the extent the
mandated activities result in a county expending administrative
costs above the cap could potentially be subject to mandate
reimbursement by the state or require a subvention of funds from
the state pursuant to Proposition 30 (2012), should the amount
of available funding for these activities be insufficient to
cover these costs.
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