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THIRD READING
Bill No: AB 1998
Author: Campos (D), et al.
Amended: 8/15/16 in Senate
Vote: 21
SENATE PUBLIC SAFETY COMMITTEE: 7-0, 6/28/16
AYES: Hancock, Anderson, Glazer, Leno, Liu, Monning, Stone
SENATE APPROPRIATIONS COMMITTEE: 7-0, 8/11/16
AYES: Lara, Bates, Beall, Hill, McGuire, Mendoza, Nielsen
ASSEMBLY FLOOR: 78-0, 5/12/16 (Consent) - See last page for
vote
SUBJECT: Juveniles: data collection
SOURCE: NOXTIN: Equal Justice for All
DIGEST: This bill 1) requires the Board of State and Community
Corrections, 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; and 2) consolidates and
revises the data that is required to be collected and reported
for two major state juvenile justice grant programs, as
specified.
ANALYSIS:
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Existing law:
1)Requires, generally, the Department of Justice ("DOJ") to
collect specified crime-related data, and to prepare an annual
report of crime-related statistics, as specified. (Penal Code
§ 13010.)
2)Establishes the "Board of State and Community Corrections"
("BSCC"), as specified.
3)Establishes within the BSCC the "California Juvenile Justice
Data Working Group. The 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," with a report
that was due and produced earlier this year. (Penal Code §
6032.)
4)Establishes the Juvenile Justice Crime Prevention Act of 2000
("JJCPA"), including the establishment in each county treasury
a Supplemental Law Enforcement Services Fund (SLESF) to
receive funding from the state, as specified. (Government
Code § 30061 et seq.)
This bill:
1)Requires 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.
2)Revises and recasts 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 requires
consolidation of the information to be reported annually to
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the BSCC, as specified.
3)Authorizes 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
reporting requirements, and, (3) monitor and inspect any
programs or facilities supported by grant funds and to enforce
violations of grant requirements.
4)Expands eligibility for grant funding for multiagency juvenile
justice plans and youthful offender programs to include
strategies and system enhancements.
Background
Juvenile justice data collection in California has long been an
issue of concern among many juvenile justice advocates and
experts. In its September 1994 report, The Juvenile Crime
Challenge: Making Prevention a Priority
(http://www.lhc.ca.gov/earlyreports/127rp.html), the Little
Hoover Commission stated:
The current lack of data on costs across
jurisdictional levels, case outcomes and comprehensive
recidivism tracking makes it difficult to make
informed and rational policy decisions.
In its final report dated September of 1996, the California Task
Force to Review Juvenile Crime and the Juvenile Response stated:
Throughout testimony to the Task Force and throughout
this report, reference is made to the lack of research
and statistics about the juvenile justice system . . .
This paucity of good information for decision-making
makes the work of the research and statistical
community in California's governmental agencies,
academic institutions, and private research firms much
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more difficult. . . .
At the deepest end of the system, the chapter on
Jurisdiction of the Juvenile Court cites a list of
unanswered research questions on fitness and waiver
policy in California. This list included such
questions as: "How many motions for waiver or fitness
hearings are filed? For which offenders and offenses?
What are the county-specific rates, and what is the
variation across counties?"
Twenty years later, in January 2016, a report produced by a
working group of the BSCC (required by AB 1468 in 2014)
concluded that California continues to have "critical gaps,
fractures and omissions in the total foundation and framework of
the state's juvenile justice data system."
FISCAL EFFECT: Appropriation: No Fiscal
Com.:YesLocal: Yes
The Senate Appropriations Committee analysis states:
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
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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
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.
SUPPORT: (Verified8/11/16)
NOXTIN: Equal Justice for All (source)
Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice
Chief Probation Officers of California
Commonweal the Juvenile Justice Project
National Association of Social Workers California Chapter
Pacific Juvenile Defender Association
OPPOSITION: (Verified8/11/16)
None received
ASSEMBLY FLOOR: 78-0, 5/12/16
AYES: Achadjian, Alejo, Travis Allen, Arambula, Atkins, Baker,
Bigelow, Bloom, Bonilla, Bonta, Brough, Brown, Calderon,
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Campos, Chang, Chau, Chávez, Chiu, Chu, Cooley, Cooper,
Dababneh, Dahle, Daly, Dodd, Eggman, Frazier, Beth Gaines,
Gallagher, Cristina Garcia, Eduardo Garcia, Gatto, Gipson,
Gomez, Gonzalez, Gordon, Gray, Grove, Hadley, Harper, Roger
Hernández, Holden, Irwin, Jones, Kim, Lackey, Levine, Linder,
Lopez, Low, Maienschein, Mathis, Mayes, McCarty, Medina,
Melendez, Mullin, Nazarian, Obernolte, O'Donnell, Olsen,
Patterson, Quirk, Ridley-Thomas, Rodriguez, Salas, Santiago,
Steinorth, Mark Stone, Thurmond, Ting, Wagner, Waldron, Weber,
Wilk, Williams, Wood, Rendon
NO VOTE RECORDED: Burke, Jones-Sawyer
Prepared by:Alison Anderson / PUB. S. /
8/15/16 19:36:15
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