BILL NUMBER: AB 2524	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Irwin

                        FEBRUARY 19, 2016

   An act to amend Section 13013 of the Penal Code, relating to
criminal justice.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 2524, as introduced, Irwin. Criminal justice statistics: data
set.
   Existing law requires the Department of Justice to collect
specified criminal justice information from local law enforcement
agencies and prepare an annual report presenting the collected data.
Existing law also requires the department to maintain a data set,
updated annually, relating to crimes reported, number of clearances,
and clearance rates reported by local law enforcement agencies.
Existing law requires that this data set be available through a
prominently displayed hypertext link on the department's Internet Web
site.
   This bill would instead require that the data set be available
through either the department's Internet Web site, as specified
above, or the department's OpenJustice data portal.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  SECTION 1.  Section 13013 of the Penal Code is amended to read:
   13013.  The department shall maintain a data set, updated
annually, that contains the number of crimes reported, number of
clearances and clearance rates in California as reported by
individual law enforcement agencies. The data set shall be made
available through a prominently displayed hypertext link on the
department's Internet Web  site.   site or
through the department's OpenJustice   data portal. 
This section shall not be construed to require reporting any crimes
other than those required by Section 13012.