BILL ANALYSIS Ó
SENATE COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS
Senator Ricardo Lara, Chair
2015 - 2016 Regular Session
AB 2524 (Irwin) - OpenJustice Data Act of 2016
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|Version: May 31, 2016 |Policy Vote: PUB. S. 7 - 0 |
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|Urgency: No |Mandate: Yes |
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|Hearing Date: August 11, 2016 |Consultant: Jolie Onodera |
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*********** ANALYSIS ADDENDUM - SUSPENSE FILE ***********
The following information is revised to reflect amendments
adopted by the committee on August 11, 2016
Bill
Summary: AB 2524 would require the Department of Justice (DOJ)
to make available to the public its mandatory criminal justice
statistics reports through the OpenJustice web portal, to be
updated annually. This bill would state the intent of the
Legislature that following full implementation of incident-based
crime reporting, the DOJ will work to transition to exclusively
electronic crime data collection and evaluate the potential for
criminal justice statistical data to be updated on the
OpenJustice web portal at a frequency greater than once per
year.
Fiscal
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Impact:
OpenJustice web portal : Potential minor to significant costs
(General Fund) to the DOJ for programming and staffing for
annual reporting through its OpenJustice web portal.
Law enforcement agency data reporting : Potentially major
one-time and ongoing future cost pressure (Local Funds/General
Fund/Federal Funds) to state and local law enforcement
agencies potentially in excess of millions of dollars
statewide to report data solely through electronic means and
to transition data from summary to incident-based crime
reporting. To the extent federal funds (Federal Funds) are
provided as an incentive to agencies to transition to
electronic incident-based reporting, a portion of future costs
could be defrayed.
Committee
Amendments:
Reduce the DOJ frequency of updated reporting on its
OpenJustice web portal from quarterly to annually.
Remove the mandate on law enforcement agencies to submit
data electronically.
Remove the duty of the DOJ to "use the latest advances
in data science" to interpret statistical data.
State legislative intent that following full
implementation of incident-based crime reporting, the DOJ
will work to transition to exclusively electronic crime
data collection and evaluate the potential for criminal
justice statistical data to be updated on the OpenJustice
web portal at a frequency greater than once per year.
Make other technical and conforming changes.
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