BILL NUMBER:  AB 1017
  VETOED	DATE: 10/12/2009




To the Members of the California State Assembly:

I am returning Assembly Bill 1017 without my signature.

This measure would require law enforcement agencies to annually
report to the Department of Justice (DOJ) information pertaining to
the total number of rape kits received and tested during the
preceding calendar year, the total number of untested kits in its
possession as of January 1 of the reporting year, and the number of
rape kits that law enforcement has requested to be tested that remain
untested.

I strongly support efforts to ensure that rape kits are analyzed and
processed in a timely manner in order to identify and prosecute sex
offenders.  However, requiring law enforcement agencies to provide
backlog statistics to the DOJ would place significant cost burdens on
these agencies and would divert scarce resources away from
processing these kits.  In addition, this measure does not require
the DOJ to do anything with the reports received.  Assuming that the
DOJ would have to administer, collect, and manage these records, this
could impose additional cost pressures on the DOJ.

Since this measure would create additional state costs that cannot be
accommodated in a time of fiscal crisis, I am returning this bill
without my signature.

Sincerely,



Arnold Schwarzenegger