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                   Senate Appropriations Committee Fiscal Summary
                           Senator Christine Kehoe, Chair

                                          SB 601 (Hancock)
          
          Hearing Date: 05/09/2011        Amended: 04/26/2011
          Consultant: Jolie Onodera       Policy Vote: Public Safety 5-2
          
















































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          BILL SUMMARY: SB 601 would require the Secretary of the 
          Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) to develop a 
          department report card containing specified information for each 
          institution on a monthly basis and post the report card once a 
          month on the department's website. The bill would require both 
          the current and previous monthly reports for each institution to 
          be posted on the department's website.
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                            Fiscal Impact (in thousands)

           Major Provisions         2011-12      2012-13       2013-14     Fund
           
          Monthly report card for$100 annually          ongoing   General
          prison institutions    
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          STAFF COMMENTS: This bill meets the criteria for referral to the 
          Suspense File. 

          This bill requires the development of a report card to be 
          created using, when possible, information collected using the 
          Compstat (computer statistics) reports for each institution, 
          including but not limited to the following information:
           1) A brief biography of the warden, whether he or she is an 
             acting or permanent warden, and contact information for the 
             warden;
           2) A brief description of the prison and the total number of 
             inmates currently residing at the prison;
           3) The number of prisoner incidents at the prison;
           4) The number of inmates disciplined;
           5) The number of inmate appeals of disciplinary actions;
           6) Academic programs, including capacity, enrollment, 
             attendance, waiting lists, if any, and number of programs 
             completed;
           7) Inmate reading levels;
           8) Vocational programs, including capacity, enrollment, waiting 
             lists, if any and program outcomes;
           9) Substance abuse and treatment programs, including the number 
             of beds, the percentage of beds occupied, the number of 
             meetings held, and the attendance at those meetings;
           10)                             The number of staff vacancies;
           11)                             Overtime and sick leave totals;








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           12)                             The number of workers 
             compensation claims, including the number of staff persons on 
             leave due to accepted or pending claims;
           13)                             Work orders for repairs;
           14)                             The adverse actions regarding 
             staff;
           15)                             Contraband seized;
           16)                             The budget for the prison, 
             including whether the operations are under or over budget.

          The CDCR indicates that while most of the information is 
          captured in Compstat (with the exception of the warden biography 
          information and brief description of the prison), the data is 
          not captured in a uniform format across all institutions, and 
          would require compilation and monitoring on an ongoing basis. 
          The CDCR indicates one full-time information technology position 
          at a cost of $100,000 annually would be required to create, 
          update, and monitor the report card data for all institutions to 
          be posted on the department's website. 

          To reduce the estimated cost and concerns related to potential 
          delays in ensuring the most current Compstat data is available 
          on a monthly basis, compiling and posting the report card data 
          on a quarterly rather than a monthly basis may be considered.