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                   Senate Appropriations Committee Fiscal Summary
                           Senator Christine Kehoe, Chair


          SB 1307 (Cannella/Runner) - California Criminal Gang Register.
          
          Amended: April 11, 2012         Policy Vote: Public Safety 6-1
          Urgency: No                     Mandate: No
          Hearing Date: May 7, 2012       Consultant: Jolie Onodera
          
          This bill meets the criteria for referral to the Suspense File.


          Bill Summary: SB 1307 would require the Department of Justice 
          (DOJ) to establish and maintain the California Criminal Gang 
          Register, a registry of persons convicted of gang offenses to be 
          organized by county of conviction. The registry is to be 
          established by July 30, 2013.

          Fiscal Impact: First-year start-up costs in excess of $700,000 
          (General Fund) to DOJ for staffing, overtime, programming, 
          development, and oversight. Ongoing annual costs in excess of 
          $500,000 (General Fund) per year.

          Background: Current law provides for the CalGang database, a 
          state-funded, local law enforcement maintained and controlled 
          criminal intelligence system. CalGang access is limited to 
          trained law enforcement officers and support staff. CalGang is a 
          wide area, securely networked, relational, intelligence 
          database, targeting members of criminal street gangs, tracking 
          their descriptions, tattoos, criminal associates, locations, 
          vehicles, criminal histories and activities. Information on an 
          individual may be entered into CalGang subject to specified gang 
          profile criteria. Further, CalGang records are purged if the 
          record has not been modified in the past five years.

          The database created pursuant to the provisions of this bill 
          would encompass a broader group of individuals as well as 
          increased access.   
          
          Proposed Law: This bill would require the DOJ, no later than 
          July 30, 2013, to establish and maintain a California Criminal 
          Gang Register, to be available through the California Law 
          Enforcement Telecommunications System (CLETS) to law enforcement 
          agencies and personnel authorized to access CLETS.









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          The registry is required to include the name, birth date, 
          conviction date, and, if applicable, the prison identification 
          number of every person convicted of a violation of the Street 
          Terrorism Enforcement and Prevention (STEP) Act, as well as a 
          breakdown of the data by county of conviction. 
          
          Staff Comments: The DOJ would be unable to absorb the costs 
          associated with the additional workload required to create the 
          new database. Significant first-year costs in excess of $700,000 
          (General Fund) for staffing, overtime, programming, development 
          and oversight of the project to establish the system are 
          projected. Given the six-month time frame in which to establish 
          and maintain the registry, first-year costs reflect limited-term 
          staffing plus overtime costs associated with project development 
          and oversight. Additional costs are included for training, 
          programming, and infrastructure.

          It is unclear under the provisions of the bill how the reporting 
          structure would be established. To the extent local law 
          enforcement agencies would be required to report the specified 
          information into a database separate and apart from current 
          reporting processes, significant workload costs, likely 
          state-reimbursable, could also be incurred.