Amended in Senate March 25, 2014

Senate Bill No. 1198

Introduced by Senator Hancock

February 20, 2014

An act to amend Section 13012.5 of the Penal Code, relating to criminal statistics.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL’S DIGEST

SB 1198, as amended, Hancock. Criminal statistics: countywide begin delete statistics. end delete begin insert statistics: Internet Web site. end insert

Existing law requires the Department of Justice to present a report to the Governor annually containing the statewide criminal statistics of the preceding year.

This bill would require the department to also include in that report countywide criminal statistics for that period begin insert , and specified information regarding persons who were younger than 21 years of age at the time of their offenses end insert . begin insert The bill would require the department to post on its Internet Web site the information required by its provisions in a format that allows a user to query and download the information. The bill would delete an obsolete provision. end insert

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 13012.5 of the Penal Code is amended
to read:

13012.5.  

(a) The annual report published by the department
under Section 13010 shall, in regard to the contents required by
subdivision (d) of Section 13012, include the following statewide
and county level information:

(1) The annual number of fitness hearings held in the juvenile
courts under Section 707 of the Welfare and Institutions Code,
and the outcomes of those hearings including orders to remand to
adult criminal court, cross-referenced with information about the
age, gender, ethnicity, begin insert commitment end insert begin insert county, end insert and offense of the
minors whose cases are the subject of those fitness hearings.

(2) The annual number of minors whose cases are filed directly
in adult criminal court under Sections 602.5 and 707 of the Welfare
and Institutions Code, begin insert classified according to the manner in which
adult court jurisdiction was initiated and end insert cross-referenced with
information about the age, gender, ethnicity, begin insert commitment end insert begin insert county, end insert
and offense of the minors whose cases are filed directly to the adult
criminal court.

(3) The outcomes of cases involving minors who are prosecuted
in adult criminal courts, begin delete regardless of how end delete begin insert classified according to
the manner in which end insert adult court jurisdiction was initiated, begin insert and end insert
including begin insert the length of time in custody prior to disposition of the
case, end insert whether the minor was acquitted or convicted, begin delete or end delete whether
the case was dismissed and returned to juvenile court, begin delete including end delete
begin insert and end insert sentencing outcomes begin insert end insert begin insert in juvenile or adult criminal courts end insert ,
cross-referenced with the age, gender, ethnicity, begin insert commitment
county, end insert and offense of the minors subject to these court actions.

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(4) The total number of people who were under 21 years of age
at the time of their offenses who are currently committed to the
California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation
cross-referenced with the age, gender, ethnicity, commitment
county, and offense of the individuals.

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(b) The department’s annual report published under Section
13010 shall include the information described in subdivision (d)
of Section 13012 begin delete , as further delineated by this section, beginning
with the report due on July 1, 2003, for the preceding calendar
year end delete .

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(c) The department shall post on its Internet Web site the
information required by subdivisions (a) and (b) in a format that
allows a user to query and download the information for the most
recent reporting year and for prior years or reporting cycles for
which the information is available.

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(d) The department shall post on its Internet Web site individual
offender information used to compile the information required by
subdivision (a), including, but not limited to:

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(1) The offender’s residence ZIP Code at the time of the offense.

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(2) The number of the offender’s adjudications prior to the
offense.

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(e) The department shall post on its Internet Web site annually
the number of people under 21 years of age at the time of their
offenses who were sentenced to state prison, including those
sentenced to state prison who were ordered to serve their terms
in a county facility, and the number of those people who were still
serving sentences at yearend, the offense, the sentence and
enhancement for each offense, cross-referenced with the person’s
age at the time of the offense, gender, ethnicity, commitment county,
and date of offense.

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