BILL NUMBER: AB 2489 AMENDED
BILL TEXT
AMENDED IN SENATE JUNE 20, 2000
AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY MAY 26, 2000
INTRODUCED BY Assembly Member Romero
FEBRUARY 24, 2000
An act to add Chapter 3 (commencing with Section 13720) to Title 5
of Part 4 of the Penal Code, relating to crime prevention, and
making an appropriation therefor.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
AB 2489, as amended, Romero. Crime prevention: Family Violence
Emergency Response Team.
Existing law contains various family violence prevention programs.
This bill would authorize the Los Angeles County , Riverside
County, and Alameda County Sheriff's Department
Departments to expand and augment existing
Family Violence Emergency Response Teams to operate on a 24-hour,
7-day-a-week basis, and would require the San Francisco Police
Department to use any funds provided by the bill to support a
Nighttime Repeat Offender Inspector assigned to the department's
Violence Response Unit, the duties of which would be to respond to
calls for police services that involve repeated crimes against women;
to conduct in-depth interviews with victims, witnesses, and
suspects; and to collect physical evidence, as specified.
The bill would appropriate $3,000,000 from the General Fund to the
Controller for allocation to the Los Angeles County Sheriff's
Department to establish the pilot program described in these
provisions, and , in order to establish the program described in
this bill, would appropriate $1,000,000
the following from the General Fund to the
Controller for allocation : $1,000,000 to the
San Francisco Police Department to establish the program
described in these provisions ; $1,000,000 to the
Riverside County Sheriff's Department; and $500,000 to the Alameda
County Sheriff's Department .
Vote: 2/3. Appropriation: yes. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: no.
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1. Chapter 3 (commencing with Section 13720) is added to
Title 5 of Part 4 of the Penal Code, to read:
CHAPTER 3. FAMILY VIOLENCE EMERGENCY RESPONSE TEAM ACT OF 2000
13720. The Legislature finds and declares all of the following:
(a) In 1997, the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department developed
an emergency response team pilot program called Safety Through Our
Perseverance (STOP) in an effort to curb the escalating problem of
family violence.
(b) The STOP intervention team was designed to
(a) In an effort to curb the escalating problem of family
violence, the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, in 1997,
developed an emergency response team pilot program called Safety
Through Our Perseverance (STOP); the Riverside County Sheriff's
Department, in 1998, developed a similar pilot program called the
Police Action Counseling Team (PACT); and the Alameda County Sheriff'
s Department, in 1999, began preparations to develop a similar pilot
program.
(b) The STOP/PACT intervention teams were designed to
strengthen the quality of community police service to families in
crisis by providing them with immediate intervention, resource
referral services, victim assistance, threat assessment, and safety
planning.
(c) The STOP intervention team is the most
(c) The STOP/PACT intervention teams are the most
comprehensive victim-oriented community policing project in this
state and is are currently operating in
three six of 19
23 sheriff's stations in Los Angeles County and
throughout the central and eastern communities within Riverside
County .
(d) The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department is
(d) The Los Angeles County and Riverside County Sheriff's
Departments are interested in providing training to other
agencies to create their own STOP STOP/PACT
teams.
(e) In 1999, the Alameda County Sheriff's Department began
developing plans to create a pilot project that would replicate the
current programs existing in Los Angeles and Riverside Counties.
(f) Since 1990, the San Francisco Police Department has
participated in a multifaceted and coordinated effort by every
component of the criminal justice system to address violent crimes
against women. This partnership has enhanced victims' ability to use
the criminal justice system to prosecute batterers and extricate
themselves from the cycle of violence and dependency. The
partnership includes the Police Department's Violence Response Unit
(DVRU), the courts, the district attorney, the Commission on the
Status of Women, the Mayor's Criminal Justice Council, the Probation
Department, as well as various nonprofit organizations.
13721. (a) The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department
13721. (a) The Los Angeles County, Riverside County, and Alameda
County Sheriff's Departments may expand and augment existing
Family Violence Emergency Response Teams to operate on a 24-hour,
7-day-a-week basis.
(b) The San Francisco Police Department shall use any funds
provided by this act to support a Nighttime Repeat Offender Inspector
assigned to the department's DVRU, the duties of which shall be to
respond to calls for police services that involve repeated crimes
against women; to conduct in-depth interviews with victims,
witnesses, and suspects; and to collect physical evidence.
(c) In order to qualify for funding under this chapter,
the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department the Los
Angeles County, Riverside County, and Alameda County Sheriff's
Departments and the San Francisco Police Department shall agree
that participants in their respective programs be trained for a
minimum of 40 hours in a domestic violence course approved by the
Commission on Peace Officers Standards and Training as set forth in
subdivision (c) of Section 13519, and domestic violence advocates
shall meet the minimum requirements set in Section 13823.15.
SEC. 2. The sum of four million dollars ($4,000,000) is
SEC. 2. The sum of five million five hundred thousand dollars
($5,500,000) is hereby appropriated from the General Fund to
the Controller for allocation according to the following schedule:
(1) Three million dollars ($3,000,000) to the Los Angeles County
Sheriff's Department to establish the pilot program described in
subdivision (a) of Section 13721 of the Penal Code.
(2) One million dollars ($1,000,000) to the Riverside County
Sheriff's Department to establish the pilot program described in
subdivision (a) of Section 13721 of the Penal Code.
(3) Five hundred thousand dollars ($500,000) to the Alameda County
Sheriff's Department to establish the pilot program described in
subdivision (a) of Section 13721 of the Penal Code.
(4) One million dollars ($1,000,000) to the San Francisco
Police Department to establish the program described in subdivision
(b) of Section 13721 of the Penal Code.