BILL NUMBER: AB 2489 AMENDED
BILL TEXT
AMENDED IN SENATE AUGUST 8, 2000
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 victim-oriented
community policy project grants .
Existing law contains various family violence prevention programs.
This bill would authorize the Los Angeles County,
Riverside County, and Alameda County Sheriff's 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 the following from the General Fund:
$1,000,000 to the San Francisco Police Department; $1,000,000 to the
Riverside County Sheriff's Department; and $500,000 to the Alameda
County Sheriff's Department. require the Board of
Corrections to administer and award victim-oriented community
policing project grants on a competitive basis to counties that
expand or establish programs designed to strengthen the quality of
community police services to families in crisis by providing the
families with immediate intervention, resource referral services,
victim assistance, threat assessment, and safety planning. The bill
would require the board to create an evaluation design for the
projects, as specified, with participating counties required to
provide specified information to the board, and would require the
board to make reports, as specified, commencing on June 30, 2002,
with a final report due on December 31, 2006.
The bill would appropriate $5,500,000 from the General Fund to the
Board of Corrections for the purpose of implementing the provisions
of the bill, with up to 5% of this amount made available to the board
for administering the programs specified in the bill, as specified.
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 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/PACT intervention teams are the most comprehensive
victim-oriented community policing project in this state and are
currently operating in six of 23 sheriff's stations in Los Angeles
County and throughout the central and eastern communities within
Riverside County.
(d) The Los Angeles County and Riverside County Sheriff's
Departments are interested in providing training to other agencies to
create their own 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, 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, 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.
13721. (a) The Board of Corrections shall administer and award
victim-oriented community policing project grants on a competitive
basis to counties that expand or establish programs designed to
strengthen the quality of community police services to families in
crisis by providing the families with immediate intervention,
resource referral services, victim assistance, threat assessment, and
safety planning.
(b) The Board of Corrections shall create an evaluation design for
projects specified in subdivision (a) that will assess the
effectiveness of a program in regard to curbing family violence.
Participating counties shall provide the board with specific outcome
and performance measures in a manner prescribed by the board.
Commencing on June 30, 2002, and annually thereafter, the board shall
submit a report to the Legislature based on the evaluation design
with a final report due on December 31, 2006.
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. Board of Corrections
for the purpose of implementing Chapter 3 (commencing with Section
13720) of Title 5 of Part 4 of the Penal Code. Up to 5 percent of
this amount shall be available to the board for administering the
programs specified in Section 13721, including providing technical
assistance to counties and developing an evaluation component.