BILL ANALYSIS
SB 1831
Page 1
Date of Hearing: June 28, 2000
ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS
Carole Migden, Chairwoman
SB 1831 (Hughes) - As Amended: May 22, 2000
Policy Committee: Public
SafetyVote:8-0
Urgency: State Mandated Local Program:
No Reimbursable:
SUMMARY
This bill:
1)Establishes the School Safety Academy Pilot Project, to be
administered by the Department of Justice (DOJ), which would
provide grants to three competitively selected school safety
academies - one each in southern California, northern
California, and central California - to develop comprehensive
school safety training for persons responsible for school
safety. The DOJ would establish standards and procedures for
awarding grants.
2)Requires the DOJ, in consultation with the Commission on Peace
Officer Standards and Training (POST), to establish a School
Safety Academy Pilot Project curriculum, with the school
safety academies conducting between four and six sessions of
30 participants per year.
3)Requires the DOJ provide the governor and the Legislature
annual progress reports.
FISCAL EFFECT
Appropriates $825,000 (GF) to the DOJ to implement the project.
COMMENTS
1)Rationale . According to the author, "There is no single
training center or institution in California for those
individuals responsible for school safety to train together?
While there are many individual school safety training
SB 1831
Page 2
programs being offered by various training systems, no one
entity has brought all of the appropriate school safety
personnel together to train them at the same time.
1)Current law includes:
a) The statewide School Safety and Violence Prevention Act,
administered by the Superintendent of Public Instruction,
which provides funds to school districts for reducing
school-site violence in grades 8-12. This program is
budgeted at $100 million in 2000-01.
b) The School Community Policing Partnership Act of 1998,
administered by the Department of Education through the
School/Law Enforcement Partnership, which provides
financial assistance to school districts and county offices
of education to ensure safe, secure, and peaceful schools.
This program is budgeted at $10 million for 2000-01.
1)Concerns .
a) How does this proposal interact with the funded programs
referenced above? Have current programs been evaluated and
found deficient?
b) The DOJ does not seem to be the ideal administrator for
such a program, particularly considering the existing
programs under the Department of Education.
Analysis Prepared by : Geoff Long / APPR. / (916)319-2081