LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


SB 678, as amended, Leno. Criminal recidivism.
Existing law authorizes the Department of Corrections and
Rehabilitation to oversee programs for the purposes of reducing
parolee recidivism.
This bill would authorize each county to establish a Community
Corrections Performance Incentives Fund (CCPIF) and would authorize
the state to annually allocate money into a State Corrections
Performance Incentives Fund to be used for specified purposes
relating to improving local probation supervision practices and
capacities, as specified. This bill would require the Director of
Finance, in consultation with the Department of Corrections and
Rehabilitation, the Joint Legislative Budget Committee, the Chief
Probation Officers of California, and the Administrative Office of
the Courts, to calculate the amount of money to be appropriated from
the state fund into a CCPIF. This bill would specify that the
calculation would be based on costs avoided by the Department of
Corrections and Rehabilitation because of a reduction in the
percentage of adult probationers sent to prison for a probation
failure, as specified. This bill would also require each county using
CCPIF funds to identify and track specific outcome-based measures,
as specified, and report to the Administrative Office of the Courts
on the effectiveness of the programs paid for by the CCPIF.
This bill would require the community corrections programs to be
developed and implemented by the chief probation officer, as advised
by a Community Corrections Partnership. This bill would require
specified local officials to serve as part of that Community
Corrections Partnership. Because this bill would increase the duties
for certain local officials, it would impose a state-mandated local
program.
The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local
agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the
state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that
reimbursement.
This bill would provide that, if the Commission on State Mandates
determines that the bill contains costs mandated by the state,
reimbursement for those costs shall be made pursuant to these
statutory provisions.
This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as
an urgency statute.

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Comments/questions on SB 678 (Benoit and Leno): Criminal recidivism.