HomeMy WebLinkAboutMINUTES - 05131986 - 1.22 BOARD OF SUPERVISORS
Phil Batchelor, County Administrator Cwtra
DATE ! May 6, 1986 County
SUBJECT: Legislation: Senate Bill 2323 (Davis)
SPECIFIC REQUEST(S) OR RECOMMENDATION(S) & BACKGROUND AND JUSTIFICATION
RECOMMENDATION-
Adopt a position of support for SB 2323 by Senator Davis.
BACKGROUND:
Senator Davis has introduced SB 2323 which would establish a
Serious Habitual Offender Program and appropriate $600,000 to the
Office of Criminal Justice Planning for the purpose of making
grants to counties for programs to deal more .effectively with
serious habitual offenders.
The Serious Habitual Offender .Program is designed to deal with
juvenile wards of the court who are defined as serious habitual
offenders in that they meet at least one of the following
criteria:
( 1) Has accumulated five total arrests, three arrests
for crimes chargeable as felonies and three arrests
within the preceding 12 months.
( 2) Has accumulated 10 total arrests, two arrests for
crimes chargeable as felonies and three arrests within
the preceding 12 months.
( 3 ) Has been arrested once for three or more burglaries,
robberies, or sexual assaults within the preceding 12
months.
( 4) Has accumulated 10 total arrests, eight or more arrests
for misdemeanor crimes of theft, assault, battery,
narcotics or controlled substance possession, substance
abuse, or use or possession of weapons and has three
arrests within the preceding 12 months.
SB 2323 states that the Legislature finds that a substantial and
disproportionate amount of serious crime is committed by a
relatively small number of chronic juvenile offenders commonly
known as drug involved serious habitual offenders. In enacting
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this article, the Legislature intends to support increased
efforts by the juvenile justice system comprised of law
enforcement, district attorneys, probation departments, juvenile
courts, and schools to identify these offenders early in their
careers, and to work cooperatively together to investigate and
record their activities, prosecute them aggressively by using
vertical prosecution techniques, sentence them appropriately, and
to supervise them intensively in institutions and in the
community. The Legislature further supports increased
interagency efforts to gather comprehensive data and actively
disseminate it to the agencies in the juvenile justice system, to
produce more informed decisions by all agencies in that system,
through organizational and operational techniques that have
already proven their effectiveness in selected counties in this
and other states.
SB 2323 sets forth requirements which must be met by a law
enforcement agency, district attorney, probation department, and
school district wishing to participate in such a program and
provides for matching grants to counties for the purpose of
establishing such programs.
The Sheriff-Coroner has indicated his support for SB 2323 .
Inasmuch as SB 2323 could provide funding for a more effective
method of dealing with such serious habitual juvenile offenders,
this office concurs that the Board of Supervisors should support
SB 2323 .