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TO: BOARD OF SUPERVISORS
FROM: Phil Batchelor Contra
County Administrator
Costa
DATE; March 10, 1987 County
SUBJECT:
Legislation: Assembly Bill 434 (Polanco)
SPECIFIC REQUEST(S) OR RECOMMENDATION(S) & BACKGROUND AND JUSTIFICATION
RECOMMENDATION•
Adopt a position of support for AB 434 by Assemblyman Polanco
which would authorize the court, under specified circumstances,
to require a defendant as a condition of probation to submit to
substance abuse testing on a regular basis through the probation
department.
BACKGROUND:
Under existing law, the court,, in granting probation, may impose
a variety of specified conditions in order to accomplish certain
objectives. Assemblyman Polanco has introduced AB 434 which
would authorize the court, as a condition of probation, to order
a defendant convicted of specified controlled substances
violations to submit to substance abuse testing on a regular
basis through the probation department.
AB 434 would also apply these same provisions to a minor in
juvenile court.
AB 434 was introduced at the request of Los Angeles County, which
has asked other counties to support the bill. Gerald Buck,
Chief Probation Officer, indicates that passage of AB 434 would
not place any major additional demands on his department since
the courts of this County frequently order substance abuse
testing as a condition of probation.
In view of the request from Los Angeles County, and in view of
the position taken by the Chief Probation Officer, it is our
recommendation that the Board support AB 434 .
CONTINUED ON ATTACHMENT; YES SIGNATURE:
X RECOMMENDATION OF COUNTY ADMINISTRATOR RECOMMENDATION OF BOARD COMMITTEE
X APPROVE OTHER
SIGNATURE(S):
ACTION OF BOARD ON March 17, 1907 APPROVED AS RECOMMENDED OTHER
VOTE OF SUPERVISOF2S
X
T 1 HEREBY CERTIFY THAT THIS IS A TRUE
n UNANIMOUS (ABSENT / AND CORRECT COPY OF AN ACTION TAKEN
AYES: NOES: AND ENTERED ON THE MINUTES OF THE BOARD
ABSENT: ABSTAIN: OF SUPERVISORS ON THE DATE SHOWN.
Countv Administrator MAR 17 1987
CC: Chief Probation Officer ATTESTED _
Larry Naake, .CSAC Director PHIL BATCHELOR, CLERK OF THE BOARD OF
Kathy Snodgrass , Jackson/Barl sh SUPERVISORS AND COUNTY ADMINISTRATOR
Assemblyman Richard Polanco
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