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FROM: Phil Batchelor Contra
County Administrator
Costa
DATE: April 9, 1987 County
SUBJECT:
Legislation: Assembly'IBill 468 (Mojonnier)
SPECIFIC REQUEST(S) OR RECOMMENDATION(-S) & BACKGROUND AND JUSTIFICATION
RECOMMENDATION•
Adopt a position of support for AB 468 by Assemblywoman Mojonnier
which would authorize, but not require, the board of supervisors
of any county to allow the: Sheriff, Probation Officer, or other
official in charge of county correctional facilities or work
furlough programs, to offer a program whereby minimum security
inmates committed to a county correctional facility, and certain
inmates participating in a work furlough program, may voluntarily
participate in a home detention program in lieu of confinement in
the county correctional facility.
BACKGROUND:
Existing law authorizes a three-year limited pilot project
whereby a judge in a participating county may sentence a person
convicted of a misdemeanor to home detention in lieu of
sentencing a person to county jail. Assemblywoman Mojonnier has
introduced AB 468 which, as amended March 9, 1987, would
authorize the expansion of this home detention program as
outlined above.
AB 468 also provides that a person shall be eligible to
participate in a home detention program only if one of the
officials noted above concludes that the person is a fit subject
for a home detention program.
AB 468 also authorizes the ',,board of supervisors to prescribe an
administrative fee not to ' exceed the cost of the electronic
monitoring device and the cost of administration of the program,
to be paid by each participant according to his or her ability to
pay-
The County Probation Officer has been requested by San Diego
County to support AB 468 on;' -option
, the basis that it is a county
program and no county is required to participate in it. Mr. Buck
is not presently prepared to recommend the use of electronic
monitoring devices as a part of a home detention program, but
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X RECOMMENDATION OF COUNTY ADMINISTRATOR RECOMMENDATION OF BOARD COMMITTEE
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ACTION OF BOARD ON April 21 , 1987 APPROVED AS RECOMMENDED OTHER
VOTE OF SUPERVISORS
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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.
County Administrator APR 21 1987
CC: County Sheriff ATTESTED _
County Probation Officer PHIL BATCHELOR, CLERK OF THE BOARD OF
Jackson/Bari sh & Associates SUPERVISORS AND COUNTY ADMINISTRATOR
CSAC Director
Assemblywoman Sunny Mojonnier BY ,DEPUTY
M382/7-83
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indicates he is not philosophically opposed to the concept as
outlined in AB 468. The Chief Probation Officers Association of
California have a support ±, position on AB 468, and Mr. Buck
recommends that the Board of Supervisors also support the bill.