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TO. BOARD OF SUPERVISORS
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FROM: Phil Batchelor I C Itra
County Administrator CJIJJICI
DATE: March 23 , 1988
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SUBJECT:
Legislation: Assembly Bill 3864 (Frazee)
SPECIFIC REQUEST(S) OR RECOMMENDATION(S) & BACKGROUND AND JUSTIFICATION
RECOMMENDATION•
Adopt a position of support for AB 3864 by Assemblyman Frazee
which would authorize , a criminal prosecution to be commenced by
filing the necessary pleading in either electronic or digitized
form with the court.
BACKGROUND:
Under State law, a police officer must file a "hard copy" of a
traffic citation with the court in order to undertake court
action. This results in the accumulation of vast quantities of
paper and slows down the processing of these citations.
The Municipal Court in this County would like to undertake a
program whereby police officers would carry hand-held .computers
into which they could enter the same information which would
otherwisebe written on a citation. This information could then
be transmitted electronically to the court, avoiding the., need for
an extensive paper trail.
County Counsel has indicated to the Municipal Court that such a
program cannot be undertaken under existing law because of. the
requirement that the paper citations be filed with the court. AB
3864 would eliminate this problem and authorize the alternative
of filing the necessary document in. - either electronic or
digitized form.
The Municipal Court recommends that the Board support AB 3864 as
an economy and efficiency measure and this office concurs with
that recommendation.
CONTINUED ON ATTACHMENT: YES SIGNATURE
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�XRECOMMENDATION OF COUNTY ADMINISTRATOR RECOMMENDATION OF BOARD COMMITTEE
" APPROVE OTHER
S I GNATURE I S):
ACTION OF BOARD ON; .March 29, 1988 APPROVED AS RECOMMENDED OTHER
VOTE OF SUPERVISORS
1 HEREBY CERTIFY THAT .THIS IS A TRUE
�C 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 ATTESTED MAR 2 9 '9
CCMunicipal Court Administrator
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Sheri ff-Coroner PHIL BATCHELOR, CLERK OF THE BOARD OF
Assemblyman Robert Frazee SUPERVISORS AND COUNTY ADMINISTRATOR
Ralph Heim, Jackson/Barish
BY d �L �DEPUTY
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