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TO- BOARD OF SUPERVISORS
FROM: Phil Batchelor C ltra
County Administrator Costa
DATE: May 24, 1988
SUBJECT: Legislation: Senate Bill 1859 (Presley)
SPECIFIC REQUEST(S) OR RECOMMENDATION(S) & BACKGROUND AND JUSTIFICATION
RECOMMENDATION•
Adopt a position in support of SB 1859 which clarifies current
law to provide that a peace officer may take a child into
temporary custody if the officer is convinced that the child is
in immediate danger of physical or sexual abuse.
BACKGROUND:
Current law allows a peace officer to take a minor into temporary
custody when the child is in immediate danger of continued
physical or sexual abuse. Proving immediate danger of continued
abuse may prove difficult and, apparently, was not the original
intent of the Legislature. SB 1859 removes the word "continued"
thereby requiring only that the peace officer be convinced that a
child is in immediate danger of physical or sexual abuse.
The Social Services Director recommends that the Board support SB
1859 and this office concurs in that recommendation.
SB 1859 passed the Senate Judiciary Committee March 8, 1988 by a
vote of 8 : 0 and passed the Senate March 17 , 1988 by a vote of
36: 0. The bill is currently pending a hearing in the Assembly
Judiciary Committee.
CONTINUED ON ATTACHMENT: YES SIGNATURE:
X RECOMMENDATION OF COUNTY ADMINISTRATOR RECOMMENDATION OF BOARD COMMITTEE
X APPROVE OTHER -
SIGNATURE(S 1: (/
ACTION OF BOARD ON June 7, 1988 APPROVED AS RECOMMENDED /t OTHER
VOTE OF SUPERVISORS
1 HEREBY CERTIFY THAT THIS IS A TRUE
X 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.
CC: County Administrator ATTESTED JUN 7 198E
Social Services Director PHIL BATCHELOR, CLERK OF THE BOARD OF
Sheriff-Coroner SUPERVISORS AND COUNTY ADMINISTRATOR
Senator Robert Presley
Ralph Heim, Jackson/Barish
BY
M382/1-83 ,DEPUTY
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