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HomeMy WebLinkAboutMINUTES - 06261990 - 1.25 g,-025 TO: BOARD OF SUPERVISORS SE L _ Contra FROM: Phil Batchelor, County Administrator iCosta s County DATE: June 19, 1990 605 Un SUBJECT: LEGISLATION - SB 2031 (Presley, Boatwright, et al) SPECIFIC REQUESTS)OR RECOMMENDATION(S)&BACKGROUND AND JUSTIFICATION RECOMMENDATION Indicate that the Board of Supervisors continues to SUPPORT SB 2031 by Senators Presley, Boatwright and 45 other co-authors from both the Senate and Assembly which would create the Crank-Up Task Force Program as a part of the Clandestine Laboratory Enforcement Program to coordinate state and local efforts to clean up clandestine laboratories used to manufacture methamphetamine. The bill would also expand the requirement that persons who have been convicted of certain controlled substance offenses register with the law enforcement agency when he or she moves by adding additional offenses. BACKGROUND: on March 13 , 1990 the Board of Supervisors voted to support SB 2031 as it was introduced. On May 25, 1990 the bill was amended. Under existing law the State Department of Justice is required to establish a Clandestine Laboratory Enforcement Program to assist state and local law enforcement and prosecutorial agencies in apprehending and prosecuting persons involved in the unlawful manufacture of controlled substances. SB 2031 would create a Crank-Up Task Force Program within the Department of Justice as part of the Clandestine Laboratory CONTINUED ON ATTACHMENT:Yes YES SIGNATURE: RECOMMENDATION OF COUNTY ADMINISTRATOR RECOMMENDATION OF BOARD COMMITTEE APPROVE OTHER SIGNATURE S: i ACTION OF BOARD ON June 26, 1990 APPROVED AS RECOMMENDED OTHER VOTE OF SUPERVISORS I HEREBY CERTIFY THAT THIS IS A TRUE 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: ATTESTED JUN 2 6 1990 PHIL BATCHELOR,CLERK OF THE BOARD OF Please see Page 2. SUPERVISORS AND COUNTY ADMINISTRATOR M382 (10/88) BY Le DEPUTY ~~^ Enforcement Program. The Task Force would have the responsibility for establishing, conducting, supporting, and coordinating crank-up task forces composed of state and local law enforcement agencies whose task would be to target the investigation, seizure and cleanup of clandestine laboratories used to manufacture methamphetamine. The Department of Justice would be required to coordinate all Task Force operations with all local agencies having law enforcement responsibilities within the jurisdictions involved and would be required to solicit participation by appropriate federal agencies. The Department of Justice' s Bureau of Narcotic Enforcement, Bureau of Forensic Services and Bureau of Organized Crime and Criminal Intelligence would be required to provide staffing and logistical support for the task forces by supplying special agents, criminal intelligence analysts, forensic experts, financial auditors, equipment, and funding to the task forces as needed. Local law enforcement agencies participating in the Crank-Up Task Force Program would be reimbursed by the Department of Justice for personnel overtime costs and equipment or supplies required for task force activities. The Department of Justice would be required to report annually, beginning January 1, 1992, on its activities and on the accomplishments of the Clandestine Laboratory Program to the Legislature and to federal, state and local law enforcement agencies as well as other interested groups. The bill would appropriate $9,800,000 from the General Fund to the Department of Justice to implement the Crank-Up Task Force Program. Existing law also requires persons convicted of specified controlled substance offenses to register with the law enforcement agency in the county or city in which he or she resides or staying temporarily within 30 days of coming into the city or county. SB 2031 would expand this requirement by making it apply to persons who are convicted of of unlawfully possessing a specified controlled substance, including, 'among others, amphetamine, methamphetamine, and PCP. The bill includes an urgency clause and thus would become effective upon approval by the Governor. Passage and enactment of SB 2031 would provide additional assistance to the District Attorney and Sheriff-Coroner, as well as other local law enforcement agencies in attempting to address the growing problem of clandestine laboratories for the manufacture of methamphetamine and thereby would further the Board of Supervisors war on drugs. In addition, the bill would allow law enforcement agencies to keep track of additional individuals who have been convicted of controlled substance offenses. It is therefore recommended that the Board of Supervisors indicate that it continues to support SB 2031. SB 2031 passed the Senate Education Committee on April 25, 1990 by a vote of 7: 0. The bill passed the Senate Appropriations Committee on June 7, 1990 by a vote . of 10: 0. The bill passed the full Senate on June 12, 1990 by a vote of 33 : 0 and is currently awaiting a Committee assignment in the Assembly. cc: Senator Robert Presley Senator Daniel Boatwright County Administrator District Attorney Sheriff-Coroner County Probation Officer Health Services Director Drug Program Administrator Chair, Drug Abuse Advisory Board Les Spahnn, SRJ. Jackson, Barish & Associates