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AB-1803 Rural crime prevention programs.(1999-2000)



As Amends the Law Today


SECTION 1.

 Section 14176 is added to the Penal Code, to read:

14176.
 (a) The Counties of Alameda, Contra Costa, Monterey, San Benito, San Luis Obispo, San Mateo, Santa Barbara, Santa Clara, Santa Cruz, and Ventura may establish their own rural crime prevention programs consistent with the purposes of this title, and may collectively establish a task force for the prevention of rural crimes in those counties, to be collectively known as the Central Coast Rural Crime Prevention Program.
(b) Each county rural crime prevention program established pursuant to this section shall be administered by the county district attorney’s office of the respective county under a joint powers agreement with the corresponding county sheriff’s office, entered into pursuant to Chapter 5 (commencing with Section 6500) of Division 7 of Title 1 of the Government Code.
(c) The parties to each agreement shall form a regional task force that shall be known as the Central Coast Rural Crime Task Force, comprised of the respective county agricultural commissioners, county district attorneys, county sheriffs, and interested property owner groups or associations. This task force shall have the same powers and responsibilities as the regional task force established pursuant to subdivision (b) of Section 14171, and the participation of each county in the Central Coast Rural Crime Task Force shall be a condition of receiving funds pursuant to this section.
(d) It is the intent of the Legislature that funding for the rural crime prevention programs authorized under this section as part of the Central Coast Rural Crime Prevention Program shall be subject to appropriation in the annual Budget Act.

SEC. 2.

 Section 14177 is added to the Penal Code, to read:

14177.
 By December 31, 2001, each designated county shall prepare and submit to the Legislative Analyst a detailed cost-benefit analysis of the entire program, in which the cost to operate the program shall be measured against savings realized from crime prevention, crime suppression, and the number of prosecutions resulting from the program. These savings shall include the reduction of economic loss resulting from crime during the life of the project. The Legislative Analyst shall evaluate the program, in consultation with the Office of Criminal Justice Planning, and shall present its evaluation, including a detailed cost-benefit analysis of the entire program, to the Governor, the Joint Legislative Budget Committee, and the fiscal committees of the Legislature, by June 30, 2002.