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



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Amended  IN  Assembly  March 20, 2000
Amended  IN  Assembly  April 04, 2000

CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE— 1999–2000 REGULAR SESSION

Assembly Bill
No. 1803

Introduced  by  Assembly Member Strickland
 (Coauthor(s): Assembly Member Bock, Cunneen, Frusetta, Jackson, Maldonado, Zettel)
 (Coauthor(s): Senator McPherson, O'Connell)

January 31, 2000

An act to amend Section 14172 of, to add Section 14176 to, and to repeal Section 14175 of, Sections 14176 and 14177 to the Penal Code, relating to rural crimes.


LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


AB 1803, as amended, Strickland. Rural crime prevention programs.
Existing law authorizes the establishment of rural crime prevention programs in Fresno, Kern, Kings, Madera, Merced, San Joaquin, Stanislaus, and Tulare Counties, as well as a regional Rural Crime Task Force collectively made up of officials from those counties, to develop and fund crime prevention, problem solving, and crime control techniques, to encourage timely reporting of crimes, and to evaluate the results of these activities. Existing law provided specified funding to these counties in the Budget Act of 1999, and provides that provisions authorizing these programs shall become inoperative on June 30, 2000, and are thereafter repealed.
This bill would delete the repeal of these provisions, and would establish a similar program to be known as the Central Coast Rural Crime Prevention Program, for the Counties of Alameda, Contra Costa, Monterey, San Benito, San Luis Obispo, San Mateo, Santa Barbara, Santa Clara, Santa Cruz, and Ventura, and would declare the intent of the Legislature that future funding for these rural crime prevention programs established pursuant to this regional programs shall be subject to appropriation in the annual Budget Act. This bill would also exclude rural crime prevention programs established after December 31, 2000, from require a specified cost-benefit analysis and reporting requirements evaluation of the program by June 30, 2002.
Vote: MAJORITY   Appropriation: NO   Fiscal Committee: NO   Local Program: NO  

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:


SECTION 1.

 Section 14172 of the Penal Code is amended to read:

14172.(a)By September 30, 2000, each designated county shall prepare and submit to the Legislative Analyst a detailed cost-benefit analysis of the entire program, wherein 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 December 31, 2000.

(b)This section shall not apply to counties that develop a Rural Crime Prevention Program after December 31, 2000.

SEC. 2.Section 14175 of the Penal Code is repealed.

SEC. 3.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.