Counties support a number of bills this year that continue
forward in the legislative process.
AB 1390 (Stone) expands the Transitional Age Youth (TAY)
Pilot Program to defendants who are 21 years of age or older, but
under 25 years of age at the time of the offense, as specified.
CSAC is in support of this measure. CSAC also supports
AB 597 (Levine), which extends the sunset date by two years
on the use of “flash incarceration. Both of these bills
will be heard in the Senate Public Safety Committee on June 4.
AB 964 (Medina) was held in Assembly Appropriations, and will
not move this year. CSAC was strongly opposed to this proposal,
and communicated to legislators local government concerns
regarding the feasibility of its requirement that that all local
detention facilities offer in-person visitation.
SB 144 (Mitchell) would eliminate a number of administrative
fees imposed on a person related to involvement in the criminal
justice system. CSAC, Chief Probation Officers of California,
California State Sheriffs’ Association, Rural County
Representatives of California and Urban Counties of California,
as well as a number of counties, are opposed to this measure, and
will continue to argue that sustainable funding must be provided
to back-fill the loss of revenue resulting from eliminating
counties’ ability to charge criminal justice fees. CSAC is
concerned that the breadth of the fiscal impact to counties and
courts associated with eliminating specified fee authority is far
larger that is being recognized. SB 144 passed off the
Senate Floor and is headed to the Assembly- this will continue to
be a priority bill for statewide organizations, individual
counties and county officials. Other AOJ bills of concern that
are now in the Assembly include
SB 284 (Beall) and
AB 1477 (Gloria).
CSAC has not taken a position on either
SB 42 (Skinner) or
SB 555 (Mitchell), but will continue to monitor both
proposals as they move to the Assembly.
