January 9, 2020

The State Advisory Committee on Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (SACJJDP) will hold its first meeting of the year in Sacramento on Thursday, January 16 at 10:00 am. The meeting will be held at the Board of State and Community Corrections (BSCC) headquarters, 2590 Venture Oaks Way in Sacramento.

December 12, 2019

December 12, 2019

The CSAC Administration of Justice (AOJ) policy committee met Thursday, December 5^th at the CSAC Annual Conference in San Francisco County.  The agenda topics for the meeting included: a discussion about juvenile justice reform in California, the presentation and approval of the Juvenile Justice Facilities in California: Report and Tool Kit and a presentation of advocacy efforts of 2019 and approval of the AOJ 2020 legislative priorities.

November 7, 2019

The Judicial Council and the State Controller’s Office are pleased to announce the annual Revenue Distribution WebEx training session, offered to address impacts of newly enacted legislation to trial court revenue distributions and provide updates on other related areas of interest. Such as, the pending bill that would consolidate collections reporting—read the latest update on Assembly Bill 1818 (Stats. 2019, ch.637) here.  

October 24, 2019

The Collaborative Comprehensive Case Plans: Facilitating Behavioral Health Diversion webinar hosted by the California Council on Criminal Justice and Behavioral Health and the California Department of State Hospitals (DSH), with funding support from the California Council on Criminal Justice and Behavioral Health, will be held on Tuesday, October 29 from 11:30 am – 12:00 pm.

September 19, 2019

SB 284 (Beall) – Juvenile justice: county support of wards

September 5, 2019

August 29, 2019

Please join the Council on Criminal Justice and Behavioral Health (CCJBH) for their upcoming Housing Issues, Opportunities and Resources Workshop on September 18 from 1– 4:30 PM.  The meeting location is to be announced. The purpose of this workshop is to discuss, with critical system partners, policy and program implementation, identify strategies to increase housing outcomes, and funding resources for justice-involved individuals experiencing behavioral health challenges.

August 15, 2019

Last week, the Judicial Council awarded millions of dollars to fund pretrial projects in 16 trial courts throughout the state. This year’s state budget earmarked $75 million to the Judicial Council to launch and evaluate two-year pretrial projects in local trial courts.

July 25, 2019

July 5, 2019

California Attorney General Xavier Becerra recently released five annual criminal justice reports that provide law enforcement agencies and the public with statewide data on criminal justice statistics. The reports, as well as the data behind each report, can be accessed via the OpenJustice website.

The reports released are:

June 20, 2019

California’s 2017 wildfire season was devastating. State of emergencies were declared by the Governor for the record-breaking fires in October and December for 13 counties in both Southern and Northern California. Then, while California was still recovering, it was struck with the deadliest and most destructive wildfire in our state’s history: the 2018 Camp Fire in Butte County killed 85 people, burned 153,336 acres and destroyed 18,804 structures.

June 13, 2019

June 13, 2019

CSAC is excited to announce a grant from Blue Shield of California for domestic violence recidivism prevention. The grant funding will allow CSAC to provide research and technical assistance necessary to create a domestic violence analytical tool, support a six-county pilot project testing innovative strategies for preventing recidivism in cases of domestic violence, and convene a statewide conference in November.  

June 6, 2019

May 23, 2019

Stepping Up Launches Interactive Repository of Programs, Policies, and Practices

May 2, 2019

The U.S. Department of Justice’s Bureau of Justice Assistance is accepting FY 2019 funding applications for the below programs:

April 18, 2019

The Public Policy Institute of California (PPIC) recently released a report titled “A Closer Look at Women’s Arrest Rates.” The report looked at data between 1980 and 2016, and found that arrest rates in California have dropped for both men and women, however, the arrest rates have dropped significantly more for men than women.

March 28, 2019

NACo is hosting a webinar, Meeting the Needs of Individuals with Substance Use Disorders: Strategies for Jails, on April 18 from 11 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. This webinar will highlight strategies counties can use to effectively treat individuals with substance use disorders in the jail, including the use substance abuse screenings, medicated-assisted treatment and population review teams.

March 14, 2019

CSAC is pleased to support Assembly Bill 597 by Assembly Member Marc Levine. This measure would extend the sunset date from January 1, 2020 to January 1, 2026 for county probation departments authorized use of flash incarceration for probation violations.

March 14, 2019

The National Stepping Up Initiative was launched in May 2015 to elevate the crisis of too many people with mental illnesses in jails and to provide counties with tools and resources to create sustainable and data-driven plans to address this challenge. In the four years since the launch, more than 475 counties have passed a resolution or proclamation committing to act on this issue.