Bill Text: CA AB1559 | 2017-2018 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Community engagement: gun violence prevention: grants.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Failed) 2018-02-01 - From committee: Filed with the Chief Clerk pursuant to Joint Rule 56. [AB1559 Detail]
Download: California-2017-AB1559-Amended.html
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CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE—
2017–2018 REGULAR SESSION
| Assembly Bill | No. 1559 |
| Introduced by Assembly Member Eduardo Garcia (Coauthor: Assembly Member Jones-Sawyer) |
February 17, 2017 |
An act to add Title 10.3 (commencing with Section 14130) to Part 4 of the Penal Code, relating to gun violence.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
AB 1559, as amended, Eduardo Garcia.
Community engagement: gun violence prevention: grants.
Under existing law, the Office of Emergency Services contracts for and regulates specified programs addressing community violence prevention and conflict resolution.
This bill would create the Community Engagement and Gun Violence Prevention Grant Program to provide grants to local law enforcement agencies to allow those agencies to subscribe to gunshot detection technologies designed to aid law enforcement in responding to and preventing gun violence. The Office of Emergency Services would implement and maintain the grant program, as provided.
Digest Key
Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: YES Local Program: NOBill Text
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION 1.
Title 10.3 (commencing with Section 14130) is added to Part 4 of the Penal Code, to read:TITLE 10.3. Community Engagement and Gun Violence Prevention Grant Program
14130.
(a) The Community Engagement and Gun Violence Prevention Grant Program is hereby created and shall provide grants to local law enforcement agencies to allow those departments to subscribe to gunshot detection technologies designed to aid law enforcement in responding to and preventing gun violence.(b) In order to be eligible for a grant, a technology-based system shall do the following:
(1) Provide immediate awareness of gunfire activity to law enforcement for its response and service to affected communities, including active shooter incidents inside coverage areas.
(2) Improve management of law enforcement resources by enabling focused and defined responses to gunfire incidents.
(3) Provide an increased opportunity to build trust between law enforcement and residents.
(4) Target enforcement to areas most affected by gun violence.
(5) Provide scientific and forensically sound evidence, admissible in court, to strengthen prosecutions of the worst offenders of gun violence.
(6) Have the ability to measure and report outcomes and results.
(7) Support patrol responses, investigations, analyses, and prosecutions.
(c) As used in this title, the term “local law enforcement agency” means a municipal police department or a county sheriff’s department, including a sheriff’s department that provides law enforcement services within the boundaries of an incorporated city pursuant to a contract.
