Bill Text: CA AB2140 | 2009-2010 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Crime prevention: criminal gangs.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-03-23 - In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author. [AB2140 Detail]
Download: California-2009-AB2140-Introduced.html
BILL NUMBER: AB 2140 INTRODUCED
BILL TEXT
INTRODUCED BY Assembly Member Solorio
FEBRUARY 18, 2010
An act to add Chapter 3.3 (commencing with Section 13825.8) to
Title 6 of Part 4 of the Penal Code, relating to crime prevention.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
AB 2140, as introduced, Solorio. Crime prevention: criminal gangs.
Existing law creates several crime suppression programs.
This bill would make legislative findings relating to gang
violence. This bill would establish in the Emergency Management
Agency a program designated the High Intensity Interstate Gang
Activity Areas Task Force, as specified.
This bill would provide that the purpose of the task force is to
formulate a comprehensive strategy for addressing high intensity gang
activity throughout the state and to advise the Emergency Management
Agency on the appropriate disbursements of funds to regional high
activity gang areas.
This bill would specify task force members and other specified
information relating to the operation of the task force.
Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: no.
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1. Chapter 3.3 (commencing with Section 13825.8) is added
to Title 6 of Part 4 of the Penal Code, to read:
CHAPTER 3.3. HIGH INTENSITY INTERSTATE GANG ACTIVITY AREAS
TASK FORCE
13825.8. (a) The Legislature hereby finds and declares:
(1) California has experienced an escalation in gang-related
crimes, and violence is a threat to the safety of all citizens.
(2) Gang suppression efforts, left uncoordinated, will remain
disorganized and inefficient in addressing the problem of gang
activity, and will allow violence to continue to terrorize California
communities.
(b) There is hereby established in the Emergency Management Agency
a program designated the High Intensity Interstate Gang Activity
Areas Task Force to provide for the protection and safety of the
state's communities from gang activity and violence, and to enhance
crime prevention efforts through increased federal, state, and local
law enforcement coordination. All funds appropriated to the Emergency
Management Agency for the purposes of this chapter shall be
administered and disbursed by the secretary in consultation with the
High Intensity Interstate Gang Activity Areas Task Force as
established in Section 13825.9 and shall, to the extent feasible, be
coordinated with federal funds and private grants or private
donations that are made available for these purposes.
13825.9. (a) The High Intensity Interstate Gang Activity Areas
Task Force is hereby established for the purposes of formulating a
comprehensive strategy for addressing high intensity gang activity
throughout the state and to advise the Emergency Management Agency on
the appropriate disbursements of funds to regional high activity
gang areas.
(b) In formulating that strategy, the task force shall:
(1) Identify and designate High Intensity Interstate Gang Activity
Areas (HIIGAAs) throughout the State of California. When
establishing HIIGAAs, the task force shall consider:
(A) The current and predicted levels of gang crime activity in the
area, especially the number of gang-related homicides.
(B) The extent to which violent crime in the area appears to be
related to criminal street gang activity, such as drug trafficking,
murder, robbery, assaults, carjacking, arson, kidnapping, extortion,
and other criminal activity.
(C) The extent to which state and local law enforcement agencies
have committed resources to respond to the gang crime problem and to
participate in a gang-enforcement team.
(D) The extent to which a significant increase in the allocation
of state resources would enhance local response to the gang crime
activities in the area.
(2) Establish regional high intensity interstate gang activity
area law enforcement steering committees, and select the members of
those committees.
(c) The Secretary of the Emergency Management Agency shall appoint
the following members to the task force:
(1) A designee of the Governor's office.
(2) A designee of the California Emergency Management Agency.
(3) A designee of the Attorney General's office.
(4) A designee of the California Highway Patrol.
(5) A designee of the Department of Corrections and
Rehabilitation.
(6) A designee of the California State Sheriff's Association.
(7) A designee of the California Police Chief's Association.
(8) A designee of the California District Attorney's Association.
(9) A designee of the Chief Probation Officers of California.
(10) A designee of each federal High Intensity Drug Trafficking
Areas (HIDTA) executive director's office.
(d) The Secretary of the Emergency Management Agency shall
designate the chair of the HIIGAA Task Force from the appointed
members.
(e) The HIIGAA Task Force shall not be required to meet more than
12 times per year. The task force may create subcommittees of its own
membership, and each subcommittee shall meet as often as the
subcommittee members find necessary. It is the intent of the
Legislature that all task force members shall actively participate in
all task force deliberation required by this chapter.
Any member who, without advance notice to the secretary and
without designating an alternative representative, misses three
scheduled meetings in any calendar year for any reason other than
severe temporary illness or injury shall automatically be removed
from the task force. If a member wishes to send an alternative
representative in his or her place, advance written notification of
this substitution shall be presented to the secretary. This
notification shall be required for each meeting the appointed member
elects not to attend.
Members of the task force shall receive no compensation for their
services, but shall be reimbursed for travel and per diem expenses
incurred as a result of attending meetings sponsored by the Emergency
Management Agency.
