Bill Text: CA ACR120 | 2015-2016 | Regular Session | Chaptered

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Bill Title: Data trusts: at-risk children.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 49-16)

Status: (Passed) 2016-08-05 - Chaptered by Secretary of State - Res. Chapter 97, Statutes of 2016. [ACR120 Detail]

Download: California-2015-ACR120-Chaptered.html

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BILL NUMBER: ACR 120	CHAPTERED
	BILL TEXT

	RESOLUTION CHAPTER  97
	FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE  AUGUST 5, 2016
	ADOPTED IN SENATE  AUGUST 1, 2016
	ADOPTED IN ASSEMBLY  APRIL 7, 2016
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  APRIL 7, 2016

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Mark Stone
   (Coauthors: Assembly Members Achadjian, Alejo, Atkins, Baker,
Bigelow, Bloom, Bonilla, Bonta, Brown, Burke, Calderon, Chang, Chau,
Chávez, Chiu, Chu, Cooley, Cooper, Dababneh, Dahle, Daly, Dodd,
Eggman, Frazier, Gallagher, Cristina Garcia, Eduardo Garcia, Gatto,
Gipson, Gomez, Gonzalez, Gordon, Gray, Grove, Hadley, Roger
Hernández, Holden, Irwin, Jones-Sawyer, Lackey, Linder, Lopez, Low,
Maienschein, Mathis, McCarty, Medina, Mullin, Nazarian, O'Donnell,
Olsen, Quirk, Rendon, Ridley-Thomas, Rodriguez, Salas, Steinorth,
Thurmond, Ting, Wagner, Waldron, Weber, Williams, and Wood)

                        JANUARY 19, 2016

   Relative to information sharing agreements.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   ACR 120, Mark Stone. Data trusts: at-risk children.
   This measure would recognize that the Legislature supports the
development of safe and secure data sharing between public education,
social service, and research entities through the Silicon Valley
Regional Data Trust as it pertains specifically to at-risk, foster,
homeless, and justice-involved children and youth and their families,
in order to better serve, protect, and improve the futures of these
Californians.



   WHEREAS, Children in California would benefit from a reliable and
secure data sharing environment that would assist social service
providers and public education institutions in best responding to the
personal circumstances and needs of students and families and would
allow researchers using aggregate data to better support these
efforts; and
   WHEREAS, The mission of the Silicon Valley Regional Data Trust is
to serve as a pilot demonstration site for addressing the needs of
diverse communities using a comprehensive data-informed approach that
provides quality services and promotes a healthy, safe, and
prosperous community while safeguarding sensitive personal data; and
   WHEREAS, Improved collaborations between agencies can help address
the complex challenges of serving vulnerable California children and
their families; and
   WHEREAS, The County of Santa Clara is currently participating in
the FosterVision Project with the Santa Clara County Office of
Education to share data about youth between schools and the county in
the interest of improving services to foster and
juvenile-justice-involved youth with appropriate protections to
safeguard sensitive data; and
   WHEREAS, The establishment of information sharing agreements
through a tri-county regional data trust utilizing the Santa Clara
County Office of Education Data Zone as the hub in partnership with
the University of California, Santa Cruz, will help ensure that data
systems are interoperable within and across agencies and sectors by
adopting common data standards, definitions, and language to best
serve the children in those counties; and
   WHEREAS, In order to safeguard the privacy of California children
and families, it is essential that the data trust strictly adhere to
existing state and federal law requiring the protection of personal
information and data pertaining to students and at-risk youth and
follow data security industry best practices in the interest of
protecting California's most vulnerable youth while allowing
appropriate data access and sharing; now, therefore, be it
   Resolved by the Assembly of the State of California, the Senate
thereof concurring, That the Legislature supports the development of
safe and secure data sharing between public education, social
service, and research entities through the Silicon Valley Regional
Data Trust as it pertains specifically to at-risk, foster, homeless,
and justice-involved children and youth and their families, in order
to better serve, protect, and improve the futures of these
Californians; and be it further
   Resolved, That the Chief Clerk of the Assembly transmit sufficient
copies of this resolution to the author for appropriate
distribution.