Bill Text: CA SB1198 | 2013-2014 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Criminal statistics: countywide statistics: Internet Web site.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-05-23 - Held in committee and under submission. [SB1198 Detail]

Download: California-2013-SB1198-Amended.html

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BILL NUMBER: SB 1198	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN SENATE  MARCH 25, 2014

INTRODUCED BY   Senator Hancock

                        FEBRUARY 20, 2014

   An act to amend Section 13012.5 of the Penal Code, relating to
criminal statistics.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 1198, as amended, Hancock. Criminal statistics: countywide
 statistics.  statistics: Internet Web site.

   Existing law requires the Department of Justice to present a
report to the Governor annually containing the statewide criminal
statistics of the preceding year.
   This bill would require the department to also include in that
report countywide criminal statistics for that period  , and
specified information regarding persons who were younger than 21
years of age at the time of their offenses  .  The bill
would require the department to post on its Internet Web site the
information required by its provisions in a format that allows a user
to query and download the information. The bill would delete an
obsolete provision. 
   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.  Section 13012.5 of the Penal Code is amended to read:
   13012.5.  (a) The annual report published by the department under
Section 13010 shall, in regard to the contents required by
subdivision (d) of Section 13012, include the following statewide and
county level information:
   (1) The annual number of fitness hearings held in the juvenile
courts under Section 707 of the Welfare and Institutions Code, and
the outcomes of those hearings including orders to remand to adult
criminal court, cross-referenced with information about the age,
gender, ethnicity,  commitment   county,  and
offense of the minors whose cases are the subject of those fitness
hearings.
   (2) The annual number of minors whose cases are filed directly in
adult criminal court under Sections 602.5 and 707 of the Welfare and
Institutions Code,  classified according to the manner in which
adult court jurisdiction was initiated and  cross-referenced
with information about the age, gender, ethnicity,  commitment
  county,  and offense of the minors whose cases are
filed directly to the adult criminal court.
   (3) The outcomes of cases involving minors who are prosecuted in
adult criminal courts,  regardless of how  
classified according to the mann  er in which  adult
court jurisdiction was initiated,  and  including  the
length of time in custody prior to disposition of the case, 
whether the minor was acquitted or convicted,  or 
whether the case was dismissed and returned to juvenile court,
 including   and  sentencing outcomes 
  in juvenile or adult criminal courts  ,
cross-referenced with the age, gender, ethnicity,  commitment
county,  and offense of the minors subject to these court
actions. 
   (4) The total number of people who were under 21 years of age at
the time of their offenses who are currently committed to the
California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation
cross-referenced with the age, gender, ethnicity, commitment county,
and offense of the individuals. 
   (b) The department's annual report published under Section 13010
shall include the information described in subdivision (d) of Section
13012  , as further delineated by this section, beginning
with the report due on July 1, 2003, for the preceding calendar year
 . 
   (c) The department shall post on its Internet Web site the
information required by subdivisions (a) and (b) in a format that
allows a user to query and download the information for the most
recent reporting year and for prior years or reporting cycles for
which the information is available.  
   (d) The department shall post on its Internet Web site individual
offender information used to compile the information required by
subdivision (a), including, but not limited to:  
   (1) The offender's residence ZIP Code at the time of the offense.
 
   (2) The number of the offender's adjudications prior to the
offense.  
   (e) The department shall post on its Internet Web site annually
the number of people under 21 years of age at the time of their
offenses who were sentenced to state prison, including those
sentenced to state prison who were ordered to serve their terms in a
county facility, and the number of those people who were still
serving sentences at yearend, the offense, the sentence and
enhancement for each offense, cross-referenced with the person's age
at the time of the offense, gender, ethnicity, commitment county, and
date of offense.