Bill Text: CA SB622 | 2019-2020 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Civil detention facilities: state investigation.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Vetoed) 2020-01-13 - Veto sustained. [SB622 Detail]
Download: California-2019-SB622-Amended.html
Amended
IN
Senate
April 10, 2019 |
Amended
IN
Senate
March 27, 2019 |
Senate Bill | No. 622 |
Introduced by Senator Durazo |
February 22, 2019 |
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
This bill would require the Department of Justice to establish a confidential, toll-free telephone hotline number that shall be available to all individuals who are in civil detention and maintained and answered by designated nongovernmental monitoring groups. The bill would require any entity that is responsible for the civil detention of any individual in this state, upon receipt by the department of a report via the telephone hotline of a death or of a significant threat to the life or safety of an individual who is in civil detention in this state, to allow the department and the bureau immediate access to the facility in which the death or significant threat to the life or safety of an individual in civil detention was reported to have occurred. The bill would require the department to provide to the Legislature, and make publicly available, a report of all calls to the telephone hotline searchable by facility, date, and facility custodian, agency, or entity.
Digest Key
Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: YES Local Program: YESBill Text
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION 1.
Part 3 (commencing with Section 87) is added to Division 1 of the Civil Code, to read:PART 3. Civil Detention
87.
(a) The Legislature finds and declares, in keeping with its obligation to safeguard the humane and just treatment of all individuals located in California and its traditional police powers, that it is the intent of the Legislature that this measure ensure a prompt, thorough, and transparent investigation of the death or significant threat to the life or safety of an individual who is in civil detention in this state.(a)The Department of Justice shall establish a confidential, toll-free telephone hotline number that shall be available to all individuals who are in civil detention in this state. The telephone hotline shall be maintained and answered by designated nongovernmental monitoring groups.
(b)The department shall designate appropriate nongovernmental monitoring groups to maintain and answer the telephone hotline from among private, nonprofit corporations based upon demonstrated interest in the protection of, and advocacy for, the rights of the families of individuals who have died or individuals who have faced significant harm due to being in civil detention and its expertise in the civil population that they serve. A designated nongovernmental
monitoring group shall be responsible for maintaining the toll-free telephone hotline available to individuals calling from civil detention facilities only within their area of expertise.
(c)Any entity that is responsible for the civil detention of any individual in this state shall make the confidential, toll-free telephone hotline number maintained by the Department of Justice pursuant to this section available to every individual for whom it is responsible.
(d)Any entity that is responsible for the civil detention of any individual in this state, shall, upon receipt by the Department of Justice of a report via the telephone hotline of a death or of a significant threat to the life or safety of an individual who is in civil detention in this state, allow the Department of Justice and the Bureau of Investigation at the discretion of the Department of Justice, immediate access
to the facility in which the death or significant threat to the life or safety of an individual who is in civil detention was reported to have occurred.
(e)The Department of Justice annually shall provide to the Legislature, and make publicly available, a report of all calls to the telephone hotline searchable by facility, date, and facility custodian, agency, or entity.