SECTIONS 1960-1962 - California Statutes

WELFARE AND INSTITUTIONS CODE

SECTION 1960-1962

1960. The Legislature finds and declares that local youthful
offender justice programs, including both custodial and noncustodial
corrective services, are better suited to provide rehabilitative
services for certain youthful offenders than state-operated
facilities. Local communities are better able than the state to
provide these offenders with the programs they require, in closer
proximity to their families and communities, including, but not
limited to, all of the following:
(a) Implementing risk and needs assessment tools and evaluations
to assist in the identification of appropriate youthful offender
dispositions and reentry plans.
(b) Placements in secure and semisecure youthful offender
rehabilitative facilities and in private residential care programs,
with or without foster care waivers, supporting specialized programs
for youthful offenders.
(c) Nonresidential dispositions such as day or evening treatment
programs, community service, restitution, and drug-alcohol and other
counseling programs based on an offender's assessed risks and needs.
(d) House arrest, electronic monitoring, and intensive probation
supervision programs.
(e) Reentry and aftercare programs based on individual aftercare
plans for each offender who is released from a public or private
placement or confinement facility.
(f) Capacity building strategies to upgrade the training and
qualifications of juvenile justice and probation personnel serving
the juvenile justice caseload.
(g) Regional program and placement networks, including direct
brokering and placement locating networks to facilitate out-of-county
dispositions for counties lacking programs or facilities.

1960.5. (a) The State Commission on Juvenile Justice, pursuant to
Section 1798.5, shall develop a Juvenile Justice Operational Master
Plan. On or before January 1, 2009, the commission shall develop and
make available for implementation by the counties the following
strategies:
(1) Risk and needs assessment tools to evaluate the programming
and security needs of all youthful offenders and at-risk youth.
(2) Juvenile justice universal data collection elements, which
shall be common to all counties.
(3) Criteria and strategies to promote a continuum of
evidence-based responses to youthful offenders.
(b) In drafting the Juvenile Justice Operational Master Plan, the
commission shall take into consideration both of the following:
(1) Evidence-based programs and risk and needs assessment tools
currently in use by the counties.
(2) The costs of implementing these strategies.
(c) On or before May 1, 2008, the commission shall provide an
interim report to the Legislature, which shall include the status of
the work of the commission and the strategies it has identified to
date.

1961. (a) On or before May 1 of each year, each county shall
prepare and submit to the Corrections Standards Authority for
approval a Juvenile Justice Development Plan on its proposed
expenditures for the next fiscal year from the Youthful Offender
Block Grant Fund described in Section 1951. The plan shall include
all of the following:
(1) A description of the programs, placements, services, or
strategies to be funded by the block grant allocation pursuant to
this chapter, including, but not limited to, the programs, tools, and
strategies outlined in Section 1960.
(2) The proposed expenditures of block grant funds for each
program, placement, service, strategy, or for any other item,
activity, or operation.
(3) A description of how the plan relates to or supports the
county's overall strategy for dealing with youthful offenders who
have not committed an offense described in subdivision (b) of Section
707, and who are no longer eligible for commitment to the Division
of Juvenile Facilities under Section 733 as of September 1, 2007.
(4) A description of any regional agreements or arrangements to be
supported by the block grant allocation pursuant to this chapter.
(5) A description of how the programs, placements, services, or
strategies identified in the plan coordinate with programs under
Chapter 353 of the Statutes of 2000 (AB 1913).
(b) The plan described in subdivision (a) shall be submitted in a
format developed and provided by the Corrections Standards Authority.
The Corrections Standards Authority may develop and provide a dual
format for counties for the submission together of the county
Juvenile Justice Development Plan described in subdivision (a) and
the county multiagency juvenile justice plan described in paragraph
(4) of subdivision (b) of Section 30061 of the Government Code. A
county may elect to submit both plans using the dual format and under
guidelines established by the Corrections Standards Authority.
(c) Each county receiving an allocation from the Youthful Offender
Block Grant fund described in Section 1951 shall, by October 1 of
each year, submit an annual report to the Corrections Standards
Authority on its utilization of the block grant funds in the
preceding fiscal year. The report shall be in a format specified by
the authority and shall include all of the following:
(1) A description of the programs, placements, services, and
strategies supported by block grant funds in the preceding fiscal
year, and an accounting of all of the county's expenditures of block
grant funds for the preceding fiscal year.
(2) Performance outcomes for the programs, placements, services,
and strategies supported by block grant funds in the preceding fiscal
year, including, at a minimum, the following:
(A) The number of youth served including their characteristics as
to offense, age, gender, race, and ethnicity.
(B) As relevant to the program, placement, service, or strategy,
the rate of successful completion by youth.
(C) For any program or placement supported by block grant funds,
the arrest, rearrest, incarceration, and probation violation rates of
youth in any program or placement.
(D) Quantification of the annual per capita cost of the program,
placement, strategy, or activity.
(d) The authority shall prepare and make available to the public
on its Internet Web site summaries of the annual county reports
submitted in accordance with subdivision (c). By March 15 of each
year, the authority also shall prepare and submit to the Legislature
a report summarizing county utilizations of block grant funds in the
preceding fiscal year, including a summary of the performance
outcomes reported by counties for the preceding fiscal year.
(e) The authority may modify the performance outcome measures
specified in paragraph (2) of subdivision (c) if it determines that
counties are substantially unable to provide the information
necessary to support the measures specified. Prior to making that
modification, the authority shall consult with affected county and
state juvenile justice stakeholders. In the event that any adjustment
of the performance outcome measures is made, the outcome measures
shall, to the extent feasible, remain consistent with the performance
outcome measures specified in subparagraph (C) of paragraph (4) of
subdivision (b) of Section 30061 of the Government Code for programs
receiving juvenile justice grants from the Supplemental Law
Enforcement Services Fund.

1962. (a) The Corrections Standards Authority, in consultation with
the Division of Juvenile Facilities, may provide technical
assistance to counties, including, but not limited to, regional
workshops, prior to issuing any Request for Proposal.
(b) The Corrections Standards Authority may monitor and inspect
any programs or facilities supported by block grant funds allocated
pursuant to this chapter and may enforce violations of grant
requirements with suspensions or cancellations of grant funds.