SECTIONS 749.2-749.27 - California Statutes

WELFARE AND INSTITUTIONS CODE

SECTION 749.2-749.27

749.2. This article shall be known and may be cited as the Juvenile
Crime Enforcement and Accountability Challenge Grant Program.

749.21. The Juvenile Crime Enforcement and Accountability Challenge
Grant Program shall be administered by the Board of Corrections for
the purpose of reducing juvenile crime and delinquency. This program
shall award grants on a competitive basis following
request-for-proposal evaluation standards and guidelines developed by
the Board of Corrections, as authorized by this article, to counties
that (a) develop and implement a comprehensive, multiagency local
action plan that provides for a continuum of responses to juvenile
crime and delinquency, including collaborative ways to address local
problems of juvenile crime; and (b) demonstrate a collaborative and
integrated approach for implementing a system of swift, certain,
graduated responses, and appropriate sanctions for at-risk youth and
juvenile offenders.

749.22. To be eligible for this grant, each county shall be
required to establish a multiagency juvenile justice coordinating
council that shall develop and implement a continuum of county-based
responses to juvenile crime. The coordinating councils shall, at a
minimum, include the chief probation officer, as chair, and one
representative each from the district attorney's office, the public
defender's office, the sheriff's department, the board of
supervisors, the department of social services, the department of
mental health, a community-based drug and alcohol program, a city
police department, the county office of education or a school
district, and an at-large community representative. In order to carry
out its duties pursuant to this section, a coordinating council
shall also include representatives from nonprofit community-based
organizations providing services to minors. The board of supervisors
shall be informed of community-based organizations participating on a
coordinating council. The coordinating councils shall develop a
comprehensive, multiagency plan that identifies the resources and
strategies for providing an effective continuum of responses for the
prevention, intervention, supervision, treatment, and incarceration
of male and female juvenile offenders, including strategies to
develop and implement locally based or regionally based out-of-home
placement options for youths who are persons described in Section
602. Counties may utilize community punishment plans developed
pursuant to grants awarded from funds included in the 1995 Budget Act
to the extent the plans address juvenile crime and the juvenile
justice system or local action plans previously developed for this
program. The plan shall include, but not be limited to, the following
components:
(a) An assessment of existing law enforcement, probation,
education, mental health, health, social services, drug and alcohol
and youth services resources which specifically target at-risk
juveniles, juvenile offenders, and their families.
(b) An identification and prioritization of the neighborhoods,
schools, and other areas in the community that face a significant
public safety risk from juvenile crime, such as gang activity,
daylight burglary, late-night robbery, vandalism, truancy, controlled
substance sales, firearm-related violence, and juvenile alcohol use
within the council's jurisdiction.
(c) A local action plan (LAP) for improving and marshaling the
resources set forth in subdivision (a) to reduce the incidence of
juvenile crime and delinquency in the areas targeted pursuant to
subdivision (b) and the greater community. The councils shall prepare
their plans to maximize the provision of collaborative and
integrated services of all the resources set forth in subdivision
(a), and shall provide specified strategies for all elements of
response, including prevention, intervention, suppression, and
incapacitation, to provide a continuum for addressing the identified
male and female juvenile crime problem, and strategies to develop and
implement locally based or regionally based out-of-home placement
options for youths who are persons described in Section 602.
(d) Develop information and intelligence-sharing systems to ensure
that county actions are fully coordinated, and to provide data for
measuring the success of the grantee in achieving its goals. The plan
shall develop goals related to the outcome measures that shall be
used to determine the effectiveness of the program.
(e) Identify outcome measures which shall include, but not be
limited to, the following:
(1) The rate of juvenile arrests.
(2) The rate of successful completion of probation.
(3) The rate of successful completion of restitution and
court-ordered community service responsibilities.

749.23. The Board of Corrections shall award grants that provide
funding for three years. Funding shall be used to supplement, rather
than supplant, existing programs and grants may be awarded to any
county including those counties currently receiving funds pursuant to
this article. Grant funds shall be used for programs that are
identified in the local action plan as part of a continuum of
responses to reduce juvenile crime and delinquency. No grant shall be
awarded unless the applicant makes available resources in an amount
equal to at least 25 percent of the amount of the grant. Resources
may include in-kind contributions from participating agencies. In
awarding grants, priority shall be given to those proposals which
include additional funding that exceeds 25 percent of the amount of
the grant. In awarding grants, priority shall also be given to
programs in counties where the population exceeds 500,000 and the
rate of violent crime exceeds the state average.

749.24. The Board of Corrections shall establish minimum standards,
funding schedules, and procedures for awarding grants, which shall
take into consideration, but not be limited to, all of the following:
(a) Size of the eligible high-risk youth population.
(b) Demonstrated ability to administer the program.
(c) Demonstrated ability to provide and develop a continuum of
responses to juvenile crime and delinquency that includes prevention,
intervention, diversion, suppression, and incapacitation.
(d) Demonstrated ability to implement a plan that provides a
collaborative and integrated approach to juvenile crime and
delinquency.
(e) Demonstrated history of maximizing federal, state, local, and
private funding sources.
(f) Demonstrated efforts to implement a multicounty juvenile
justice program.
(g) Likelihood that the program will continue to operate after
state grant funding ends.

749.25. The Board of Corrections may award up to a total of two
million dollars ($2,000,000) statewide, in individual grants not
exceeding one hundred and fifty thousand dollars ($150,000), on a
competitive basis to counties to assist in establishing a multiagency
coordinating group or developing a local action plan.

749.26. The Board of Corrections shall create an evaluation design
for the Juvenile Crime Enforcement and Accountability Challenge Grant
Program that will assess the effectiveness of the program. For
grants awarded before July 1, 1998, the board shall develop an
interim report to be submitted to the Legislature on or before March
1, 1999, and a final analysis of the grant program in a report to be
submitted to the Legislature on or before March 1, 2001. For grants
awarded after July 1, 1998, the board shall develop an interim report
to be submitted to the Legislature on or before March 1, 2001, and a
final analysis of the grant program in a report to be submitted to
the Legislature on or before March 1, 2003.

749.27. Funding for the Juvenile Crime Enforcement and
Accountability Challenge Grant Program for grant awards made before
July 1, 1998, shall be provided from the amount appropriated in Item
5430-101-0001 of the Budget Act of 1996. Up to 5 percent of the
amount appropriated in Item 5430-101-0001 of the Budget Act of 1996
shall be transferred upon the approval of the Director of Finance, to
Item 5430-001-0001 for expenditure as necessary for the board to
administer this program, including technical assistance to counties
and the development of an evaluation component.