Legislative Platform 2005
The mission of the Chief Probation Officers of California (CPOC) counties is to provide leadership in the mobilization, coordination, and implementation of Probation programs and provide for public protection including detention and treatment, victim services and the prevention of crime and delinquency; and to insure the provision of quality investigations and supervision of offenders for the Courts. In support of this mission CPOC will pursue the following legislative goals in the 2005 Session of the California Legislature:
Tier 1 - Maintain funding and flexibility for Public Safety Programs with special emphasis on: · Juvenile Justice Crime Prevention Act Funds.
- Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF) - direct funding of probation programs.
- Restore state funding for the training (STC) of probation and custodial officers.
- Proposition 36 drug treatment and supervision.
Tier 2 - Develop and support legislation to:
- Provide incentives for collection of court-ordered financial obligations.
- Remove guns from high-risk probationers.
- Authorize continuous electronic monitoring programs and Global Positioning Systems.
- Eliminate the acceptance of new group home programs, facility expansions or level change based upon the recommendation of the "primary placing county".
- Implement the Probation Services Task Force recommendations.
- Direct state funds to support Adult Crime Prevention Probation Services.
- Reform worker's compensation standards for deputized probation personnel.
- Direct state funds for the development of pilot restorative justice programs for adults and juveniles (including intervention and prevention programs).
- Extend sunset date on the Cal-ID $1.00 fee.
- Clarify that contracts or grants made by local juvenile justice coordinating councils would not violate statutory conflict of interest laws except when certain conditions are met.
- Exempt PC 830.5 peace officers from the provisions of the Meyers Milias Brown Act as it applies to Public Employee Review Board (PERB).
