AB 2673: Sacramento Youth Firearm Prevention Pilot Program.

Existing law subjects a minor between 12 and 17 years of age, inclusive, who violates any federal, state, or local law or ordinance to, and a minor under 12 years of age who is alleged to have committed specified serious offenses to, the jurisdiction of the juvenile court, which may adjudge the minor to be a ward of the court. Existing law authorizes the court to place a minor on probation, as specified. Existing law authorizes the juvenile court to adjudge the minor a ward of the court if the minor fails to comply with the juvenile courts conditions of probation.

This bill would authorize the County of Sacramento to establish the Sacramento Youth Firearm Prevention Pilot Program to require eligible youth to participate in a gun violence prevention class as part of their probation. The bill would require the services a youth is ordered to participate in under this program to be evidence based or research supported, trauma informed, culturally relevant, developmentally appropriate, and focused on public health. The bill would authorize the court to revoke a youths probation for failure to enroll in, participate in, or complete a program under these provisions, except for good cause. The bill would require the court to determine the youths ability to pay for the program, and would authorize the court to develop a sliding fee schedule for the program based on the youths ability to pay. The bill would require the county to collect specified data for participants in the program and would require the county to prepare and provide an outcome assessment of the program, as specified, to the Assembly Committee on Public Safety and the Senate Committee on Public Safety by January 1, 2030. The bill would repeal these provisions on January 1, 2031.

This bill would make legislative findings and declarations as to the necessity of a special statute for the County of Sacramento.