AB 943: Corrections: population data.

Existing law establishes the state prisons under the jurisdiction of the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. Existing law requires the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to provide operation and fiscal information to the Joint Legislative Budget Committee, including, among other things, data regarding the total expenditures and average daily population for each adult institution.

This bill would require the department to prepare and publish monthly demographic data, based on voluntary self-identification information from people admitted, in custody, and released and paroled, disaggregated by race and ethnicity, as specified. The bill would require, beginning January 1, 2025, the department to make the data publicly available on the departments internet website via the Offender Data Points dashboard.