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SB 1202: Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation: reports: assaults.

  • Session Year: 2023-2024
  • House: Senate

Current Status:

Failed

(2024-08-15: August 15 hearing: Held in committee and under submission.)

Introduced

First Committee Review

First Chamber

Second Committee Review

Second Chamber

Enacted

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Existing law establishes the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation and sets forth its powers and duties regarding the administration of correctional facilities and the care and custody of inmates and wards. Existing law requires the department to establish a statewide policy on operational procedures for the handling of threats made by inmates or wards, and threats made by family members of inmates or wards, against department staff that includes methods to ensure that department staff members are advised of those threats, as specified, and requires those threats to be thoroughly investigated.

This bill would require the department to make a report regarding assaults, as defined, against employees, quarterly to all bargaining units at the department, and annually to the Legislature and the chairs of the Senate Committee on Budget and Fiscal Review and the Assembly Committee on Budget. The bill would require the reports to appropriately protect the confidentiality of patients, inmates, and employees and to include certain information, including the date of the assault and the name of the facility where the incident occurred.

The California Constitution establishes the State Personnel Board and requires the board to, among other things, enforce the civil service statutes, prescribe probationary periods and classifications, adopt rules authorized by statute, and review disciplinary actions. Existing law establishes the Department of Human Resources (CalHR) and provides that, subject to the requirements of the California Constitution, it succeeds to and is vested with the duties, purposes, responsibilities, and jurisdiction exercised by the board as its designee with respect to the boards administrative and ministerial functions.This bill would require CalHR to make a quarterly report regarding assaults, as defined, against employees on or before January 30, 2026, and annually thereafter, to the Legislature and the chairs of the Senate Committee on Budget and Fiscal Review and the Assembly Committee on Budget with respect to assaults that occurred during the preceding calendar year. The bill would require that report to include certain information with respect to any assault that occurred during the previous reporting period, including the date of the assault and the job classification of any affected represented employee.Existing constitutional provisions require that a statute that limits the right of access to the meetings of public bodies or the writings of public officials and agencies be adopted with findings demonstrating the interest protected by the limitation and the need for protecting that interest.This bill would make legislative findings to that effect.

Discussed in Hearing

Senate Floor2MIN
May 21, 2024

Senate Floor

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Bill Author

Avatar: Josh Newman
Josh Newman

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