Christine Kehoe
- Democratic
Author
Existing law provides for various services and programs to assist victims of crime, including grants to proposed and existing child sexual exploitation and child abuse victim counseling centers and prevention programs, and the establishment of a resource center to operate a statewide, toll-free information service consisting of legal information for crime victims and providers of services to crime victims. This bill would authorize the Cities of San Diego and Anaheim, and the Counties of Alameda and Sonoma, until January 1, 2014, to establish a multiagency, multidisciplinary family justice center to assist victims of domestic violence, officer-involved domestic violence, sexual assault, elder or dependent adult abuse, stalking, cyberstalking, cyberbullying, and human trafficking, to ensure that victims of abuse are able to access all needed services in one location and to enhance victim safety, increase offender accountability, and improve access to services for victims of crime, as provided. The bill would permit the family justice centers to be staffed by law enforcement, medical, social service, and child welfare personnel, among others. This bill would require each family justice center to consult with community-based crime victim agencies, survivors of violence and abuse, and their advocates in the operation of the family justice center and to develop a procedure for input, feedback, and evaluation of the family justice center. The bill would prohibit victims of crime from being denied services at a family justice center on the grounds of criminal history and would prohibit a criminal history search from being conducted without the victim's written consent, unless the criminal history search is pursuant to an active criminal investigation. The bill would require each family justice center to develop policies and procedures to ensure coordinated services are provided and to enhance the safety of victims and professionals at the family justice centers, as specified. The bill would require each family justice center to maintain an informed consent policy and to be in compliance with all state and federal laws protecting the confidentiality of the types of information and documents that may be in a victim's file. The bill would require the National Family Justice Center Alliance, with private funds, to contract with an independent organization to conduct an evaluation and prepare a report on the family justice centers, as specified. The bill would require the independent organization to submit the report to the Office of Privacy Protection and the National Family Justice Center Alliance for review and comment, and then submit the report to the Assembly Committee on Judiciary, the Senate Committee on Judiciary, the Assembly Committee on Public Safety, and the Senate Committee on Public Safety, no later than January 1, 2013. This bill would allow the National Family Justice Center Alliance to submit recommendations for statewide legislation, best practices, and model policies and procedures in its comments to the independent evaluation organization. The bill would require each family justice center to maintain a formal training program with mandatory training for all staff members, volunteers, and agency professionals, as specified.
Approved by the Governor.
Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 262, Statutes of 2011.
Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 34. Noes 0. Page 2017.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.
Ordered to special consent calendar.
Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 2345.) Ordered to the Senate.
In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar.
Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading.
From committee: Do pass as amended. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (June 28).
From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 21). Re-referred to Com. on JUD.
From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S.
In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk.
Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 1218.) Ordered to the Assembly.
Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading.
From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 9. Noes 0. Page 1119.) (May 26).
Set for hearing May 26 in APPR. pending receipt.
Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading.
From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 5. Noes 0. Page 950.) (May 10).
From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on JUD.
Set for hearing May 10.
(Corrected April 27.)
From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on JUD.
Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on JUD.
From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 6. Noes 0. Page 495.) (March 29).
Set for hearing March 29.
From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 20.
Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print.
| Bill Text Versions | Format |
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| SB557 | HTML |
| 02/17/11 - Introduced | |
| 04/05/11 - Amended Senate | |
| 04/25/11 - Amended Senate | |
| 05/02/11 - Amended Senate | |
| 05/17/11 - Amended Senate | |
| 05/27/11 - Amended Senate | |
| 06/15/11 - Amended Assembly | |
| 07/07/11 - Amended Assembly | |
| 08/24/11 - Enrolled | |
| 09/06/11 - Chaptered |
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