Criminal Justice Realignment Evaluation
Cal. PEN § 13400
California Statutes
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a) The Legislative Analyst’s Office shall prepare a report, to be submitted to the Legislature on June 30, 2026, evaluating the results of Assembly Bill of the 2011–12 Regular Session over the previous years, including, but not limited to, the following:
(1) The amount of funding received per county and how that funding was allocated, including, but not limited to, the following categories: (
A) Funding received by department or agency. (
B) All types of facilities construction. (
C) The number and type of additional personnel. (
D) Rehabilitative programming. (
E) Any other services.
(2) Information on sentencing practices, including the use of straight sentencing, split sentencing, probation, diversion, and any other alternatives to custody.
(3) The impact on the county jail population as based on changes to the average monthly jail population, whether there were changes in jail release policies, and whether the county jail was under any court-ordered population cap.
(4) Information on postrelease community supervision practices, including caseload of probation officers, responses to supervision violations, including describing the sanctions used and particularly the use of flash incarceration, and programming and services offered.
(5) Recidivism outcomes, as defined by rearrest and reconviction rates after release from custody for offenders sentenced under subdivision (
h) of
Section 1170, and those released on postrelease community supervision. (
b) The report may be based on data from every county, or alternatively, a multicounty study using data from at least counties representative of the state. (c)
(1) A report to be submitted pursuant to subdivision (
a) shall be submitted in compliance with
Section of the Government Code.
(2) Pursuant to
Section 10231.5 of the Government Code, this
chapter is repealed on June 30, 2030.