COMMUNITY CORRECTIONS PARTNERSHIP - CCP EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
Meeting Date: December 20, 2024
Subject: Appointments to the Community Corrections Partnership
Presenter: Enid Mendoza, CCP Staff
Contact: Enid.Mendoza@cao.cccounty.us
Referral History:
In 2011, the California Legislature passed Assembly Bill 109 (Chapter 15, Statutes of 2011) which transferred responsibility for supervising certain lower-level inmates and parolees from the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to counties. Assembly Bill 109 (AB 109) realigned three major areas of the criminal justice system.
On a prospective basis, the legislation: (1) transferred the location of incarceration for lower-level offenders (specified nonviolent, non-serious, non-sex offenders) from state prison to local county jail and provides for an expanded role for post-release supervision for these offenders; (2) transferred responsibility for post-release supervision of lower-level offenders (those released from prison after having served a sentence for a non-violent, non-serious, and non-sex offense) from the state to the county level by creating a new category of supervision called Post-Release Community Supervision (PRCS); and (3) transferred the custody responsibility for parole and PRCS revocations to local jail, administered by county sheriffs.
AB109 also created a local Community Corrections Partnership (CCP), and an Executive Committee, to (1) advise the Probation Department on the development and implementation of a “Community Corrections Program,” as provided for in the Community Corrections Performance Act of 2009 (California Penal Code Sections 1228 through 1233.7); and (2) to recommend a “local plan” to the Board of Supervisors for the implementation of the 2011 Public Safety Realignment, as provided for in Section 1230.1 of the Penal Code.
The membership of the Community Corrections Partnership is composed of ex-officio and
appointed members with the following composition, pursuant to Penal Code § 1230(b)(2) et seq:
Ex-Officio Members
1. Chief Probation Officer (Chair);
2. Presiding Judge (or designee);
3. District Attorney;
4. Public Defender;
5. Sheriff;
6. Director of the County department of social service;
7. Director of the County department of mental health;
8. Director of the County department of employment;
9. Director of the County alcohol and substance abuse programs;
10. Director of the County Office of Education;
Appointed Members (appointed by the Board of Supervisors)
11. County Supervisor, County Administrative Officer, or designee of the Board of Supervisors;
12. Chief of Police;
13. A representative of a community-based organization with experience in rehabilitation services for criminal offenders; and
14. A representative of crime victims.
Referral Update:
Appointed member terms on the Partnership are annual based on a calendar year. County Administrator Monica Nino, or her designee, will continue to serve as the County Administrative Officer designee. The Chief of Police seat is typically voted on by the Police Chiefs during a monthly meeting at the beginning of each calendar year. City of Pittsburg Police Chief, Steve Albanese, will continue with the appointment, pending any changes of assignment from the Contra Costa Police Chiefs.
In 2024, the County received six (6) applicants interested in serving on the Community Corrections Partnership. None of the applicants met the requirements of the CBO representative or victims’ representative seats and were informed of their ineligibility via an email letter from the County Administrator’s Office. The applicants were: Alen Nakenya, Sherina Criswell, Keycha Gallon, Kalaya Jones, Janelle Lafrades, and Moses Sullivan.
The County Administrator’s Office reached out to the active CBO representative, Pat Mims, and victims’ representative, Shannon Mahoney for interest in continuing to serve on the Partnership in 2025. Both graciously confirmed the desire to continue to serve through December 31, 2025.
Recommendation(s)/Next Step(s):
Reappoint Pat Mims to the Community-Based Representative seat and Shannon Mahoney to the Victims’ Representative seats on the Community Corrections Partnership for the terms January 1, 2025 through December 31, 2025.
Fiscal Impact (if any):
There is not fiscal impact.