PUBLIC PROTECTION COMMITTEE
Meeting Date: February 18, 2025
Subject: Appointments to the Community Corrections Partnership
Submitted For: Esa Ehmen-Krause, Chair, Community Corrections Partnership
Department: Probation
Contact: Enid Mendoza, CCP Staff
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 followi...
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