Article 1.2. Contra Costa County Marshal/sheriff Consolidation of California Government Code >> Division 2. >> Title 3. >> Part 3. >> Chapter 2. >> Article 1.2.

This article shall be known and may be cited as the Contra Costa County Court Services Consolidation Act of 1988.

There is a court security bureau within the Contra Costa County Sheriff's Department to serve the superior court. The relationship between the sheriff's department and the court security bureau shall be similar to that which exists between the Sheriff's Department of Contra Costa County and certain cities in the county that contract for police services.

There is a Court Security Oversight Committee consisting of five superior court judges appointed by the presiding judge. The duties of the committee shall be those prescribed by this article, and include, but are not limited to, the following:
  (a) To approve all transfers out of and into the court security bureau.
  (b) To approve staffing levels and the recommended budget prior to submission to the Judicial Council.
  (c) To approve security measures and plans prepared by the sheriff, through the court security bureau commander.
  (d) Notwithstanding any other provisions of law, the sheriff shall provide bailiffing, court security, and prisoner holding in the Superior Court of Contra Costa County.

(a) The sheriff shall be the appointing authority for all court security bureau positions and employees.
  (b) The selection, appointment, and removal of management heads of the court security bureau shall be made by a majority vote of the superior court judges of Contra Costa County from a list of qualified lieutenants submitted by the sheriff.

(a) All personnel of the marshal's office who are assigned to court services on the operative date of this section shall become members of the court security bureau at their existing salaries and benefits. Permanent employees presently holding the rank of deputy or sergeant, respectively, in the marshal's office shall become deputy sheriffs or sheriff's sergeants upon the operative date of this section.
  (b) Sworn personnel described in subdivision (a) may be transferred to another position in the sheriff's office at the same or an equivalent classification, but shall not be involuntarily transferred out of court services.
  (c) Permanent employees of the sheriff's office assigned to court services on the operative date of this section and permanent employees of the marshal's office on the operative date of this section shall be deemed qualified for employment and retention in the Sheriff's Department of Contra Costa County. Probationary employees of the sheriff's department assigned to court services on the operative date of this section and probationary employees of the marshal's office on the operative date of this section shall retain their probationary status and rights, and shall not be required to start a new probationary period.
  (d) For personnel of the sheriff's office assigned to court services on the operative date of this section and personnel of the marshal's office on the operative date of this section, all county service shall be counted toward county seniority, and all time spent in the same classification, and all time spent in the equivalent or higher classification shall be counted toward classification seniority. All county seniority shall be credited as departmental seniority. For layoff and displacement purposes all covered service in the sheriff's department and marshal's office shall be counted equally, and the County's Personnel Management Regulations and other governing county ordinances and resolutions shall determine the class, county, and departmental seniority dates, the seniority and layoff order, and displacement rights of all employees.
  (e) No employee of the sheriff's office assigned to court services on the operative date of this section or employee of the marshal's office on the operative date of this section shall lose peace officer status or be demoted or otherwise adversely affected by the consolidation of court services accomplished by this section. Peace Officer Standards and Training certificates held on the operative date of this section by employees of the Marshal's Department of Contra Costa County and the Sheriff's Department of Contra Costa County shall be considered the same for purposes of this section.

(a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this article, the sheriff through the court security bureau commander shall make all transfers within the court security bureau consistent with existing personnel policies of the sheriff, memoranda of understanding, if any, and other county personnel management rules and regulations.
  (b) A deputy marshal or deputy marshal sergeant on the operative date of this section who transfers out of the court security bureau to another division of the sheriff's office and subsequently fails to meet the employment standards of the other division may be transferred back to the court security bureau at the sole discretion of the sheriff.

An employee of the sheriff's office who desires to transfer into the office of court services shall make application through the appropriate division to the court security bureau commander. That employee, if approved by the Court Security Oversight Committee for transfer to the court security bureau, shall execute an agreement to serve in the court security bureau for a minimum term of three years.

Since the sheriff's department previously required each of its deputies to serve on its jail detention staff, and a deputy was permitted to credit time spent as a superior court bailiff prior to January 5, 1987, in lieu of all or part of this jail requirement, employees of the marshal's office on the operative date of this section shall be required to serve on the jail staff only if they transfer out of the court security bureau. In addition, those employees shall receive day-for-day credit on the jail requirement for time spent prior to the operative date of this section in bailiff-related services in the municipal court to the same extent as sheriff's deputies receive such credit for time spent in bailiff-related services in the superior court. The purpose of this section is to provide equality of treatment for those who have provided equivalent service in the municipal and superior courts.

All sworn permanent employees subsequently assigned to the court security bureau shall be required to meet those requirements of the California Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training imposed on all marshal's departments in California.