Section 49351 Of Article 5. Community Policing And Mentoring For School Safety Pilot Program From California Education Code >> Division 4. >> Title 2. >> Part 27. >> Chapter 8. >> Article 5.
49351
. (a) (1) The Community Policing and Mentoring for School
Safety Pilot Program is hereby established. The Community Policing
and Mentoring for School Safety Pilot Program shall be administered
by the State Department of Education for the purpose of reducing
juvenile crime and delinquency. The Superintendent of Public
Instruction shall award grants to the ABC Unified School District and
the Downey Unified School District to accomplish the goals set forth
in subdivision (b) of Section 49350.5.
(2) Programs funded pursuant to this article may include, but not
necessarily be limited to, all of the following methods of community
policing:
(A) Teaching conflict resolution classes.
(B) Teaching crime prevention classes.
(C) Operating afterschool programs.
(D) Provide mentoring.
(E) Patrolling the community that encompasses the school district
participating in the Community Policing and Mentoring for School
Safety Pilot Program.
(b) Each school district that receives a grant under this article
shall be required to establish a multiagency juvenile justice
coordinating council that shall develop and implement a continuum of
community-based responses to juvenile crime in the school setting.
(c) The coordinating councils established pursuant to subdivision
(b) shall, at a minimum, include the school district, law enforcement
agency, a volunteer police representative, parents, and at least two
community organizations. The coordinating councils shall develop a
comprehensive, multiagency plan that identifies resources and
strategies for providing an effective targeted community policing
plan, for activities relating to prevention, intervention,
supervision, and treatment of at-risk youths in school settings.