20423.6
. (a) "Local safety member" also includes local prosecutors,
local public defenders, and local public defender investigators.
(b) For purposes of this part, "local prosecutor" means any one of
the following:
(1) A county officer or employee who meets all of the following
criteria:
(A) He or she is or, on or after January 1, 2002, was employed in
the office of the district attorney.
(B) His or her job classification is or, on or after January 1,
2002, was district attorney, deputy district attorney, chief deputy
district attorney, senior deputy district attorney, assistant
district attorney, chief assistant district attorney, senior
assistant district attorney, or any other similar classification or
title.
(C) His or her effective date of retirement is on or after the
date this section becomes applicable to the member's contracting
agency as provided in subdivision (g).
(2) A county officer or employee who meets all of the following
criteria:
(A) He or she was employed in the office of a district attorney
prior to the date the local child support agency transitioned from
the district attorney to a new county department, as specified in
Section 17304 of the Family Code.
(B) His or her job classification was district attorney, deputy
district attorney, chief deputy district attorney, senior deputy
district attorney, assistant district attorney, chief assistant
district attorney, senior assistant district attorney, or any other
similar classification or title.
(C) He or she is or, on or after January 1, 2002, was an attorney
in a local child support agency, as defined in subdivision (h) of
Section 17000 of the Family Code, with no break in service between
employment by a district attorney and the local child support agency.
(D) His or her effective date of retirement is on or after the
date this section becomes applicable to the member's contracting
agency as provided in subdivision (g).
(3) A city officer or employee who meets all of the following
criteria:
(A) He or she is or, on or after January 1, 2002, was employed in
the office of the city attorney.
(B) He or she is or, on or after January 1, 2002, was primarily
engaged in the active enforcement of criminal laws within any court
operating in a county.
(C) His or her job classification is or, on or after January 1,
2002, was city attorney, deputy city attorney, chief deputy city
attorney, assistant city attorney, chief assistant city attorney, or
any other similar classification or title.
(D) His or her effective date of retirement is on or after the
date this section becomes applicable to the member's contracting
agency as provided in subdivision (g).
(c) For purposes of this part, "local public defender" means a
city or county officer or employee who meets all of the following
criteria:
(1) He or she is or, on or after January 1, 2002, was employed in
the office of the public defender, the alternate public defender, or
any similar office title.
(2) His or her job classification is or, on or after January 1,
2002, was public defender, deputy public defender, chief deputy
public defender, senior deputy public defender, assistant public
defender, chief assistant public defender, senior assistant public
defender, or any other similar classification or title.
(3) His or her effective date of retirement is on or after the
date this section becomes applicable to the member's contracting
agency as provided in subdivision (g).
(d) For purposes of this part, "local public defender investigator"
means a city or county officer or employee who meets all of the
following criteria:
(1) He or she is or, on or after January 1, 2002, was employed in
the office of the public defender, the alternate public defender, or
any other similar office title.
(2) His or her job classification is or, on or after January 1,
2002, was inspector, investigator, detective, or any other similar
classification or title.
(3) His or her principal duties are or, on or after January 1,
2002, were to investigate crime and criminal cases.
(4) His or her effective date of retirement is on or after the
date this section becomes applicable to the member's contracting
agency as provided in subdivision (g).
(e) Notwithstanding Section 20890, past local miscellaneous
service performed by a local prosecutor, local public defender, or
local public defender investigator who becomes a local safety member
pursuant to this section shall be converted to local safety service
if the past service was rendered in a position that has subsequently
been reclassified as a safety position pursuant to this section. For
local prosecutors described in paragraph (2) of subdivision (b),
service in the office of a district attorney and a local child
support agency shall be considered service for the district attorney
for the purposes of this section. Any unfunded liability resulting
from this section shall be paid by the employer.
(f) Notwithstanding any other provision of this part or any
provision of the contracting agency's contract with the board, local
prosecutors, local public defenders, and local public defender
investigators shall be subject to the benefit formula contained in
Section 21362, 21363, or 21363.1, or any other benefit formula
applicable to local safety members that does not provide benefits
greater than those benefits provided under Section 21363.1, as
designated in the contract amendment or express contract provision
described in subdivision (g).
(g) This section shall not apply to any officers and employees of
a contracting agency or to the agency unless and until the
contracting agency elects to be subject to this section by amendment
to its contract with the board, made as provided in Section 20474, or
by express provision in its contract with the board. If a
contracting agency elects to be subject to this section, the
contracting agency shall include all local prosecutors, local public
defenders, and local public defender investigators described in this
section.
(h) This section does not apply to any officer or employee of a
contracting agency who dies prior to the date the contracting agency
elects to be subject to this section.