Section 13861 Of Chapter 7. Suppression Of Drug Abuse In Schools From California Penal Code >> Title 6. >> Part 4. >> Chapter 7.
13861
. There is hereby created in the Office of Emergency Services
the Suppression of Drug Abuse in Schools Program. All funds made
available to the Office of Emergency Services for the purposes of
this chapter shall be administered and disbursed by the Director of
Emergency Services in consultation with the State Suppression of Drug
Abuse in Schools Advisory Committee established pursuant to Section
13863.
(a) The Director of Emergency Services, in consultation with the
State Suppression of Drug Abuse in Schools Advisory Committee, is
authorized to allocate and award funds to local law enforcement
agencies and public schools jointly working to develop drug abuse
prevention and drug trafficking suppression programs in substantial
compliance with the policies and criteria set forth in Sections 13862
and 13863.
(b) The allocation and award of funds shall be made upon the joint
application by the chief law enforcement officer of the coapplicant
law enforcement agency and approved by the law enforcement agency's
legislative body and the superintendent and board of the school
district coapplicant. The joint application of the law enforcement
agency and the school district shall be submitted for review to the
Local Suppression of Drug Abuse in Schools Advisory Committee
established pursuant to paragraph (4) of subdivision (a) of Section
13862. After review, the application shall be submitted to the Office
of Emergency Services. Funds disbursed under this chapter may
enhance but shall not supplant local funds that would, in the absence
of the Suppression of Drug Abuse in Schools Program, be made
available to suppress and prevent drug abuse among schoolage children
and to curtail drug trafficking in and around school areas.
(c) The coapplicant local law enforcement agency and the
coapplicant school district may enter into interagency agreements
between themselves which will allow the management and fiscal tasks
created pursuant to this chapter and assigned to both the law
enforcement agency and the school district to be performed by only
one of them.
(d) Within 90 days of the effective date of this chapter, the
Director of Emergency Services, in consultation with the State
Suppression of Drug Abuse in Schools Advisory Committee established
pursuant to Section 13863, shall prepare and issue administrative
guidelines and procedures for the Suppression of Drug Abuse in
Schools Program consistent with this chapter. In addition to all
other formal requirements that may apply to the enactment of these
guidelines and procedures, a complete and final draft shall be
submitted within 60 days of the effective date of this chapter to the
Chairpersons of the Committee on Criminal Law and Public Safety of
the Assembly and the Judiciary Committee of the Senate of the
California Legislature.