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. (a) Commencing July 1, 2012, there is hereby established the
Board of State and Community Corrections. The Board of State and
Community Corrections shall be an entity independent of the
Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. The Governor may
appoint an executive officer of the board, subject to Senate
confirmation, who shall hold the office at the pleasure of the
Governor. The executive officer shall be the administrative head of
the board and shall exercise all duties and functions necessary to
ensure that the responsibilities of the board are successfully
discharged. As of July 1, 2012, any references to the Board of
Corrections or the Corrections Standards Authority shall refer to the
Board of State and Community Corrections. As of that date, the
Corrections Standards Authority is abolished.
(b) The mission of the board shall include providing statewide
leadership, coordination, and technical assistance to promote
effective state and local efforts and partnerships in California's
adult and juvenile criminal justice system, including addressing gang
problems. This mission shall reflect the principle of aligning
fiscal policy and correctional practices, including, but not limited
to prevention, intervention, suppression, supervision, and
incapacitation, to promote a justice investment strategy that fits
each county and is consistent with the integrated statewide goal of
improved public safety through cost-effective, promising, and
evidence-based strategies for managing criminal justice populations.
(c) The board shall regularly seek advice from a balanced range of
stakeholders and subject matter experts on issues pertaining to
adult corrections, juvenile justice, and gang problems relevant to
its mission. Toward this end, the board shall seek to ensure that its
efforts (1) are systematically informed by experts and stakeholders
with the most specific knowledge concerning the subject matter, (2)
include the participation of those who must implement a board
decision and are impacted by a board decision, and (3) promote
collaboration and innovative problem solving consistent with the
mission of the board. The board may create special committees, with
the authority to establish working subgroups as necessary, in
furtherance of this subdivision to carry out specified tasks and to
submit its findings and recommendations from that effort to the
board.
(d) The board shall act as the supervisory board of the state
planning agency pursuant to federal acts. It shall annually review
and approve, or review, revise, and approve, the comprehensive state
plan for the improvement of criminal justice and delinquency and gang
prevention activities throughout the state, shall establish
priorities for the use of funds as are available pursuant to federal
acts, and shall approve the expenditure of all funds pursuant to such
plans or federal acts, provided that the approval of those
expenditures may be granted to single projects or to groups of
projects.
(e) It is the intent of the Legislature that any statutory
authority conferred on the Corrections Standards Authority or the
previously abolished Board of Corrections shall apply to the Board of
State and Community Corrections on and after July 1, 2012, unless
expressly repealed by the act which added this section. The Board of
State and Community Corrections is the successor to the Corrections
Standards Authority, and as of July 1, 2012, is vested with all of
the authority's rights, powers, authority, and duties, unless
specifically repealed by this act.
(f) For purposes of this chapter, "federal acts" means Subchapter
V of Chapter 46 of the federal Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets
Act of 1968 (Public Law 90-351, 82 Stat. 197; 42 U.S.C. Sec. 3750 et
seq.), the federal Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act
of 1974 (42 U.S.C. Sec. 5601 et seq.), and any act or acts amendatory
or supplemental thereto.