TO: Board of Supervisors
FROM: Amanda Gibbs, Chief Probation Officer
REPORT BY: Ferlyn Buenafe, Probation Administrative Manager
SUBJECT: Agreement with RDA Consulting
RECOMMENDATION
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Approve and authorize Agreement No. 250275B with RDA Consulting, SPC to develop the County's Realignment Annual Plan, an annual requirement to be submitted to the State under Assembly Bill 109 (Fiscal Impact: $50,000 Expense; Realignment Special Revenue Funds; Budgeted; Discretionary).
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BACKGROUND
The Public Safety Realignment Act (Assembly Bill 109) was signed into law by the Governor on April 5, 2011, and amended by Assembly Bill 117 on June 30, 2011. This legislation specifies new responsibilities for managing adult offenders in California and obligates counties to develop and recommend a Realignment Plan through the Napa County Community Corrections Partnership (CCP). The CCP is a group created in connection with prior criminal justice legislation and oversees the expenditure of funds received by the State.
To allocate Napa County's portion of annual state revenues, the CCP develops program and funding recommendations. These recommendations are voted upon the CCP Executive Committee. CCP funded programs focus on public safety, reducing recidivism, and offender rehabilitation.
The CCP will provide an updated Annual Plan that outlines how local communities will work to address overcrowding in the State's prisons and further assist in alleviating the State's budgetary crisis. Specifically, AB 109 shifted the responsibility for supervising specified groups - nonviolent, nonserious, non-sex offenders, and post-release community supervision - of lower level justice-involved individuals (both those incarcerated and on parole) from the State's Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) to counties.
Counties have a responsibility to provide an updated Annual Plan that reports on work completed and shares plans for priorities to be addressed in the upcoming year a...
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