| | | | | | | | Agenda Item - 2.a.
City of Garden Grove
INTER-DEPARTMENT MEMORANDUM
| To: | Scott C. Stiles
| From: | Tom DaRe
| | Dept.: | City Manager
| Dept.: | Police
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Appropriation of Fiscal Year 2020-21 Public Safety Realignment and Post-release Community Supervision funds. (Action Item) | Date: | 5/11/2021 |
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| | | | | | | | OBJECTIVE
To obtain City Council approval to use funds allocated by the State for Public Safety Realignment and Post-Release Community Supervision, and to appropriate these funds for Fiscal Year 2020-21 budget. |
| | | | | | | | BACKGROUND
Assembly Bill 109, titled “2011 Realignment Legislation Addressing Public Safety,” became effective on July 1, 2011, and provided for the enactment of the “2011 Postrelease Community Supervision Act” (herein after referred to as “AB109”). AB109 requires that certain offenders be released into the community under the supervision of a designated county agency (Orange County Probation).
Prior to this legislation, these offenders would have either remained incarcerated in State prison or been released under the supervision of State Parole. AB109 shifted the burden of “supervision” from the State to local law enforcement agencies. |
| | | | | | | | DISCUSSION
The City of Garden Grove (City) received an allocation of approximately $147,639 in FY 2020-21 state AB109 funding for local law enforcement agencies. A portion of each years’ allocation is released on a quarterly basis to the City, and the City is now in receipt of the entire allocated amount. This funding provides additional resources for local law enforcement services, and supplanting is prohibited by statute. |
| | | | | | | | FINANCIAL IMPACT
Using AB109 funds to supplement funding for public safety-related services creates no impact on the City’s General Fund. |
| | | | | | | | RECOMMENDATION
It is recommended that the City Council:
- Authorize the appropriation of Fiscal Year 2020-21 Public Safety Realignment and Post-Release Community Supervision funds to the Police Department for Fiscal Year 2020-21 budget.
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