Matthew is honest, diligent and relentless. Enable early discharge from probation and parole for successfully meeting probations requirements for a given time period. Elections Code section 18541 expands prohibited activities within 100 feet of a polling place to now include obstructing ingress, egress, and parking. New penalties for hate crimes at schools. Many of the new laws are Problem: Individuals who experience incarceration are more likely to have had lower incomes, lacked health care coverage, and experienced housing insecurity. Any aggravating circumstances must be found true in a separate proceeding after guilt is found. Solutions: Link people up with benefits that increase stability. She agrees this bill is needed because rapists who are convicted under spousal rape law may face less severe sentencing. Jan. This website is designed for general information only. Siding with the CDCR, Judge Mesiwala found that the prosecutors lacked standing to challenge the regulations. In this years guide to winnable criminal justice reforms, weve added a reference to caregiver and proximity laws and a new section Set people up to succeed upon release. Its work resulted in six laws that Gov. Until then, individuals forced to wear electronic monitors should not be required to pay for those devices nor be fined or re-incarcerated for their inability to pay monitoring fees. Felony probationers accused of a violation are entitled to an O.R. More information: See The Bail Projects After Cash Bail, the Pretrial Justice Institutes website, the Criminal Justice Policy Program at Harvard Law Schools Moving Beyond Money, and Critical Resistance & Community Justice Exchanges On the Road to Freedom. Prohibit the revocation of probation or parole for a violation that does not result in a new conviction. In fact, many of the recent criminal justice reforms in California have been focused on allowing judges to use their discretion to strike previously mandatory enhancements. Where counties rely on these fees for revenue, courts are incentivized to impose unnecessary or excessive probation sentences. Criminal justice reforms frequently exclude people who have been convicted of violent or sex offenses. Weve got ideas on how to change this. Strong and determined advocate who will never let his clients down. More information: See the Free to Drive Coalitions state-by-state analysis, and the Legal Aid Justice Centers 2017 report Driven By Dollars: A State-By-State Analysis of Drivers License Suspension Laws for Failure to Pay Court Debt. Solutions: Legislatures can pass laws requiring a criminal conviction for permanent forfeiture, creating a presumption that low-value seizures are not connected to a crime and therefore not eligible for forfeiture, ending participation in the federal equitable sharing program, creating a right to court-appointed counsel in forfeiture cases, and requiring proceeds from forfeitures to instead go to the states general fund or a fund dedicated to community development, education, or crime victim compensation. Constructive debate is good; mockery, taunting, and name calling is not. (4) A prospective juror's neighborhood. Problem: Most states charge people on probation a monthly fee, even though many are among the nations poorest. New California pay-to-play law taken to court. Moratoriums on building new, or expanding existing, facilities allow reforms to reduce incarceration to be prioritized over proposals that would worsen our nations mass incarceration epidemic. Legislation: Several examples of state and federal statutes are included in Families Against Mandatory Minimums (FAMM) Turning Off the Spigot. He is worth every dime! Unfortunately, rather than providing the video technology as an additional way for families to stay connected, private companies and sheriffs are working together to replace traditional in-person family visits with expensive, grainy computer chats. Prior to passage of this legislation, multiple counties had passed ordinances to address probation fees. (While this law only applied to contracts with state prisons, an ideal solution would also include local jail contracts.) Louisiana HB 249 (2017) requires inquiries be made into a persons ability to pay before imposing fines and fees or enforcing any penalties for failure to pay. 2542] to cases which are final. When discussions about exclusions come up in your reform fights, here are some helpful points to keep in mind: More information: See our report Reforms without Results: Why states should stop excluding violent offenses from criminal justice reforms for more information on the points above. Criminal justice reforms frequently exclude people who have been convicted of violent or sex offenses. Is the Five Cities Fire Authority's future in jeopardy? Lawmakers understandably prioritize consideration of those who have served their base sentence, any other enhancements, and are only serving time based on Section 11370.2 or Section 667.5(b) enhancements. All rights reserved. The law was passed in 2020 but went into effect January 1, 2022, for criminal trials. His compassion and caring for his clients ensure he will get the job done well. ), containing parallel amendments to sections 1170 and 1170.1, also were enacted into law. (11) Lack of employment or underemployment of the prospective juror or their family. Solutions: Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, and Texas should formally opt out of the federal automatic suspension law. In any case in which an emergency endangering the lives of inmates of a state, county, or city penal or correctional institution has occurred or is imminent, the person in charge of the institution For example, restrictions on associating with others and requirements to notify probation or parole officers before a change in address or employment have little to do with either public safety or rehabilitation. Additionally, some states allow community supervision to be revoked when a person is alleged to have violated or believed to be about to violate these or other terms of their supervision. For information about unemployment among formerly incarcerated people, see our publications Out of Prison & Out of Work and New data on formerly incarcerated peoples employment reveal labor market injustices. More information: See Ending Legal Bias Against Formerly Incarcerated People: Establishing Protected Legal Status, by the Haas Institute for a Fair and Inclusive Society (now the Othering & Belonging Institute), and Barred Businesss The Protected Campaign for information about the campaign to pass Ordinance 22-O-1748 in Atlanta. Winnable criminal justice reforms in 2023 | Prison Policy Jan. These laws bar more than twenty million people from jury service, reduce jury diversity by disproportionately excluding Black and Latinx people, and actually cause juries to deliberate less effectively. The U.S. Constitution guarantees legal counsel to individuals who are charged with a crime, but many states delegate this constitutional obligation to local governments, and then completely fail to hold local governments accountable when defendants are not provided competent defense counsel. Finally a court should impose a low term if trauma, youth or victimization contributed to the commission of the offense. Part 2 in New California laws for 2022 includes ethnic studies, probable cause, developmental services, student instructions, budget act, mental health services and more. A new law in California bans police officers from wearing uniforms that have camouflage or otherwise resemble military uniforms. These protections may include: Legislation and regulations: Illinois SB 2090 (2019) established a polling location at Cook County Jail and required election authorities and county jails to work together to facilitate absentee voting. Problem: In courthouses throughout the country, defendants are routinely denied the promise of a jury of their peers, thanks to a lack of racial diversity in jury boxes. The new rules are being disputed. In fact, studies have stated that drug overdose is the leading cause of death after release from prison, and the risk of death is significantly higher for women. Copyright 2023 MH Sub I, LLC. hbbd```b`@$#/`RD2AddR $}g`Kg i 4 Now only persons convicted of drug offenses involving minors who have priors are ineligible for probation, except in unusual cases. Clearly, this is a monumental job. More information: See our Prison Gerrymandering Project website. SACRAMENTO . Sections: 3000, 3375, 3376.1, 3377.2, and 3379Effective: April 1, 2023, Sections: 3000, and 3293Effective: April 1, 2023, Sections: 3000, and 3075.2Effective: December 20, 2022, Sections:3000, 3268, 3268.1, 3268.2, and 3268.3Effective: November 16, 2022, Sections:3000, 3269, 3269.1, 3269.2, 3269.3, 3269.4, and 3375.2Effective: November 14, 2022, Sections:3000, 3040.3, and 3378.2Effective: January 1, 2023, Sections:3000, 3054, 3054.1, 3054.2, 3054.3, 3054.4, 3054.5, 3054.6, 3054.7, 3054.8, and 3054.9Effective: January 1, 2023, Sections:Adopt 3486, 3486.1, 3486.2 and 3486.3Effective: October 20, 2022, Sections:Adopt 3498.1, and 3498.2; Amend 3043, and 3043.5Effective: October 13, 2022, Sections:Adopt 3392.1, 3392.2, 3392.3, 3392.4, 3392.5, 3392.6, 3392.7, 3392.8, 3392.9, 3392.10 and 3417; Amend 3391, and 3392Effective:September 29, 2022, Sections: Adopt 3040.1; Amend 3000, 3040, 3041, 3041.3, 3043.3, 3043.5, 3044, 3044.1, 3044.2, 3075.1, 3077.1, 3315, 3375, 3375.2, 3375.4, 3375.5, 3375.6, 3379; Repeal 3040.1, 3040.2Effective:August 31, 2022, Sections:3076, 3076.1, 3076.2, 3076.3, 3076.4, and 3076.5Effective: October 1, 2022, Sections:Amend 3043, 3043.2, 3043.3, 3043.4, 3043.5, 3043.6, 3044, 3045.1, 3043.7 [Renumbered to 3044.1], 3043.8 [Renumbered to 3044.2], 3047 [Renumbered to 3046.1]Effective: August 8, 2022, Sections: 3075.2, 3545, and 3754Effective: October 1, 2022, Sections:3261.2, 3261.3, 3261.5, 3261.6, and 3261.7Effective:July 1, 2022, Sections:3000, 3466, and 3468Effective:July 1, 2022, Sections:2449.1, 2449.4, 2449.5, 2449.30, 2449.32, 3490, 3491, 3492, 3495, 3496 and 3497Effective:February 28, 2022, Sections:3000, 3045, 3077.3, 3078.4, 3084, 3084.1, 3084.2, 3084.3, 3084.4, 3084.5, 3084.6, 3084.7, 3084.8, 3084.9, 3085, 3086, 3134.1, 3136, 3137, 3141, 3173.1, 3179, 3193, 3220.4, 3230, 3282, 3369.5, 3378.4, 3383, 3465, 3466, 3467, 3468, 3469, 3470, 3471, 3472, 3473, 3474, 3475, 3476, 3477, 3478, 3479, 3480, 3480.1, 3481, 3482, 3483, 3484, 3485, 3486, 3488, 3491, 3492, 3548, 3563, 3630, and 3723Effective:January 5, 2022, Sections:3000, 3006, 3044, 3133, 3190, 3314, 3315, and 3323Effective:December 20, 2021, Sections:3741, 3742, 3743, 3744, 3745, 3746, and 3748Effective:January 1, 2022, Sections:3000, 3323, 3336, 3338, 3341.9, 3375.3, 3375.4, and 3375.5Effective:January 1, 2022, Copyright 2023 California Department of Corrections & Rehabilitation, Back to Adult Institutions, Programs and Parole Regulations, California Code of Regulations, Title 15, Division 3, Chapter 1, Pending Changes to Department Regulations, Adopted Regulations for Controlled Substance Distribution, NCR 22-09 Controlled Substance Distribution, Adopted Regulations for California Out-of-State Correctional Facility Program, NCR 22-11 California Out-of-State Correctional Facility Program, Adopted Regulations for Authorized Personal Property, Adopted Regulations for Computer Voice Stress Analyzer, Adopted Regulations for Release Allowances, Adopted Regulations for Religious Personal Property, Adopted Regulations for Inmate Housing and Program (SNY/NDPF), NCR 21-13 Inmate Housing and Program (SNY/NDPF), Adopted Regulations for Standardized Testing for Assessing Adult Literacy, NCR 22-07 Standardized Testing for Assessing Adult Literacy, Adopted Regulations for Religious and Plant-Based Diet, NCR 21-11 Religious and Plant-Based Diets, Adopted Regulations for Staff Misconduct Allegations, Adopted Regulations for Youth Parole Eligible Date, Adopted Regulations for Employee Discipline, Adopted Regulations for Program and Credit Earning Revisions (MCCS/ISUDT), NCR 22-04 Program and Credit Earning Revisions (MCCS/ISUDT), Adopted Regulations for Recall of Commitment and Resentence Recommendation, NCR 21-04 Penal Code Section 1170.3 Recall and Resentence Recommendation, Adopted Regulations for Inmate Credit Earning, Adopted Regulations for Off-Duty Firearms, Adopted Regulations for Body Worn Cameras, Adopted Regulations for News and Non-News Media Access, Adopted Regulations for Disabled Veteran Business Enterprise, NCR 21-10 Disabled Veteran Business Enterprise, Adopted Regulations for Nonviolent Offender Parole Eligibility Process, NCR 21-07 Nonviolent Offender Parole Eligibility Process, Adopted Regulations for Inmate and Parolee Grievance and Appeal Process, NCR 21-08 Inmate and Parolee Grievances and Appeals Process, Adopted Regulations for Inmate Personal Property Enterprise Inmate Communication, NCR 20-14 Inmate Personal Property Enterprise Inmate Communication, Adopted Regulations for Return and Transfer of Parole, Adopted Regulations for Gassing and Restricted Housing, Adopted Regulation for Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA), NCR 21-02 Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA), Adopted Regulation for Content of Law Libraries. The California Police Chiefs Association argue that the bill "sets a dangerous precedent in California court of law, and would jeopardize the health and safety of the communities we are sworn to protect. What constitutes a violent crime varies by state, and does not always involve physical harm. What's new:This bill expands an existing law that would add NCCR to the existing civil sexual battery statute, making it a civil sexual battery for a person to: a) Cause contact between a sexual organ, from which a condom has been removed, and the intimate part of another who did not verbally consent to the condom being removed; or b) Cause contact between an intimate part of the person and a sexual organ of another from which the person removed a condom without verbal consent. Show More, For 32 years I worked with numerous Attorneys. Again, however, SB 136 was not retroactive. However, in 2019, lawmakers passed Senate Bill 136(SB 136), which eliminated a judges ability to use the one-year enhancement except in cases involving sexually violent offenses.. Problem: While the Supreme Court has affirmed that until someone is an adult, they cannot be held fully culpable for crimes they have committed, in every state youth under 18 can be tried and sentenced in adult criminal courts and, as of 2019, there was no minimum age in at least 21 states and D.C. Studies have shown that long sentences for violent offenses do little to deter crime. More information:See Families for Justice as Healing, Free Hearts, Operation Restoration, and Human Impact Partners Keeping Kids and Parents Together: A Healthier Approach to Sentencing in MA, TN, LA and the Illinois Task Force on Children of Incarcerated Parents Final Report and Recommendations. Solutions: States should raise the age of juvenile court jurisdiction to reflect our current understanding that youth should not be held culpable as adults, raise the floor to stop criminalizing young children, end the transfer of youth to adult courts and systems of punishment, and move status offenses out of juvenile court jurisdiction. Both SB 180 and SB 136 were huge strides forward in terms of criminal justice reform in California. Elections Code section 18541 expands prohibited activities within 100 feet of a polling place to now include obstructing ingress, egress, and parking. He agrees that this is why this bill is necessary and that we need to give discretion back to the courts to ensure we are not incarcerating people unnecessarily who might be better served by probation or treatment for addiction. However, for many inmates, the laws have significantly changed for the better since their sentence, making them eligiblealthough not entitledto relief. First, the Secretary of the CDCR and the count correctional administrator must identify those persons in their custody currently serving a [sentence] that includes an enhancement described in subdivision (a) and shall provide the name of each person, along with the persons date of birth and the relevant case number or docket number, to the sentencing court that imposed the enhancement.. A significant proportion of people who have committed violent crimes have been victims of crime or serious trauma themselves. 2!ZXp-,]VmI i4 1170 (b)( 3), (6)]Persons convicted of most drug offenses who had prior drug offenses were ineligible for probation under former Health and Safety Code section 11370. New California pay-to-play law taken to court. Set upper limits for probation and parole sentences. Oil, gas and neighborhoods. Problem: Video calling is quietly sweeping the nations prisons and local jails. Bidens national debt cut is actually a 13.4% increase. The long sentences people receive for such offenses and their exclusion from reforms that could reduce excessively long sentences have resulted in the growing number of aging and elderly people in prison. The stigma of having a conviction history prevents individuals from being able to successfully support themselves, impacts families whose loved ones were incarcerated, and can result in higher recidivism rates. Comment Guidelines. Any attempt to commit a crime listed above (other than assault). Thanks to the 1893 parole law, those serving sentences in Californias two prisons were given an incentive to be on their best behavior: release. The Virginia Consumer Data Protection Act ( VCDPA ), will take effect January 1, 2023. Why is it needed:Cristina Garcia (D- Bell Gardens), the author of the bill,said that the "occurrence [of stealthing] is on the rise." Here are 22 new laws Californians must start following in 2022 Alexei Koseff Dec. 6, 2021 Updated: Feb. 7, 2022 6:57 p.m. Notifications can be turned off anytime in the browser settings. 1170.9. His compassion and caring for his clients ensure he will get the For example, under Section 11370.2 and Section 667.5(b), a defendant may be sentenced to a modest term of imprisonment for the instant offense but could face an overall sentence that is significantly longer due to the imposition of enhancements. Civil asset forfeiture makes poor communities poorer and incentivizes aggressive policing. and the Vera Institute of Justice report Aging Out. Here is what you need to know about the new laws coming to the books starting on Jan. 1, 2022. State legislatures and local governments can also shift the cost of calls from those who are incarcerated to corrections agencies. California AB 2942 (2018) removed the Parole Boards exclusive authority to revisit excessive sentences and established a process for people serving a sentence of 15 years-to-life to ask the district attorney to make a recommendation to the court for a new sentence after completing half of their sentence or 15 years, whichever comes first. This week, the Administration of Justice policy area provides information on new laws affecting criminal justice fees, courts, police reform and juvenile justice. More information: See the Institute for Justices End Civil Asset Forfeiture page, the Center for American Progress report Forfeiting the American Dream, and the Drug Policy Alliances work on Asset Forfeiture Reform. Solutions: States should pass legislation establishing moratoriums on jail and prison construction. Professor Diane Lourdes Dick, who teaches tax, business and commercial law courses, joined the faculty as a professor. Moratoriums also allow for the impact of reforms enacted to be fully realized and push states to identify effective alternatives to incarceration. All of our recent reports about prison/jail growth, racial disparities, and more, re-organized by state. NCCR, also known as stealthing, is the practice of removing a condom during sex without the consent of a sexual partner. However, relief conveyed by SB 180 was not retroactive, meaning unless a case was currently on appeal or otherwise not final, a defendant could not qualify for a resentencing. Cloudflare Ray ID: 7a1148cfadcf0df6 Los Angeles County including Alhambra, Baldwin Park, Bellflower, Burbank, Calabasas, Carson, Compton, Downey, East Los Angeles, El Monte, Glendale, Hawthorne, Inglewood, Lakewood, Lancaster, Long Beach, Los Angeles, Lynwood, Norwalk, Palmdale, Pasadena, Pomona, Santa Clarita, Santa Monica, South Gate, Torrance, West Covina, and Whittier. You can email the site owner to let them know you were blocked. Problem: 35 states (Ala., Alaska, Ariz., Ark., Conn., Del., Fla., Ga., Ind., Iowa, Kan., La., Maine, Md., Mass., Mich., Mo., Neb., N.H., N.J., N.M., N.Y., N.C., N.D., Ohio, Okla., Pa., R.I., S.C., S.D., Tenn., Texas, Vt., Wash., and Wisc.) Problem: Nationally, one of every six people in state prisons has been incarcerated for a decade or more. Legislation and regulations: Legislation like Connecticuts S.B. We have also included some talking points and resources that can be used to push back when carve-outs to criminal justice reforms (that is, categorical exclusions of people who would benefit from reforms) are being discussed. More information: See the Colorado Criminal Justice Reform Coalitions Community Reinvestment memo, the Center for American Progresss How to Reinvest in Communities when Reducing the Scope of Policing, and the Urban Institutes Investing Justice Resources to Address Community Needs. 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