CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE 20232024 REGULAR SESSION Assembly Bill No. 943Introduced by Assembly Member KalraFebruary 14, 2023 An act to add Section 2068 to the Penal Code, relating to corrections. LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGESTAB 943, as introduced, Kalra. Corrections: population data.Existing law establishes the state prisons under the jurisdiction of the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. Existing law requires the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to provide operation and fiscal information to the Joint Legislative Budget Committee, including, among other things, data regarding the total expenditures and average daily population for each adult institution.This bill would require the department, when preparing monthly demographic data, to prepare and publish the data disaggregated by race and ethnicity, including, but not limited to, by 28 ethnicity types. The bill would require the department use separate collection categories and tabulations for American Indian, Alaska Native, and each major Asian and Pacific Islander group, as specified, when collecting voluntary self-identification information pertaining to the race or ethnic origin of people admitted, in custody, and released and paroled.Digest Key Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: YES Local Program: NO Bill TextThe people of the State of California do enact as follows:SECTION 1. The Legislature finds and declares all of the following:(a) While The Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation currently publishes monthly data of its population in its custody, people admitted, released and paroled, Asians, Pacific Islanders, and Indigenous people are categorized as other in its monthly population reports.(b) The state of California has invested in various programs to provide rehabilitative services to incarcerated individuals. For example, the budget act in 20192020 established the California Reentry and Enrichment (CARE) Grant program that provides nonprofit organizations to design and provide transformative programs in California prisons. The goal of the program is to help individuals understand the causes and consequences of their behavior and address and treat symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder.(c) However, because it is unknown to the public how many Asians, Pacific Islanders, and Indigenous people are currently in the California prison system, their experiences and urgency of needs are left out in these programs. (d) From 2019 to 2021, inclusive, Asian Prisoner Support Committee, a California organization that provides direct support to Asian and Pacific Islander prisoners conducted a statewide survey in our prisons in an attempt to paint a fuller portrait of our prison system population and better serve those in the prison system and their reentry plans.(e) The survey shows that a majority of more than 500 respondents indicated that war as being the main cause for displacement from their country of origin. When people resettle in the United States, they often experience economic hardship and violence. Many of these respondents react to these forms of trauma by joining a gang to find community.(f) Southeast Asian adults have the highest rate of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder compared with the general population due to war trauma, poverty, and other challenges after they or their families fled from various wars in the 1970 to 1980s, inclusive.(g) Disaggregated data provides better insight on racial and ethnic disparities in the justice system. For example, while Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander make up 0.5 percent of the San Francisco County population, the San Francisco Juvenile Probation Department 2010 report showed that Samoan youth make up 5 percent of all youth booked in its juvenile hall that year.(h) In order to better serve Asians, Pacific Islanders, and Indigenous people, closing service gaps and ensure incarcerated and formerly incarcerated people receive culturally competent and sensitive in-prison and reentry programs, collection of the number of Indigenous people, and additional Asian, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander ethnic groups is critical for enhancing understanding of the needs and experiences of these different communities.SEC. 2. Section 2068 is added to the Penal Code, to read:2068. (a) In preparing monthly demographic data, the department shall prepare and publish the data disaggregated by race and ethnicity, including, but not limited to, by 28 ethnicity types.(b) When collecting voluntary self-identification information pertaining to the race or ethnic origin of people admitted, in custody, and released and paroled, the department shall use separate collection categories and tabulations for American Indian, Alaska Native, and each major Asian and Pacific Islander group, including, but not limited to, Chinese, Japanese, Filipino, Korean, Vietnamese, Asian Indian, Laotian, Cambodian, Native Hawaiian, Guamanian or Chamorro, Samoan, Laotian, Tongan, Fijian, Bangladeshi, Hmong, Indonesian, Malaysian, Pakistani, Sri Lankan, Taiwanese, and Thai.(c) The data, except for personal identifying information, which shall be deemed confidential, shall be publically available on the departments internet website.
CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE 20232024 REGULAR SESSION Assembly Bill No. 943Introduced by Assembly Member KalraFebruary 14, 2023 An act to add Section 2068 to the Penal Code, relating to corrections. LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGESTAB 943, as introduced, Kalra. Corrections: population data.Existing law establishes the state prisons under the jurisdiction of the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. Existing law requires the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to provide operation and fiscal information to the Joint Legislative Budget Committee, including, among other things, data regarding the total expenditures and average daily population for each adult institution.This bill would require the department, when preparing monthly demographic data, to prepare and publish the data disaggregated by race and ethnicity, including, but not limited to, by 28 ethnicity types. The bill would require the department use separate collection categories and tabulations for American Indian, Alaska Native, and each major Asian and Pacific Islander group, as specified, when collecting voluntary self-identification information pertaining to the race or ethnic origin of people admitted, in custody, and released and paroled.Digest Key Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: YES Local Program: NO
CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE 20232024 REGULAR SESSION
Assembly Bill
No. 943
Introduced by Assembly Member KalraFebruary 14, 2023
Introduced by Assembly Member Kalra
February 14, 2023
An act to add Section 2068 to the Penal Code, relating to corrections.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
## LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
AB 943, as introduced, Kalra. Corrections: population data.
Existing law establishes the state prisons under the jurisdiction of the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. Existing law requires the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to provide operation and fiscal information to the Joint Legislative Budget Committee, including, among other things, data regarding the total expenditures and average daily population for each adult institution.This bill would require the department, when preparing monthly demographic data, to prepare and publish the data disaggregated by race and ethnicity, including, but not limited to, by 28 ethnicity types. The bill would require the department use separate collection categories and tabulations for American Indian, Alaska Native, and each major Asian and Pacific Islander group, as specified, when collecting voluntary self-identification information pertaining to the race or ethnic origin of people admitted, in custody, and released and paroled.
Existing law establishes the state prisons under the jurisdiction of the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. Existing law requires the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to provide operation and fiscal information to the Joint Legislative Budget Committee, including, among other things, data regarding the total expenditures and average daily population for each adult institution.
This bill would require the department, when preparing monthly demographic data, to prepare and publish the data disaggregated by race and ethnicity, including, but not limited to, by 28 ethnicity types. The bill would require the department use separate collection categories and tabulations for American Indian, Alaska Native, and each major Asian and Pacific Islander group, as specified, when collecting voluntary self-identification information pertaining to the race or ethnic origin of people admitted, in custody, and released and paroled.
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The people of the State of California do enact as follows:SECTION 1. The Legislature finds and declares all of the following:(a) While The Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation currently publishes monthly data of its population in its custody, people admitted, released and paroled, Asians, Pacific Islanders, and Indigenous people are categorized as other in its monthly population reports.(b) The state of California has invested in various programs to provide rehabilitative services to incarcerated individuals. For example, the budget act in 20192020 established the California Reentry and Enrichment (CARE) Grant program that provides nonprofit organizations to design and provide transformative programs in California prisons. The goal of the program is to help individuals understand the causes and consequences of their behavior and address and treat symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder.(c) However, because it is unknown to the public how many Asians, Pacific Islanders, and Indigenous people are currently in the California prison system, their experiences and urgency of needs are left out in these programs. (d) From 2019 to 2021, inclusive, Asian Prisoner Support Committee, a California organization that provides direct support to Asian and Pacific Islander prisoners conducted a statewide survey in our prisons in an attempt to paint a fuller portrait of our prison system population and better serve those in the prison system and their reentry plans.(e) The survey shows that a majority of more than 500 respondents indicated that war as being the main cause for displacement from their country of origin. When people resettle in the United States, they often experience economic hardship and violence. Many of these respondents react to these forms of trauma by joining a gang to find community.(f) Southeast Asian adults have the highest rate of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder compared with the general population due to war trauma, poverty, and other challenges after they or their families fled from various wars in the 1970 to 1980s, inclusive.(g) Disaggregated data provides better insight on racial and ethnic disparities in the justice system. For example, while Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander make up 0.5 percent of the San Francisco County population, the San Francisco Juvenile Probation Department 2010 report showed that Samoan youth make up 5 percent of all youth booked in its juvenile hall that year.(h) In order to better serve Asians, Pacific Islanders, and Indigenous people, closing service gaps and ensure incarcerated and formerly incarcerated people receive culturally competent and sensitive in-prison and reentry programs, collection of the number of Indigenous people, and additional Asian, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander ethnic groups is critical for enhancing understanding of the needs and experiences of these different communities.SEC. 2. Section 2068 is added to the Penal Code, to read:2068. (a) In preparing monthly demographic data, the department shall prepare and publish the data disaggregated by race and ethnicity, including, but not limited to, by 28 ethnicity types.(b) When collecting voluntary self-identification information pertaining to the race or ethnic origin of people admitted, in custody, and released and paroled, the department shall use separate collection categories and tabulations for American Indian, Alaska Native, and each major Asian and Pacific Islander group, including, but not limited to, Chinese, Japanese, Filipino, Korean, Vietnamese, Asian Indian, Laotian, Cambodian, Native Hawaiian, Guamanian or Chamorro, Samoan, Laotian, Tongan, Fijian, Bangladeshi, Hmong, Indonesian, Malaysian, Pakistani, Sri Lankan, Taiwanese, and Thai.(c) The data, except for personal identifying information, which shall be deemed confidential, shall be publically available on the departments internet website.
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
## The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION 1. The Legislature finds and declares all of the following:(a) While The Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation currently publishes monthly data of its population in its custody, people admitted, released and paroled, Asians, Pacific Islanders, and Indigenous people are categorized as other in its monthly population reports.(b) The state of California has invested in various programs to provide rehabilitative services to incarcerated individuals. For example, the budget act in 20192020 established the California Reentry and Enrichment (CARE) Grant program that provides nonprofit organizations to design and provide transformative programs in California prisons. The goal of the program is to help individuals understand the causes and consequences of their behavior and address and treat symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder.(c) However, because it is unknown to the public how many Asians, Pacific Islanders, and Indigenous people are currently in the California prison system, their experiences and urgency of needs are left out in these programs. (d) From 2019 to 2021, inclusive, Asian Prisoner Support Committee, a California organization that provides direct support to Asian and Pacific Islander prisoners conducted a statewide survey in our prisons in an attempt to paint a fuller portrait of our prison system population and better serve those in the prison system and their reentry plans.(e) The survey shows that a majority of more than 500 respondents indicated that war as being the main cause for displacement from their country of origin. When people resettle in the United States, they often experience economic hardship and violence. Many of these respondents react to these forms of trauma by joining a gang to find community.(f) Southeast Asian adults have the highest rate of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder compared with the general population due to war trauma, poverty, and other challenges after they or their families fled from various wars in the 1970 to 1980s, inclusive.(g) Disaggregated data provides better insight on racial and ethnic disparities in the justice system. For example, while Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander make up 0.5 percent of the San Francisco County population, the San Francisco Juvenile Probation Department 2010 report showed that Samoan youth make up 5 percent of all youth booked in its juvenile hall that year.(h) In order to better serve Asians, Pacific Islanders, and Indigenous people, closing service gaps and ensure incarcerated and formerly incarcerated people receive culturally competent and sensitive in-prison and reentry programs, collection of the number of Indigenous people, and additional Asian, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander ethnic groups is critical for enhancing understanding of the needs and experiences of these different communities.
SECTION 1. The Legislature finds and declares all of the following:(a) While The Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation currently publishes monthly data of its population in its custody, people admitted, released and paroled, Asians, Pacific Islanders, and Indigenous people are categorized as other in its monthly population reports.(b) The state of California has invested in various programs to provide rehabilitative services to incarcerated individuals. For example, the budget act in 20192020 established the California Reentry and Enrichment (CARE) Grant program that provides nonprofit organizations to design and provide transformative programs in California prisons. The goal of the program is to help individuals understand the causes and consequences of their behavior and address and treat symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder.(c) However, because it is unknown to the public how many Asians, Pacific Islanders, and Indigenous people are currently in the California prison system, their experiences and urgency of needs are left out in these programs. (d) From 2019 to 2021, inclusive, Asian Prisoner Support Committee, a California organization that provides direct support to Asian and Pacific Islander prisoners conducted a statewide survey in our prisons in an attempt to paint a fuller portrait of our prison system population and better serve those in the prison system and their reentry plans.(e) The survey shows that a majority of more than 500 respondents indicated that war as being the main cause for displacement from their country of origin. When people resettle in the United States, they often experience economic hardship and violence. Many of these respondents react to these forms of trauma by joining a gang to find community.(f) Southeast Asian adults have the highest rate of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder compared with the general population due to war trauma, poverty, and other challenges after they or their families fled from various wars in the 1970 to 1980s, inclusive.(g) Disaggregated data provides better insight on racial and ethnic disparities in the justice system. For example, while Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander make up 0.5 percent of the San Francisco County population, the San Francisco Juvenile Probation Department 2010 report showed that Samoan youth make up 5 percent of all youth booked in its juvenile hall that year.(h) In order to better serve Asians, Pacific Islanders, and Indigenous people, closing service gaps and ensure incarcerated and formerly incarcerated people receive culturally competent and sensitive in-prison and reentry programs, collection of the number of Indigenous people, and additional Asian, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander ethnic groups is critical for enhancing understanding of the needs and experiences of these different communities.
SECTION 1. The Legislature finds and declares all of the following:
### SECTION 1.
(a) While The Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation currently publishes monthly data of its population in its custody, people admitted, released and paroled, Asians, Pacific Islanders, and Indigenous people are categorized as other in its monthly population reports.
(b) The state of California has invested in various programs to provide rehabilitative services to incarcerated individuals. For example, the budget act in 20192020 established the California Reentry and Enrichment (CARE) Grant program that provides nonprofit organizations to design and provide transformative programs in California prisons. The goal of the program is to help individuals understand the causes and consequences of their behavior and address and treat symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder.
(c) However, because it is unknown to the public how many Asians, Pacific Islanders, and Indigenous people are currently in the California prison system, their experiences and urgency of needs are left out in these programs.
(d) From 2019 to 2021, inclusive, Asian Prisoner Support Committee, a California organization that provides direct support to Asian and Pacific Islander prisoners conducted a statewide survey in our prisons in an attempt to paint a fuller portrait of our prison system population and better serve those in the prison system and their reentry plans.
(e) The survey shows that a majority of more than 500 respondents indicated that war as being the main cause for displacement from their country of origin. When people resettle in the United States, they often experience economic hardship and violence. Many of these respondents react to these forms of trauma by joining a gang to find community.
(f) Southeast Asian adults have the highest rate of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder compared with the general population due to war trauma, poverty, and other challenges after they or their families fled from various wars in the 1970 to 1980s, inclusive.
(g) Disaggregated data provides better insight on racial and ethnic disparities in the justice system. For example, while Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander make up 0.5 percent of the San Francisco County population, the San Francisco Juvenile Probation Department 2010 report showed that Samoan youth make up 5 percent of all youth booked in its juvenile hall that year.
(h) In order to better serve Asians, Pacific Islanders, and Indigenous people, closing service gaps and ensure incarcerated and formerly incarcerated people receive culturally competent and sensitive in-prison and reentry programs, collection of the number of Indigenous people, and additional Asian, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander ethnic groups is critical for enhancing understanding of the needs and experiences of these different communities.
SEC. 2. Section 2068 is added to the Penal Code, to read:2068. (a) In preparing monthly demographic data, the department shall prepare and publish the data disaggregated by race and ethnicity, including, but not limited to, by 28 ethnicity types.(b) When collecting voluntary self-identification information pertaining to the race or ethnic origin of people admitted, in custody, and released and paroled, the department shall use separate collection categories and tabulations for American Indian, Alaska Native, and each major Asian and Pacific Islander group, including, but not limited to, Chinese, Japanese, Filipino, Korean, Vietnamese, Asian Indian, Laotian, Cambodian, Native Hawaiian, Guamanian or Chamorro, Samoan, Laotian, Tongan, Fijian, Bangladeshi, Hmong, Indonesian, Malaysian, Pakistani, Sri Lankan, Taiwanese, and Thai.(c) The data, except for personal identifying information, which shall be deemed confidential, shall be publically available on the departments internet website.
SEC. 2. Section 2068 is added to the Penal Code, to read:
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2068. (a) In preparing monthly demographic data, the department shall prepare and publish the data disaggregated by race and ethnicity, including, but not limited to, by 28 ethnicity types.(b) When collecting voluntary self-identification information pertaining to the race or ethnic origin of people admitted, in custody, and released and paroled, the department shall use separate collection categories and tabulations for American Indian, Alaska Native, and each major Asian and Pacific Islander group, including, but not limited to, Chinese, Japanese, Filipino, Korean, Vietnamese, Asian Indian, Laotian, Cambodian, Native Hawaiian, Guamanian or Chamorro, Samoan, Laotian, Tongan, Fijian, Bangladeshi, Hmong, Indonesian, Malaysian, Pakistani, Sri Lankan, Taiwanese, and Thai.(c) The data, except for personal identifying information, which shall be deemed confidential, shall be publically available on the departments internet website.
2068. (a) In preparing monthly demographic data, the department shall prepare and publish the data disaggregated by race and ethnicity, including, but not limited to, by 28 ethnicity types.(b) When collecting voluntary self-identification information pertaining to the race or ethnic origin of people admitted, in custody, and released and paroled, the department shall use separate collection categories and tabulations for American Indian, Alaska Native, and each major Asian and Pacific Islander group, including, but not limited to, Chinese, Japanese, Filipino, Korean, Vietnamese, Asian Indian, Laotian, Cambodian, Native Hawaiian, Guamanian or Chamorro, Samoan, Laotian, Tongan, Fijian, Bangladeshi, Hmong, Indonesian, Malaysian, Pakistani, Sri Lankan, Taiwanese, and Thai.(c) The data, except for personal identifying information, which shall be deemed confidential, shall be publically available on the departments internet website.
2068. (a) In preparing monthly demographic data, the department shall prepare and publish the data disaggregated by race and ethnicity, including, but not limited to, by 28 ethnicity types.(b) When collecting voluntary self-identification information pertaining to the race or ethnic origin of people admitted, in custody, and released and paroled, the department shall use separate collection categories and tabulations for American Indian, Alaska Native, and each major Asian and Pacific Islander group, including, but not limited to, Chinese, Japanese, Filipino, Korean, Vietnamese, Asian Indian, Laotian, Cambodian, Native Hawaiian, Guamanian or Chamorro, Samoan, Laotian, Tongan, Fijian, Bangladeshi, Hmong, Indonesian, Malaysian, Pakistani, Sri Lankan, Taiwanese, and Thai.(c) The data, except for personal identifying information, which shall be deemed confidential, shall be publically available on the departments internet website.
2068. (a) In preparing monthly demographic data, the department shall prepare and publish the data disaggregated by race and ethnicity, including, but not limited to, by 28 ethnicity types.
(b) When collecting voluntary self-identification information pertaining to the race or ethnic origin of people admitted, in custody, and released and paroled, the department shall use separate collection categories and tabulations for American Indian, Alaska Native, and each major Asian and Pacific Islander group, including, but not limited to, Chinese, Japanese, Filipino, Korean, Vietnamese, Asian Indian, Laotian, Cambodian, Native Hawaiian, Guamanian or Chamorro, Samoan, Laotian, Tongan, Fijian, Bangladeshi, Hmong, Indonesian, Malaysian, Pakistani, Sri Lankan, Taiwanese, and Thai.
(c) The data, except for personal identifying information, which shall be deemed confidential, shall be publically available on the departments internet website.