Parole advancement hearings: reporting.

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The official status label indicates that this bill has passed both chambers and reached final enrollment.

Parole Hearing Reporting Requirements

AB-2232 removes the Board of Parole Hearings' ability to schedule earlier parole hearings and requires them to report on requests for advanced hearings.

What This Bill Does

• Removes the Board of Parole Hearings' authority to advance a hearing date before the scheduled time.
• Requires the Board of Parole Hearings, in coordination with the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, to collect annual data about requests to advance parole consideration hearing dates each year.
• Requires the Board of Parole Hearings to submit an annual report on these requests and their review processes to the Legislature by March 1, 2027, and every year after that.
• Makes this annual report publicly available on the internet website of the Board of Parole Hearings.
• Requires written summaries for each request to advance a parole hearing date, including reasons for approval or denial.

Who It Names or Affects

• The Board of Parole Hearings
• Inmates requesting earlier parole hearings

Terms To Know

Board of Parole Hearings

A state agency that decides whether inmates can be released on parole.

Parole

The supervised release of a prisoner before the end of their sentence, based on good behavior and rehabilitation.

Limits and Unknowns

• This bill does not specify what happens to inmates who were expecting an earlier parole hearing.
• It is unclear how this change will affect public safety or victim rights.

Official Summary Text

AB 2232, as amended, Patterson.
Parole
denial term.
advancement hearings: reporting.
Existing law, as amended by Proposition 9, the Victim’s Bill of Rights Act of 2008: Marsy’s Law, at the November 4, 2008, statewide general election, requires the Board of Parole Hearings, following a decision denying parole, to schedule the next hearing 3, 5, 7, 10, or 15 years from the date of the last hearing, as specified. Existing law also authorizes the board, in its discretion and after considering the views and interests of the victim, to advance a hearing to an earlier date, when a change in circumstances or new information establishes a reasonable likelihood that consideration of the public and victim’s safety does not require additional incarceration. Existing law authorizes an inmate to request that the board exercise its discretion to advance a hearing and provides the procedure for an inmate to make that request.
This bill would
remove the board’s authority to advance a parole hearing to an earlier date and would remove the corresponding provisions authorizing an inmate to request an advancement of their hearing date.
This bill would require the board, in coordination with the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, to collect and publish annual data regarding requests to advance parole consideration hearing dates and administrative review processes of those requests, as specified. The bill would require the board to submit the report to the Legislature by March 1, 2027, and annually thereafter. Following submission of the report to the Legislature, the bill would also require the board to make the report publicly available on its internet website on that date and annually thereafter.
This bill, for each request to advance a parole
consideration hearing date, would require the board to maintain a written summary of the decision, including the basis for approval or denial and the primary factors considered. The bill would require the summaries to be made available to certain entities, including the incarcerated person or their counsel.
This bill would repeal these provisions as of January 1, 2032.

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