Juvenile justice commission: hunger survey.

Plain English Breakdown

The official source does not provide specific details about funding or resource availability for conducting surveys.

Juvenile Justice Hunger Survey

This law requires juvenile justice commissions or local community-based organizations to conduct a survey every two years on youth under 26 who are confined in facilities like juvenile halls and camps, focusing on their hunger and food access.

What This Bill Does

• Requires juvenile justice commissions or work with local community-based organizations to administer a survey every two years for youth younger than 26 who are confined in county juvenile halls, camps, and other similar facilities.
• The survey assesses whether the youth are chronically or often hungry, have regular access to food between meals, have adequate time for meals, and evaluates the quality of the food provided.
• If the survey indicates that youth are often or chronically hungry, commissions must recommend changes to county policies to address this issue.
• The results from the survey and any recommendations made by the commission must be posted on their website.
• A description of actions taken by the county probation department to fix issues found in the survey must be published on their website.

Who It Names or Affects

• Juvenile justice commissions
• Youth under 26 years old who are confined in juvenile facilities

Terms To Know

chronically hungry

Feeling very hungry for a long time or often.

community-based organization

A local group that helps people in the community with various needs.

Limits and Unknowns

• The bill does not specify how much funding will be provided to conduct these surveys.
• It is unclear if all counties will have the resources needed to implement this requirement effectively.

Official Summary Text

AB 802, as introduced, Sharp-Collins.
Juvenile justice commission: hunger survey.
Existing law establishes in each county a juvenile justice commission, but authorizes the boards of supervisors of 2 or more adjacent counties to agree to establish a regional juvenile justice commission in lieu of a county juvenile justice commission. Existing law requires a juvenile justice commission, among other things, to inquire into the administration of the juvenile court law in the county or region in which the commission serves and to annually inspect any jail or lockup within the county that, in the preceding calendar year, was used for confinement for more than 24 hours of any minor.
This bill would require a juvenile justice commission to, or work with a local community-based organization to, administer, at least once every 24 months, a survey of youth younger than 26 years of age who are confined in county juvenile halls, camps, and
other facilities used for the confinement of youth, in order to ascertain whether confined youth are chronically or often hungry, whether confined youth have regular access to food between meals, whether confined youth have adequate time for meals, and the quality of the food confined youth are provided. The bill would require a juvenile justice commission to, if that survey indicates that confined youth are often or chronically hungry, make recommendations for changes to county policies to address that hunger. The bill would require the results of the survey and any recommendations made to be posted on the juvenile justice commission’s internet website and would require a description of any remedial or corrective actions the county takes to address issues found as a result of the survey to be published on the county probation department’s internet website. By imposing new duties on juvenile justice commissions and county probation departments, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program.
The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement.
This bill would provide that, if the Commission on State Mandates determines that the bill contains costs mandated by the state, reimbursement for those costs shall be made pursuant to the statutory provisions noted above.

Current Bill Text

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