Courts: data reporting.

Plain English Breakdown

The bill summary and digest do not provide specific details on enforcement mechanisms or funding for the data collection process.

Courts: Data Reporting for Eviction Cases

This law requires courts to send monthly reports on eviction cases by ZIP Code to the Judicial Council, which must then share this data online every four months and report it annually to the Legislature.

What This Bill Does

• Requires courts to provide the Judicial Council with information about unlawful detainer cases each month, aggregated by ZIP Code.
• Requires the Judicial Council to make that information publicly available online every four months.
• Requires the Judicial Council to send an annual report on eviction data to the Legislature.

Who It Names or Affects

• Courts handling eviction cases
• The Judicial Council

Terms To Know

Judicial Council

A state agency responsible for overseeing court operations and creating rules and forms for them.

Unlawful detainer cases

Legal actions taken by landlords to evict tenants from rental properties.

Limits and Unknowns

• The bill does not specify the consequences if courts fail to report required data.
• It is unclear how this new reporting requirement will be funded or enforced.

Official Summary Text

SB 768, as amended, Durazo.
Judicial Council: eviction data.
Courts: data reporting.
Existing law, the Sargent Shriver Civil Counsel Act, requires legal counsel to be appointed to represent low-income parties in civil matters involving critical issues affecting basic human needs in courts selected by the Judicial Council. The act requires the Judicial Council to develop one or more programs to provide competitive grants to provide legal counsel to low-income persons who require legal services in civil matters involving specific types of civil matters, including, among others, housing-related matters, probate conservatorships, guardianships, and domestic violence and civil harassment restraining orders. Existing law requires the Judicial Council to consider various factors, including, among others, the unmet need for legal services in the geographic area to be served, in selecting and
renewing participating programs. Existing law requires program applicants to, among other things, describe how the program would be administered and the means by which the program would serve the particular needs of the community, such as by providing representation to limited-English-speaking clients.
This bill would require courts to provide the Judicial Council each month with information regarding unlawful detainer cases, as specified, aggregated by ZIP Code. The bill would require the Judicial Council to make that information publicly available online every 4 months.
Existing law requires the Judicial Council to create rules and forms and to issue reports on certain subjects.
This bill would require the Judicial Council to collect data on evictions, as specified, make that data publicly available online, and report that data to the Legislature.

Current Bill Text

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