California Welfare and Institutions Code

§ 743

WIC § 743 Effective Jan 1, 1999Div. 2 · Part 1 · Ch. 2 · Art. 18.6

Statute text

Contingent upon the appropriation of funds therefor, there is hereby established a three-year pilot project which shall be known as the “Repeat Offender Prevention Project.” This project shall operate in the Counties of Fresno, Humboldt, Los Angeles, Orange, San Diego, San Mateo, and Solano, and the City and County of San Francisco, unless the board of supervisors of one or more of these counties adopts a resolution to the effect it will not participate in the project, each of which shall either design, establish, implement, and evaluate a model program to meet the needs of a juvenile offender population identified as having the potential to become repeat serious offenders utilizing the findings of exploratory studies conducted in Orange County between 1989 and 1993 by the research staff of the Orange County Probation Department and which identified certain minors who were designated as the “8 percent” population. The main goal of this program is to develop and implement a cost-effective multiagency, multidisciplinary program which targets youth displaying behavior that may lead to delinquency and recidivism.

Legislative history

Amended by Stats. 1998, Ch. 327, Sec. 1. Effective January 1, 1999.