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OFFICE OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE PLANNING REPORT
Glenn Johnson
Office of Criminal Justice Planning
The Office of Criminal Justice Planning (OCJP) received $44 million in a federal block grant in 1992. (Appendix
]) About $28 miIIion of that is passed through to local programs, and $16 million is retained at the state level to
run some state programs and administer the project. We fund a marijuana suppression program in seven counties
for $2.6 millicm. The DEA is cooperating with the California Highway Patrol and some sheriff departments on
Operation Pipeline, which is a very effective operation in detecting large quantities of drugs along the Interstate 5
corridor.
Although OCJP funds have been targeted specifically for suppression and enforcement efforts, we received
authorization through legislation to fund four treatment projects exclusively for juvenile offenders. We are now in
the final grant award negotiation with Orange, Riverside, Los Angeles, and Humboldt counties. They will be
running a 24·month program to focus on both inpatient and outpatient fo!low.up on juvenile offenders, so we will
be able to provide some data on the success of those projects !n a couple of years.
OCJP is funding a narcotics information system in Los Angeles for about $2.9 million that will assist L.A.
County's 46 police departments in coordinating investigations. All law enforcement agencies in California will
eventually have access to this super system that will contain intelligence infOimation from all contributing
agencies. Initially called the Los Angeles County Clearinghouse, it has taken on the name Statewide Integrated
Narcotics System (SINS) and now is a coordinated effort between all 57 police departments in Los Angeles, the
Sheri.ff's Department, and the Southwest Border Task Force.
The federal government has required that, of the $44 million received in 1992, 5 percent be held back to assist in
the improvement of California's criminal history record system. By statute. law enforcement agencies are supposed
to send arrest information to Sacramento. Court clerks who have disposition or conviction information on
defendants are supposed to send it to the repository. The Department of Justice (DO]) again is the repository for
California investigation inte1ligence information. and it is trying to discern the percentage of referrals of arrestee
information and conviction information to the state depository.
OCJP has been working with all 58 counties in the Master Plan process. Initially, ADP set up a six·phase process
where counties could enroll and submit their Master Plans within four·month increments over 2 period of a year
and a half. We are currently funding every county at a minimum of $150.000; the balance is distributed according
to the Clime index rate so the range is from $150,000 in Alpine County to almost $7 million for L.A. County.
DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS REPORT
Dave Winett
CzJifornia Department of Corrections
Perhaps the most extensive research and evaluation study underway in the California Department of Corrections
(CDC) is the Amity Righturn Program at the R.I. Donovan Correctional Facility in San Diego. The CDC effort is
looking at a comparison group and a study group to determine -if there are any differences among these two groups
in terms of institution behavior and subsequent release behavior. Also, this population is being studied through a
NIDA·funded research project to Narcotic and Drug Research Incorporated (NDRI) using random assignment from
waiting lists into the program and looking at the impact of the program, not only in the prison but also on the host
custody component This component is a continued treatment of involved offendt;;rs from one environment··
institutions-through to the ne:-.1, which is the community. We have completp.d a process study of the first year of
operation at San Diego (Appendix K).
Another important study is the Bay Area Services Network (BASN). where the CDC is using residents of Delancey
Street to try to get prison inmates interested in going into drug abuse treatment programs in the community. The
Bay Area Services Network involves six Bay Area counties-·San Francisco, Alameda, Santa Clara, San Mateo,
Marin, and Contra Costa. In each of those counties. there are funded slots, both residential and outpatient. plus the
involvement of Delancey Street residents. whom we regard as community services coordinators who maintain an
ongoing contact with the institution parolees. Some people are also beginning to enter the program from existing
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