(a) The Department of Justice shall submit a plan for the replacement of the Juvenile Court and Probation Statistical System (JCPSS) with a modern database and reporting system. The plan shall be submitted to the Assembly and Senate budget subcommittees on public safety, and the Assembly and Senate Public Safety Committees by January 1, 2023.
(b) In devising the plan, the department shall convene a working group consisting of key stakeholders and experts, including, but not limited to, representatives from the Juvenile Justice Data Working Group established within the Board of State and Community Corrections pursuant to Section 6032, agencies that are responsible for the collection and submission of juvenile justice data to department, advocates with experience in the collection, analysis, and utilization of juvenile justice data in California, academic institutions or research organizations with experience in collecting, analyzing, or using juvenile justice data in California, and people directly impacted by the justice system.
(c) The plan shall consider the relevant findings and recommendations submitted by the Juvenile Justice Data Working Group in their January 2016 final report. The plan shall, at minimum, include the following:
(1) An overall description of the goals of the new data system.
(2) A description of all data elements proposed to be captured by the new system, including, but not limited to, all of the following:
(A) All data elements currently capture by JCPSS that are to be retained.
(B) Data and outcome measures needed to produce, at minimum, recidivism reports for youth organized by age, gender identity, race, ethnicity, and other demographic factors.
(C) Data and outcome measures needed to document caseload and placement changes due to the realignment of the state Division of Juvenile Justice to counties.
(D) How the revised system will document all of the following:
(i) Subsequent referrals to the justice system for violations of probation and warrants.
(ii) The use of preadjudication and postadjudication detention, including length of stay.
(iii) The use of detention alternatives, such as electronic monitoring, house arrest, or home supervision.
(iv) Dispositional placement outcomes by facility type, including length of stay in facilities. “Facility type” includes juvenile halls, group homes, foster care, county camp or ranch, and local facilities developed as an alternative to Division of Juvenile Justice facilities.
(3) The use of individual unique identifiers.
(4) An analysis of what features must be included to allow users to access and analyze data easily through standard or customized reports, and an analysis of how system data can be made publicly available on the department’s internet website.
(5) A discussion of how the new system can be designed to ensure that it may be modified in the future to reflect relevant changes to the juvenile justice system.
(6) An analysis of how this new system may impact state and local agencies that provide the department with data for inclusion in JCPSS, including an assessment of how state and local data systems may need to be modified to ensure that comprehensive and high-quality data is collected and transmitted to the department.
(7) Major challenges or obstacles, if any, to implementing a new system and recommendations for addressing those challenges.
(8) A cost estimate or estimates for the new system and for implementing and funding a new system. These recommendations may include, but are not limited to, a phased implementation approach, providing various options based on a system with differing data capabilities, or providing funding recommendations based on specific system components.
(10) A projected implementation timeline.
(d) The plan shall also include an assessment of the operational and fiscal feasibility of including both of the following capacities in the new system:
(1) Adult court dispositions of youth.
(2) Youth development and wellness data including, but not limited to, education attainment, employment, mental health, housing, family connections, foster care, and other wellness outcomes as recommended by the Juvenile Justice Data Working Group in their January 2016 final report.
(Added by Stats. 2020, Ch. 337, Sec. 15. (SB 823) Effective September 30, 2020.)