BILL NUMBER: AB 945	CHAPTERED
	BILL TEXT

	CHAPTER  332
	FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE  SEPTEMBER 8, 2003
	APPROVED BY GOVERNOR  SEPTEMBER 6, 2003
	PASSED THE ASSEMBLY  AUGUST 21, 2003
	PASSED THE SENATE  JULY 24, 2003
	AMENDED IN SENATE  JULY 10, 2003
	AMENDED IN SENATE  JUNE 17, 2003
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MAY 5, 2003
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MARCH 26, 2003

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Nunez
   (Coauthor:  Senator Romero)

                        FEBRUARY 20, 2003

   An act to add Section 207.6 to the Welfare and Institutions Code,
relating to minors.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 945, Nunez.  Detention of minors in adult facilities.
   Existing law permits the detention of minors in jails and other
secure facilities for the confinement of adults if certain conditions
are met, including that the juvenile court or court of criminal
jurisdiction makes a finding that the minor's further detention in
the juvenile hall would endanger the safety of the public or would be
detrimental to the other minors in the juvenile hall.
   Existing law also authorizes the juvenile court to order that
certain minors who have committed specified serious or violent
offenses and who have been declared to be not a fit and proper
subject to be dealt with under juvenile law, or whose cases have been
filed directly in or transferred to a court of criminal
jurisdiction, be delivered to the custody of the sheriff, upon making
a specified finding.
   This bill would permit a minor to be detained in a jail or other
secure facility for the confinement of adults pursuant to those
provisions only if the court makes its findings on the record, and,
in addition, finds that the minor poses a danger to the staff, other
minors in the juvenile facility, or to the public, as specified.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:


  SECTION 1.  Section 207.6 is added to the Welfare and Institutions
Code, to read:
   207.6.  A minor may be detained in a jail or other secure facility
for the confinement of adults pursuant to subdivision (b) of Section
207.1 or paragraph (1) of subdivision (b) of Section 707.1 only if
the court makes its findings on the record and, in addition, finds
that the minor poses a danger to the staff, other minors in the
juvenile facility, or to the public because of the minor's failure to
respond to the disciplinary control of the juvenile facility, or
because the nature of the danger posed by the minor cannot safely be
managed by the disciplinary procedures of the juvenile facility.