Crimes: public safety omnibus.

(1) Existing law requires that any employer who willfully fails to pay and has the ability to pay a final court judgment or final order issued by the Labor Commissioner for all wages due to an employee who has been discharged or who has quit within 90 days of the date that the judgment was entered or the order became final is guilty of a misdemeanor. If the total amount of wages due is less than $1,000, upon conviction, the employer is required to be fined not less than $1,000 nor more than $10,000, or imprisoned in a county jail for not more than 6 months, for each offense. Under existing law, a misdemeanor, unless otherwise specified, is punishable by imprisonment in a county jail not exceeding 6 months, or a fine not exceeding $1,000, or by both that fine and imprisonment. This bill would, if the total amount of wages due is exactly $1,000, increase the maximum fine from no more than $1,000, to an amount not less than $1,000, nor more than $10,000. (2) Existing law authorizes a prosecutor to file specified misdemeanors, such as illegal gaming, as infractions unless the defendant elects to have the case proceed as a misdemeanor, and authorizes the court, with the consent of the defendant, to determine that the offense is an infraction. Existing law requires that cases on a court's calendar be disposed of in a certain order, such as prosecution for felonies where the defendant is in custody being tried first. This bill would make nontechnical changes to these provisions by updating cross-references and deleting obsolete provisions. (3) Existing law makes the crime of battery committed against any one of certain persons who are or who have been in a specified domestic relationship with the defendant, such as a spouse or former spouse, punishable by a fine or by imprisonment in a county jail for not more than one year, or by both that fine and imprisonment. Existing law makes it a felony for a person to willfully inflict corporal injury resulting in a traumatic condition upon a person who is or has been in a specified domestic relationship with the defendant, such as a spouse or a cohabitant, punishable by imprisonment in the state prison or a county jail, or a fine, or both imprisonment and a fine. Existing law also requires a peace officer, when that officer is called out on a domestic violence call, to make a good faith effort to inform a victim of his or her right to make a citizen's arrest. This bill would create an exception to the provision requiring a peace officer to make a good faith effort to inform a victim of his or her right to make a citizen's arrest when the officer makes an arrest for the crimes of domestic violence described above. (4) Existing law establishes a system of risk assessment of sex offenders and requires the use of the State Authorized Risk Assessment Tool for Sex Offenders (SARATSO) to assess specific risks, including future violence. Existing law requires the Department of Justice, on or before January 1, 2013, to make available to the public via the Internet Web site information regarding the risk assessment of registered sex offenders, including information regarding an elevated risk level based on the SARATSO future violence tool. This bill would delete the requirement that the department include information regarding an elevated risk level based on the SARATSO future violence tool on the Internet Web site. (5) Existing law provides that a grand juror who is a current employee of, or a former or retired employee last employed within the prior 3 years by, an agency within the investigative jurisdiction of the civil grand jury to inform the foreperson and court of that fact and recuse himself or herself from participating in any grand jury civil investigation of that agency. This bill would define the term "agency" for purposes of that provision to mean a department or operational part of a government entity, such as a city or county, as specified. (6) This bill would also make technical and clarifying changes.