Probation: community corrections multidisciplinary teams.

Existing law authorizes the members of multidisciplinary teams engaged in the prevention, identification, and control of juvenile crime to share certain information with each other, as specified. This bill would, in addition, authorize counties, for purposes of providing evidence-based practices and supervision, to convene community corrections multidisciplinary teams engaged in providing community corrections supervision and evidenced-based rehabilitation programs, as specified. The bill would require each community corrections multidisciplinary team to maintain an informed consent policy in order to authorize the sharing of confidential, privileged, or protected information among members of the team, as specified. The bill would additionally require the county probation officer in each county utilizing a community corrections multidisciplinary team to develop and implement a memorandum of understanding between the agencies participating in the community corrections multidisciplinary team that includes, among other things, a description of the types of information and writings that may be shared between team members.