Juvenile justice: Youthful Offender Block Fund.

Existing law establishes the Youthful Offender Block Grant Fund to be used to enhance the capacity of various county departments to provide rehabilitative and supervision services to youthful offenders. Existing law requires a county to annually prepare and submit to the Board of State and Community Corrections a Juvenile Justice Development Plan on its proposed expenditures for the next fiscal year from the Youthful Offender Block Grant Fund, as well as an annual report regarding its utilization of the block grant funds in the preceding fiscal year, as specified. This bill would declare the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation to require a county, as a condition of receipt of funds from the Youthful Offender Block Grant Fund, to collect and report countywide performance outcomes and expenditures related to juvenile justice, and to require the Board of State and Community Corrections to collect and report this data in its annual reports.