Corrections: inmate transfers.

Existing law, until July 1, 2015, authorizes the board of supervisors of a county where, in the opinion of the county sheriff or the director of the county department of corrections, adequate facilities are not available for prisoners, to enter into an agreement with any other county whose county adult detention facilities are adequate for and accessible to the first county and requires the concurrence of the receiving county's sheriff or the director of the county department of corrections. Existing law also requires a county entering into a transfer agreement with another county to report annually to the Board of State and Community Corrections on the number of offenders who otherwise would be under that county's jurisdiction but who are now being housed in another county's facility and the reason for needing to house the offenders outside the county. This bill would extend the operation of those provisions until July 1, 2018, and would clarify that the agreement between counties would be to permit commitment of sentenced misdemeanants, felons sentenced to serve a term in a county jail, and any person required to serve a term of imprisonment in county adult detention facilities as a condition of probation. Existing law, operative July 1, 2015, authorizes a county where adequate facilities are not available for prisoners who would otherwise be confined in its county adult detention facilities to enter into an agreement with the board or boards of supervisors of one or more nearby counties whose county adult detention facilities are adequate for, and are readily accessible from, the first county for the commitment of misdemeanants and persons required to serve a term of imprisonment in a county adult detention facility as a condition of probation in jail in a county that is party to the agreement. Existing law, operative July 1, 2015, requires these agreements to provide for the support of a person so committed or transferred by the county from which he or she is committed. This bill would instead make those provisions operative July 1, 2018. This bill would make a related statement of legislative intent regarding inmate transfer agreements between nonadjacent counties.