Criminal threats: discharge of a firearm.

Existing law requires a person who willfully threatens to commit a crime that will result in death or great bodily injury to another person, with the specific intent that the statement is to be taken as a threat, even if there is no intent of actually carrying it out, and thereby causes that other person reasonably to be in sustained fear for his or her own safety or for his or her immediate family's safety, to be punished by imprisonment in a county jail not to exceed one year, or by imprisonment in the state prison. This bill would make a person who willfully threatens, by specified means, to discharge a firearm on the campus of a school, as defined, or location where a school-sponsored event is or will be taking place and the threat is related both to the school-sponsored event and to the time period in which the school-sponsored event will be taking place, with specific intent and under circumstances that convey a gravity of purpose and an immediate prospect of execution of the threat, guilty of a misdemeanor or felony punishable by imprisonment in a county jail for a specified term. By creating a crime, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement. This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.