Sexual Assault Crimes Against Disabled and Developmentally Disabled Victims.

Existing law establishes the Office of Emergency Services, which is required to, among other things, allocate and award funds to communities developing and providing ongoing citizen involvement and crime resistance programs. This bill would require the office, until January 1, 2023, to allocate and award funds to up to 11 district attorney offices that employ a vertical prosecution methodology for the prosecution of sexual assault crimes, as specified, involving disabled and developmentally disabled victims and that meet other specified criteria, including minimum staffing levels for the program. The bill would require the office, on or before January 1, 2022, to submit to the Legislature and the Governor's office a report that describes the counties that received funding pursuant to this program, the number of prosecutions for those sexual assault crime cases filed by the counties receiving funding, the number of sexual assault convictions obtained by those counties, and the sentences imposed by those counties. The bill would appropriate $2,650,000 from the General Fund to the office for funding the program.