California Conservation Corps: applicant selection.

Existing law authorizes the Director of the California Conservation Corps, in implementing the California Conservation Corps program, to recruit and enroll corpsmembers and to adopt criteria for selecting applicants for enrollment, including individuals convicted of a crime described in the California Uniform Controlled Substances Act. Existing law requires the director, when adopting this criteria, to take into account the health, safety, and welfare of the public and the corps' program participants and staff. This bill would authorize the director to select an applicant for enrollment in the corps' program who is on probation, postrelease community supervision, or mandatory supervision. Existing law establishes community conservation corps, defined as a nonprofit public benefit corporation or an agency operated by a city, county, or city and county that is certified by the California Conservation Corps, as meeting specified criteria. Existing law prohibits school districts from employing or retaining in employment persons who have been convicted of a controlled substance offense, as defined. This bill would authorize, notwithstanding that prohibition, a school district or county office of education that operates a community conservation corps to select an applicant for enrollment in the community conservation corps' program who is on probation, postrelease community supervision, or mandatory supervision.