Domestic terrorism.

Existing law establishes the Department of Justice, which is responsible, in part, for overseeing state summary criminal history information and overseeing statewide criminal justice programs like the California Criminalistics Institute. This bill would require the Attorney General to review any hate crimes and domestic terrorism training programs and resource programs that are provided to state, local, and tribal law enforcement agencies and ensure that those training and resource programs assist in understanding, detecting, deterring, and investigating hate crimes and acts of domestic terrorism. The bill would require an individual who provides hate crimes and domestic terrorism training to have expertise in domestic terrorism and relevant academic, law enforcement, or other experience in matters related to domestic terrorism. The bill would additionally require the Attorney General to review funding for antiterrorism from the 10 years prior to 2021, and report to the Legislature on or before January 1, 2023, with an analysis of whether California has an appropriately funded approach that focuses resources on the most pressing sources of terrorism.