Crimes: parole.

Existing law establishes the procedure by which the Board of Parole Hearings considers an indeterminately sentenced incarcerated person's suitability for parole and generally requires a panel of the board, or the board, sitting en banc, to grant parole on the incarcerated person's minimum eligible parole date unless it determines that the gravity of the current convicted offense or offenses, or the timing and gravity of current or past convicted offense or offenses, is such that consideration of the public safety requires a more lengthy period of incarceration. This bill would prohibit the board from considering discriminatory factors when reaching a finding of unsuitability for parole, including, among other factors, the person's race, ethnicity, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, cultural or religious affiliation, and cognitive, speech, or physical impairment.