HomeMy WebLinkAboutEast Bay Community Law Center - Implementation of SB 190 Menchaca, Clarissa
From: SB 190 Working Group <sb190@clinical.law.berkeley.edu>
Sent: Monday, December 4, 2017 11:02 AM
To: Connelly, Bill
Cc: Bordin, Steven; Clerk of the Board; McCracken, Shari; Paredes, Miguel;
kflener@buttecourt.ca.gov; District Attorney; Reed, Ronald;TRSCollections;Alpert, Bruce
Subject: Re: Implementation of Senate Bill 190 (Ending Juvenile Fees)
Dear county leadership,
We write to follow up on our correspondence last month regarding the implementation of SB 190.The materials we
sent in November are now available online: https://www.law.berkeley.edu/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/SB-190-
County-Implementation-Packet-2017.11.08-2.pdf.
As you know, effective January 1, 2018,SB 190 repeals county authority to charge administrative fees to families with
youth in the juvenile delinquency system, including for detention, legal representation, probation supervision, electronic
monitoring, and drug testing.
In addition to stopping assessment of these fees, we urge you to end fee collection, as Solano County and Yolo County
have done since the Governor signed SB 190.These counties join Alameda,Contra Costa, Sacramento, Santa Clara and
Sonoma in halting both fee assessment and collection San Francisco has never charged the fees).
We also urge you to discharge all outstanding civil fee judgements and stipulations and to refund payments made by
families on all unlawfully charged fees.
If you have taken any of the above actions since the enactment of SB 190, please let us know.
We will be closely monitoring county implementation of SB 190, and would like to be aware of all new developments.
We would also welcome your questions or suggestions about implementing SB 190 as quickly and effectively as possible
across the state.
Sincerely,
The SB 190 Implementation Working Group:
East Bay Community Law Center
Lawyers'Committee for Civil Rights of the San Francisco Bay Area UC Berkeley School of Law Policy Advocacy Clinic
Western Center on Law and Poverty Youth Justice Coalition of Los Angeles
On 11/2/17,9:08 PM, "SB 190 Working Group"<sb190@clinical.law.berkeley.edu>wrote:
Dear Butte County Board of Supervisors Chair Connelly:
On October 11, 2017, Governor Jerry Brown signed into law Senate Bill 190,which repeals county authority to charge
administrative fees to families with youth in the juvenile system.
Effective January 1, 2018, counties are no longer authorized to charge families for their youth's detention, lawyer,
supervision, electronic monitoring, or drug testing.
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Attached please find an implementation letter describing your county's legal obligations under SB 190, as well as
further steps that we urge your county to take to reduce the harm caused by these fees and to avoid exposure to
liability for unlawfully assessed fees.
We encourage you to review this letter carefully and to ensure that all relevant actors in your county are informed of
the new law's requirements and purpose.
We have also attached a checklist of concrete actions your county should take to implement SB 190, and a one-page
flyer to distribute and post in relevant locations (we will forward a Spanish version of the flyer when it becomes
available).
Please contact us at SB190@clinical.law.berkeley.edu if you have any questions or suggestions about implementing
the letter and purpose of this important new law.
Sincerely,
East Bay Community Law Center
Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights of the San Francisco Bay Area
Public Counsel
UC Berkeley School of Law Policy Advocacy Clinic
Western Center on Law& Poverty
Youth Justice Coalition
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