BILL NUMBER: SB 781	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Senator Dutton

                        FEBRUARY 18, 2011

   An act to amend Section 1210.9 of the Penal Code, relating to
probation.



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 781, as introduced, Dutton. Probation: electronic monitoring.
   Existing law authorizes a county probation department to utilize
continuous electronic monitoring to electronically monitor the
whereabouts of persons on probation. Existing law allows a continuous
electronic monitoring system to have the capacity to notify a county
probation department of a probation violation.
   This bill would make a technical, nonsubstantive change to these
provisions.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no.
State-mandated local program: no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  SECTION 1.  Section 1210.9 of the Penal Code is amended to read:
   1210.9.  (a) A continuous electronic monitoring system may have
the capacity to immediately notify a county probation department of
violations, actual or suspected, of the terms of probation that have
been identified by the  electronic  monitoring system if the
requirement is deemed necessary by the county probation officer with
respect to an individual person.
   (b) The information described in subdivision (a), including
geographic location and tampering, may be used as evidence to prove a
violation of the terms of probation.