DATE: October 15, 2025
TO: Honorable Mayor and City Councilmembers
FROM: Police Department
TITLE: RESOLUTION APPROVING AN AGREEMENT WITH THE COUNTY OF SAN DIEGO FOR THE 2025 REGIONAL REALIGNMENT RESPONSE GROUP
RECOMMENDATION
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Staff recommends that the City Council adopt a resolution approving the extension of the agreement with the County of San Diego, accept funding in the amount of $65,000, for the 2025 Regional Realignment Response Group (R3G); approve the expenditure plan; appropriate these funds to the Police Department; and authorize the City Manager, or designee, to execute the agreement and all other required documents.
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BACKGROUND AND ANALYSIS
In April 2011, California Legislature and then-Governor Brown passed Assembly Bill 109 (AB 109) which resulted in fundamental changes to California's correctional system and shifted responsibility for lower-level offenders and parolees from the state to local jurisdictions. AB 109 has several key components; the first allows for current non-violent, non-serious and non-sex offenders who, after released from prison, are supervised at the local county-level. A second component to the bill diverts defendants convicted of less serious felony crimes to serve their time in a local county jail rather than in state prison. Once released from custody and back into our community, offenders then report to county probation officers instead of reporting to state parole officers.
The San Diego County Sheriff's Department received funds from the Community Corrections Partnership (CCP), a county-level collaborative body that was established in response to AB 109, to create the R3G to support public safety goals of reducing recidivism and promoting positive behavioral changes in offenders. The multi-agency group will use the funds to develop and implement a targeted, proactive, intelligence-based approach to mitigate the risks associated with realigned offenders released into San Diego County. The County's Bo...
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