DATE: October 21, 2026
TO: Honorable Mayor and City Councilmembers
FROM: Police Department
TITLE: RESOLUTION APPROVING AN AGREEMENT WITH THE COUNTY OF SAN DIEGO FOR THE 2026 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, in the amount of $65,000, for the 2026 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 Governor Brown passed Assembly Bill 109 (AB109) which resulted in fundamental changes to California’s correctional system, and gave responsibility for lower-level offenders and parolees from the state to local jurisdictions. AB109 has several key components. The first allows for non-violent, non-serious, and non-sex offenders to be supervised at the local county level after they are released from prison. A second component to the bill diverts defendants convicted of less serious felony crimes such to serve their time in a local county jail rather than in state prison. Once released from custody, and back into our community, offenders are then to 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) to create the R3G to support CCP’s public safety goal. The multi-agency group will use the funds to develop and implement a targeted, proactive, intelligence-based approach to control and counteract the risks associated with realigned offenders released into San Diego County. The County’s Board of Supervisors approved and authorized the Sheriff’s Department to execute expenditure contracts to use the funds to reimburse all participating agenc...
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