The Board of Directors of the Bay Area Rapid Transit District ("BART") approved an expanded external and independent Internal Affairs investigation of BART officers who were on the scene at the Fruitvale Station Platform on New Year's Day currently being conducted by the law firm of Meyers Nave. Meyers Nave reported to the Board that the internal affairs probe spans a wider range, including a review of events leading up to the shooting, than originally anticipated.
A chronology of BART news releases related to the New Year's Day shooting can be found at www.bart.gov in the sidebar titled "Latest on New Year's Day Shooting, Investigation."
The Legislative Analyst’s Office (LAO) has proposed an alternative budget package that includes shifting responsibility for supervision of approximately 71,000 low-level parolees from the State to the counties. This parole realignment would be financed in part by reallocating property tax revenue from water and wastewater districts into a newly created county Public Safety Realignment Account (PSRA). Under the LAO’s proposal, each county would shift 70% of countywide water and wastewater property tax revenue into its PSRA, unless a lower percentage of property taxes would be sufficient to support the realignment program. While the actual amount of tax revenue shifted from each district would ultimately be determined by the county boards of supervisors, the LAO estimates that, statewide, its proposal would shift approximately $188 million, or 50%, of water and wastewater district property tax revenue to county PSRAs.
Additional sources of financing for the proposed parole realignment include approximately $178 million from city Proposition 172 sales taxes and approximately $130 million from vehicle license fees currently retained by the Department of Motor Vehicles for administrative purposes.
To read more about the LAO's parole realignment proposal, click here.
On Saturday, October 13, 2007, the Governor signed the Firefighter's Procedural Bill of Rights Act into law. It is now codified in the California Government Code, sections 3250 – 3262.
This law closely parallels the Peace Officer Procedural Bill of Rights Act codified at sections 3300, et seq., of the California Government Code.
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