SECTIONS 26290-26290.8

26290.  This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the SanJoaquin County Regional Justice Facility Financing Act.26290.1.  The Legislature hereby finds and declares that theexisting state of overcrowding in the jails, sheriff, and courtfacilities in San Joaquin County is so great as to significantlyimpede the administration of justice and create a situation whereinpersons who are a danger to society are required to be released intothat society for lack of adequate facilities to house them. TheLegislature further finds and declares that it is in the publicinterest to create the San Joaquin County Regional Justice FacilityFinancing Agency so that regional justice facility and preventionprogram needs may be addressed in an expeditious and appropriatefashion. The Legislature further finds and declares that it is in thepublic interest to allow the voters to approve a general tax for thegeneral governmental purposes of the San Joaquin County RegionalJustice Facility Financing Agency.26290.2.  "Bonds" means indebtedness and securities of any kind orclass, including bonds, notes, bond anticipation notes, andcommercial paper.26290.3.  "Agency" means the San Joaquin County Regional JusticeFacility Financing Agency.26290.4.  "County" means the County of San Joaquin.26290.5.  "Board of supervisors" means the Board of Supervisors ofthe County of San Joaquin.26290.6.  "Master plan" means the plan for construction andacquisition of adult detention facilities, sheriff facilities,functionally related court facilities, and structures necessary orconvenient thereto. The plan shall be developed and approved, and maybe amended from time to time, by the board of supervisors. Themaster plan may include, but is not limited to, the following: (a) The number of adult detention facilities, sheriff facilities,functionally related court facilities, to be constructed, furnished,or acquired. (b) The geographic location at which the facilities referenced insubdivision (a) shall be sited. (c) The time schedule according to which the facilities referencedin subdivision (a) shall be constructed, furnished, or acquired. (d) Construction standards which shall apply to facilitiesconstructed, furnished, or acquired pursuant to this chapter. (e) Design standards which shall apply to facilities constructed,furnished, or acquired pursuant to this chapter. (f) Those other requirements as the board of supervisors, incarrying out its responsibility for the provision of regionaldetention services, deems necessary and appropriate.26290.7.  "Prevention program" means a program, administered by thecounty, designed to decrease the number of inmates incarcerated incounty adult detention facilities by providing alternatives toincarceration, or by providing counseling, diversion, or interventionprograms, or by providing both. Alternatives to incarceration,include, but are not limited to, alternative work programs, workfurlough programs, half-way houses, and own recognizance services.Counseling, diversion, or intervention programs, include, but are notlimited to, drug and alcohol counseling, parole counseling, andpretrial screening.26290.8.  "Functionally related court facility" means a courtfacility that is used solely for criminal prosecutions and handlinginmates.