Senate Bill 1727 Summary

• Establishes the Anti-human trafficking grant fund administered by the Department of Emergency and Military Affairs to distribute monies to programs that reduce human trafficking through law enforcement assistance or victim services and training.

• Creates a community treatment program for imprisoned women and their children, allowing the Department of Corrections to contract with a nonprofit to provide trauma-informed substance abuse treatment, mental health services, and support for maternal-child bonding, with capacity for up to 20 women in year one and 50 women annually thereafter.

• Establishes the Major Incident Division within the Department of Public Safety to conduct independent investigations of critical force incidents, including firearm discharges and uses of deadly force by peace officers, requiring all law enforcement agencies to use the division, regional task forces, or other agencies for such investigations.

• Restructures the Criminal Justice Enhancement Fund distribution percentages to allocate monies among the Department of Public Safety forensics fund, juvenile corrections, prosecuting attorneys, courts, sheriffs, and other criminal justice agencies.

• Creates the State Aid for Juvenile Dependency Proceedings Fund to provide funding to counties for public defenders and contract indigent defense counsel handling juvenile dependency cases, distributed based on increases in dependency case filings above 2012-2015 baseline levels.