SF 4194 Summary

• Establishes a Public Safety Innovation Board in the Department of Public Safety with 15 members representing researchers, victims, criminal justice system participants, community boards, and law enforcement to oversee grant programs and public safety initiatives.

• Appropriates $55 million for local community innovation grants to support re-entry programs, victim services, homelessness assistance, crisis response teams, restorative justice, co-responder programs, juvenile diversion, community violence interruption, and blight elimination in high-crime areas.

• Appropriates $15 million for emergency community safety grants and $10 million for local co-responder grants to support crisis intervention partnerships and violence interruption programs.

• Requires portable recording system (body camera) policies that mandate activation during citizen contacts, indefinite retention of deadly force recordings, and victim family access to recordings within 7 days of incidents resulting in death.

• Appropriates $15 million each for local community policing grants and local investigation grants to law enforcement agencies for recruitment, officer retention, detective hiring, evidence processing, and victim services related to homicides and nonfatal shootings.