California Military and Veterans Code 58 – (a) Notwithstanding Sections 9795 and 10231.5 of the Government …
(a) Notwithstanding Sections 9795 and 10231.5 of the Government Code, on or before July 1 of each year, the department shall report the following information to the Governor, the Legislature, the Senate Committee on Veterans Affairs, and the Assembly Committee on Veterans Affairs, the Attorney General, and the United States Attorney for each district in California:
(1) For the previous federal fiscal year:
Terms Used In California Military and Veterans Code 58
- Fiscal year: The fiscal year is the accounting period for the government. For the federal government, this begins on October 1 and ends on September 30. The fiscal year is designated by the calendar year in which it ends; for example, fiscal year 2006 begins on October 1, 2005 and ends on September 30, 2006.
- Oversight: Committee review of the activities of a Federal agency or program.
(A) The policies, procedures, and processes in place or implemented by the Sexual Assault Prevention and Response (SAPR) Program during that federal fiscal year in response to incidents of sexual assault and sexual harassment.
(B) An assessment of the implementation of the policies and procedures on the prevention, response, and oversight of sexual assaults and sexual harassment in the military to determine the effectiveness of SAPR policies and programs, including an assessment of how service efforts executed federal Department of Defense SAPR priorities.
(C) Matrices for restricted and unrestricted reports of the number of sexual assaults and sexual harassment involving service members, that includes case synopses, and disciplinary actions taken in substantiated cases and relevant information. Reporting on restricted cases shall be limited to aggregated statistical data so that the privacy of victims is protected. Reporting on unrestricted cases shall be limited to aggregated statistical data, but shall include, at a minimum, the following subcategories:
(i) Types of crimes.
(ii) Types of victims.
(iii) Status of investigations.
(iv) Status of prosecutions.
(v) Status of department administrative actions.
(D) Analyses of the matrices of the number of sexual assaults and sexual harassment allegations involving service members. The analyses shall include analysis of data and trends in comparison to state data from previous years and, to the degree possible, comparisons of state data and trends and data and trends from other branches and components of the United States Armed Forces, including both active and reserve components, including the National Guard of other states and territories.
(2) For the current federal fiscal year, any plans for the prevention of and response to sexual assault and sexual harassment, specifically in the areas of advocacy, healthcare provider and medical response, mental health, counseling, investigative services, legal services, and chaplain response.
(b) The department shall also make the information described in subdivision (a) available on its public internet website in the form of aggregated statistical data. In order to protect victims’ privacy, this information shall not include case synopses.
(Amended by Stats. 2021, Ch. 183, Sec. 2. (SB 352) Effective January 1, 2022.)