SACRAMENTO — While sheriffs and prosecutors are trying to figure out how to pay for the governor’s plan to shift parole violators from state to local oversight, many judges are asking, “Just how did this criminal realignment become law?”
Some judges say the Administrative Office of the Courts and its team of lobbyists did not do enough to stop Assembly Bill 109, legislation signed earlier this month that, among other things, would put judges in charge of parole revocation hearings. Currently, that task is left to deputy commissioners with the Board of Parole Hearings.
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