• BSCC Executive Officers Appointed

    Governor Brown appoints Executive Officers to the BSCC...

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  • Dashboard of BSCC Programs & Services

    The BSCC is pleased to release an interactive dashboard of programs and services that we offer to local corrections systems. Use the dashboard to explore grant and program awards, construction awards, and training fund allocations to local corrections entities within the state.

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  • Board of State and Community Corrections (BSCC)

    Next Board Meeting – July 22, 2013 at the Department of Water Resources, 1416 Ninth Street, Sacramento, CA 95814. For information relating to Board meetings, agenda, and members...

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  • California Counties Practice Smart Justice

    California State Association of Counties (CSAC) spotlights four counties where staff has developed and implemented creative and successful programs that are making our communities safer and helping to reduce recidivism.

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  • Core Instructor Development Courses (CIDC) announced

    Standards & Training for Corrections (STC) is excited to announce upcoming regional CIDC dates and locations.

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California Public Safety Realignment

Under Assembly Bill 109, realignment shifts criminal justice program and fiscal responsibilities from the state to local government. - Read more

Dashboard of BSCC Programs & Services

The BSCC is pleased to release an interactive dashboard of programs and services that we offer to local corrections systems. Use the dashboard to explore grant and program awards, construction awards, and training fund allocations to local corrections entities within the state. - View Link

Evidence-Based Practices (EBP)

The mission of the BSCC, in part, is to promote a justice investment strategy that fits each county and is consistent with the integrated statewide goal of improved public safety through cost-effective, promising, and evidence-based strategies for managing criminal justice populations and juvenile justice populations. - Read more

The BSCC 3rd Quarterly Transition Progress Report

The information in this report focuses on the activities of the Board of State and Community Corrections (BSCC) in the assumption of its new responsibilities.  Through a collaborative strategic planning process with the Crime and Justice Institute and utilizing the priorities identified by the Board, the BSCC has developed four goals. These four goals are used as the basis of this third quarterly transition report that the BSCC is pleased to share with the legislature and stakeholders. - PDF

JJCPA Annual Report to the Legislature

The Juvenile Justice Crime Prevention Act (JJCPA) is a state funded initiative that supports juvenile probation programs with a record of reducing crime and delinquency among at-risk youth and young offenders.  In fiscal year (FY) 2011/12 the JJCPA supported 141 programs implemented by counties to address locally identified needs throughout the continuum of responses to juvenile crime. - Read more

YOBG Annual Report to the Legislature

The Youthful Offender Block Grant (YOBG) Program was established in 2007 with enactment of Senate Bill (SB) 81, and amended in 2009 by SB 13 of Extraordinary Session 4.  The YOBG legislation realigned the non-violent, non-serious, non-sex offender population within California’s juvenile justice population from state to local control.  In recognition of the increased county responsibility for supervising and rehabilitating youthful offenders subject to YOBG, the State provides annual funding in support of the program. - Read more

Service to Local Corrections Systems

BSCC divisions provide a wide-range of services to local corrections systems through inspections of local detention facilities, assistance in training of local corrections personnel, funding opportunities through grants programming, and assist with detention facility construction and funding. Read more