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February 9, 2001 YAROSLAVSKY CONFIRMED TO STATE BOARD OF CORRECTIONS The State Senate this week formally confirmed Supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky as a member of the California Board of Corrections. Yaroslavsky has served on the Board since his appointment by Gov. Gray Davis in March 2000. California established the Board in 1944 to help develop and maintain standards to build and operate local jails and juvenile detention facilities, and to hire and train local corrections and probation personnel. The Board also inspects local detention facilities; awards training funds and administers grants for facility construction, programs concerning juvenile crime and delinquency, and mentally ill offenders; and conducts studies involving public safety. Yaroslavsky said that his priorities this year for the Board include distributing AB 1913 (Cardenas) juvenile justice grants, and awarding state funding to modernize and replace overcrowded juvenile justice facilities. Yaroslavsky is one of 13 members, 10 of whom are appointed by the Governor subject to Senate confirmation, and three of whom are designated in statute. Appointees are drawn from local criminal justice officials and the general public, while the statutory members include the Secretary of the Youth and Adult Correctional Agency, who chairs the BOC, and the directors of the Departments of Corrections and California Youth Authority. The Board holds bimonthly public meetings in various locations around the state. Its next scheduled meeting is Thursday, March 15, 2001 in Riverside County.
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