This chapter is enacted for the purpose of implementing Article 12 (commencing with Section 29550) of Chapter 2 of Division 3 of Title 3 of the Government Code so as to provide reimbursement to the County for the costs incurred by it in connection with the booking and other processing of persons into County Jail facilities.
(SCC 0814 § 1, 1990; SCC 0979 § 1, 1995)
The Board of Supervisors hereby finds that unless the County is reimbursed for such booking and other processing costs, it will be required to fund those costs from revenue that would otherwise fund both Countywide and unincorporated area services for which the County is responsible. Under these circumstances, it is most equitable for such costs to be borne by either the arresting agency or, in cases where the County is not authorized to levy the booking and processing fee on the arresting agency, the arrestee.
(SCC 0814 § 1, 1990; SCC 0979 § 1, 1995)
The definitions set forth in this section shall govern the interpretation of such terms as used in this chapter.
a. 
"Designated public agencies" shall mean those public agencies upon which the County may impose a booking and processing fee pursuant to Government Code Section 29550.
b. 
"Booking and other processing costs" shall mean the County's actual administrative costs, including applicable overhead costs as permitted by federal Circular A-87 standards, incurred in booking or otherwise processing arrested persons.
c. 
"Actual administrative costs" mean those costs for functions that are performed in order to receive an arrestee into a County jail facility. Operating expenses of the County jail facility including capitol costs and those costs involved in the housing, feeding and care of inmates shall not be included in calculating actual administrative costs. Actual administrative costs may include the cost of notifying any designated public agency of any change in the fee charged by the County pursuant to this chapter. Actual administrative costs may also include any one or more of the following as related to receiving an arrestee into a County jail facility:
1. 
The searching, wristbanding, bathing, clothing, fingerprinting, photographing, and medical and mental screening of an arrestee.
2. 
Document preparation, retrieval, updating, filing and court scheduling related to receiving an arrestee into the detention facility.
3. 
Warrant service, processing and detainer.
4. 
Inventory of an arrestee's money and creation of cash accounts.
5. 
Inventory and storage of an arrestee's property.
6. 
Inventory, laundry, and storage of an arrestee's clothing.
7. 
The classification of an arrestee.
8. 
The direct costs of automated services utilized in subdivisions 1-7 above.
9. 
Unit management and supervision of the County jail facility as related to subdivisions 1-7 above.
d. 
"Brought to" means physically transported to a County jail facility and presented to facility staff for booking or detention.
e. 
"County jail facility" includes the Rio Cosumnes Correctional Center and the Sacramento County Main Jail.
f. 
"County" means the County of Sacramento.
(SCC 0814 § 1, 1990; SCC 0979 § 1, 1995; SCC 1028 § 1, 1996)
a. 
There is hereby levied by the County a booking and processing fee on designated public agencies for the booking and processing costs incurred by the County with respect to any person arrested and brought to a County jail facility by an employee of that designated public agency for booking or detention. Consistent with Government Code Section 29550(a)(1) for the 2005-06 fiscal year and each fiscal year thereafter, the fee imposed by the County shall not exceed one-half of the County's actual administrative costs incurred in booking or otherwise processing arrested persons.
b. 
Subject to the limitations of Government Code Section 29551(b)(1) and, notwithstanding the provisions of subdivision (a) of this section, the booking and processing fee shall not be levied on designated public agencies under the following circumstances:
1. 
Designated public agencies shall not be charged fees for arrests on any bench warrant for failure to appear in court or on any arrest warrant issued in connection with a crime not committed within the jurisdiction of the arresting agency.
2. 
Designated public agencies shall not be charged fees for a person who is ordered by a court to be remanded to a County jail facility except that the County may charge a fee to recover the direct costs for those functions required to book a person pursuant to Penal Code Section 853.6(g)
3. 
Designated public agencies shall not be charged fees for arrests made pursuant to arrest warrants originating outside their jurisdiction.
4. 
Designated public agencies shall not be charged fees for parole violation arrests or probation-ordered returns to custody unless a new charge has been filed for a crime committed in the jurisdiction of the arresting agency.
5. 
Designated public agencies shall not be charged fees for arrests made during any riot, disturbance or event that is subject to a state of emergency declared by the Governor.
6. 
Designated public agencies shall not be charged fees for the arrest of a prisoner who has escaped from a county, state, or federal detention or corrections facility.
7. 
Designated public agencies shall not be charged fees for arrestees held in temporary detention at a court facility for purposes of arraignment when the arrestee has been previously booked at the arresting agency's detention facility.
8. 
Designated public agencies shall not be charged fees for arrests made by their officers who are assigned to a formal multiagency task force in which the County is a participant. Formal multiagency task force means one that has been established by written agreement of the participating entities.
c. 
The exemption of any designated public agency pursuant to this section or pursuant to state law shall not exempt the person arrested from the payment of fees for booking or other processing.
(SCC 0814 § 1, 1990; SCC 0979 § 1, 1995; SCC 1028 § 2, 1996; SCC 1359 § 1, 2007)
There is hereby levied by the County on any person brought to a County jail facility pursuant to any arrest by either a County officer or agent or an officer or agent of any governmental entity that is not a designated public agency a criminal justice administration fee for the booking and processing costs incurred by the County in booking or otherwise processing any such person. Such fee shall be levied only if the arrestee is convicted of a criminal offense related to the arrest.
(SCC 0814 § 1, 1990; SCC 0979 § 1, 1995)
a. 
The fees levied pursuant to Sections 3.38.040 and 3.38.050 shall be established for each County jail facility by Resolution of the Board of Supervisors on an annual basis beginning in fiscal year 1990-91. Any increase in the fees shall be adopted prior to the beginning of each fiscal year. No increase in the fees shall be adopted unless the County has provided each designated public agency 45 days written notice of a public meeting held pursuant to Section 54952.2 of the Government Code on the fee increase and the County has conducted the public meeting. Such fees shall be established on a per person basis and calculated by dividing the number of persons brought to the County jail facility in the fiscal year previous to the fiscal year in which the fee is adopted into the booking and processing costs for that County jail facility in such previous fiscal year. For example, the actual calculated booking fee for fiscal year 1994-95 shall become the booking fee charged in fiscal year 1996-97. There will be a one time exception to this for the Rio Cosumnes Correctional Center. The fiscal year 1996-97 booking fee shall be $37.76, the budgeted fiscal year 1995-96 rate, versus the $60.13 actual fiscal year 1994-95 rate.
b. 
If the classification procedure at a County jail facility is separate and distinct from the intake and booking procedure, a separate classification fee shall be established for that facility. Such fee shall be established on a per person basis by dividing the number of persons processed for classification in the County jail facility in the fiscal year previous to the fiscal year in which the fee is adopted into the costs for that County jail facility in such previous fiscal year. For example, the actual calculated classification rate for fiscal year 1994-95 shall become the classification rate charged for fiscal year 1996-97.
(SCC 0814 § 1, 1990; SCC 0979 § 1, 1995)
a. 
Designated public agencies shall be billed on a monthly basis for the booking and processing fee levied by Section 3.38.040. The County shall determine after the end of each month during the fiscal year the number of persons who have been arrested and brought to each County jail facility by employees of that designated public agency during the previous month. The monthly invoice for each designated public agency shall be calculated by multiplying the number of persons arrested and brought to each County jail facility by employees of that designated public agency by the per person booking and processing fee and, if applicable, by the per person classification fee.
b. 
The County shall transmit a monthly invoice, except for the months of July, August and September where the County may transmit a combined invoice for all three months, to all designated public agencies that have incurred a monthly booking and processing fee at a County jail facility in the preceding month. Invoices shall be due and payable upon receipt.
(SCC 0814 § 1, 1990; SCC 0979 § 1, 1995; SCC 1028 § 3, 1996)