AB 157: Public safety.

This bill aims to improve public safety by making changes to the community treatment program for women with children. It would allow for longer-term contracts between the state and community facilities, and prioritize certain programs. The bill also exempts contracts related to the state public defender from certain procurement requirements. Additionally, the bill makes changes to the prison industry authority and board, renaming them to focus on correctional training and rehabilitation. It also expands the authority of the director of in-custody death review to examine and reproduce records from local detention facilities. The bill modifies the calculation of performance incentives for community corrections, shifting from an estimate of prevented incarceration to actual numbers. It also makes a new appropriation to the state community corrections performance incentives fund and establi…