AB 594

Under current law, when a person who committed a crime petitions for release

from a correctional facility, escapes from a correctional facility, is released from

extended supervision or parole, petitions for a pardon, is placed into a community

setting, or is conditionally or permanently released from a mental health facility, the

victim of the person's crime is notified. If the victim of the crime was killed, the

victim's family receives notification. If the notification relates to a petition for early

release, sentence modification, or a pardon, the victim or the victim's family may

testify against the person's petition.

Under this bill, if the victim was a law enforcement officer and was killed by the

person, the law enforcement agency that employed the victim and the head of the

bargaining unit that represented the victim must be notified under the same

circumstances as a victim or the family of the victim. The bill affords the law

enforcement agency and the head of the bargaining unit the same opportunities to

testify against the person's petition for early release, sentence modification, or a

pardon.