TO: HONORABLE MAYOR AND MEMBERS OF THE CITY COUNCIL
FROM: Kim Summers, City Manager
PREPARED BY: Isaac Bravo, Management Analyst
SUBJECT:
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Consider Adopting a Resolution Supporting Proposition 36 - The Homelessness, Drug Addiction, and Theft Reduction Act
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RECOMMENDATION
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Adopt Resolution No. 24-4786 entitled: A Resolution of the City Council of the City of Murrieta, California, Supporting Proposition 36 - the Homelessness, Drug Addiction, and Theft Reduction Act.
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PRIOR ACTION/VOTE
None.
CITY COUNCIL GOAL
Provide a high level of innovative public safety.
BACKGROUND
The City of Murrieta's Legislative Platform includes provisions supporting efforts that strengthen law enforcement and public safety. While the City may advocate for various legislative items pending before the Governor, State Senate, or Assembly, State law only permits the City Council to support or oppose information regarding a proposed ballot measure and adopt a Resolution if deemed appropriate.
The "California for Safer Communities" Coalition proposed the "Homelessness, Drug Addiction, and Theft Reduction Act," which qualified for inclusion on the 2024 November Statewide ballot. The measure aims to reinstate penalties for trafficking hard drugs, including fentanyl, increase penalties for persons who engage in repeated theft, address "smash and grabs" and organized retail theft, provide diversion programs to repeat offenders and expand judicial discretion on where sentences are served.
The measure includes provisions related to fentanyl:
1) The court must provide an advisory statement to a person convicted or pleading no contest to a hard drug charge that their sale or furnishing of drugs or pills that lead to the death of another person could result in a homicide charge.
2) Adds fentanyl to the list of substances that result in a felony punishable by two, three, or four years of incarceration if possessed by a person while armed with an op...
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