(a)
(1)The Community Policing and Mentoring for School Safety Pilot Program is hereby established. The Community Policing and Mentoring for School Safety Pilot Program shall be administered by the State Department of Education for the purpose of reducing juvenile crime and delinquency. The Superintendent of Public Instruction shall award grants to the ABC Unified School District and the Downey Unified School District to accomplish the goals set forth in subdivision (b) of Section 49350.5.
(2)
Programs funded pursuant to this article may include, but not necessarily be limited to, all of the following methods of community policing:
(A)
Teaching conflict resolution classes.
(B)
Teaching crime prevention classes.
(C)
Operating afterschool programs.
(D)
Provide mentoring.
(E)
Patrolling the community that encompasses the school district participating in the Community Policing and Mentoring for School Safety Pilot Program.
(b)
Each school district that receives a grant under this article shall be required to establish a multiagency juvenile justice coordinating council that shall develop and implement a continuum of community-based responses to juvenile crime in the school setting.
(c)
The coordinating councils established pursuant to subdivision (b) shall, at a minimum, include the school district, law enforcement agency, a volunteer police representative, parents, and at least two community organizations. The coordinating councils shall develop a comprehensive, multiagency plan that identifies resources and strategies for providing an effective targeted community policing plan, for activities relating to prevention, intervention, supervision, and treatment of at-risk youths in school settings.