Dec 10, 2024
Advocacy | Public Safety and Emergency Management 2011 Criminal Justice RealignmentIn 2011, the Legislature enacted a comprehensive criminal justice realignment scheme whereby counties became responsible for addressing criminal offenders that had traditionally been the responsibility of the State. Under the provisions of Assembly Bill 109,...
Dec 10, 2024
Advocacy | Public Safety and Emergency Management Protecting Local CommunitiesCalifornia’s rural counties play a critical role in protecting their local communities. The California State Constitution requires each county to hold elections to elect both a County Sheriff and District Attorney. Both the County Sheriff...
Dec 10, 2024
Advocacy | Health Care and Social Services TelehealthAccess to healthcare in the most rural and remote parts of California have always been a concern. RCRC supports increasing the availability of telehealth in rural areas as an alternative way for rural citizens to...
Dec 10, 2024
Advocacy | Forest and Public Lands Stewardship About State Payment in Lieu of Taxes (PILT)California’s Payment-In-Lieu-of-Taxes (PILT) program was established in 1949 to offset adverse impacts to county property tax revenues that result when the state acquires private property for wildlife management areas. Fish & Game Code Section 1504...
Dec 10, 2024
Advocacy | Forest and Public Lands Stewardship Forestry ReformRCRC advocates strongly for increasing the pace and scale of forest management on California’s federal public lands. Most of these areas suffer from extreme overstocking of timber, creating an unhealthy forest that is susceptible to...
Dec 10, 2024
Advocacy | Forest and Public Lands Stewardship Fish and WildlifeRCRC member counties have land use and public trust responsibilities over resource-related issues, including fish and wildlife. The California Department of Fish and Wildlife (DFW) and the United States Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) are...
Dec 10, 2024
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Dec 10, 2024
Advocacy | Energy RCRC Open CPUC ProceedingsRCRC is a formal participant in seventeen active regulatory proceedings at the California Public Utilities Commission (“CPUC” or “Commission”). Since becoming a formal participant in the proceeding concerning how utilities safeguard their infrastructure and conduct...
Dec 10, 2024
Advocacy | Energy RCRC Engagement at the CPUC and the Office of Energy Infrastructure SafetyCalifornians have an expectation of safe, affordable, and reliability electricity. Unfortunately, reliability has suffered greatly over the last several years as utility-caused wildfires and utility bills have increased. Providing a balanced portfolio of renewable, non-traditional,...
Dec 10, 2024
Advocacy | County Operations State Regulatory Structure on HempIn December 2018, Congress enacted the 2018 Farm Bill, which included provisions that federally legalize hemp in any state that has a regulatory plan meeting a number of conditions (or accedes to a federal plan to be developed...