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OTHER REPORTS AND PUBLICATIONS:
Criminal Law

Change of Venue in California: Fact Sheet (January 2003, PDF, 34 KB)
Overview of the assistance the AOC provides (as set forth in rules 4.150-4.162 of the California Rules of Court) when a court in which a criminal action is pending determines that the action should be transferred under section 1033 or 1034 of the Penal Code, including the procedure followed and related costs.

The Impact of the Three Strikes Law on Superior and Municipal Courts (September 1996, PDF, 240 KB)
Results of the second AOC Research and Planning Unit's survey, covering July through December 1995, to obtain information on the impact of the "three strikes" law on the courts.

Information on Crime Victims' Compensation (English; July 1997, PDF, 15 KB)
Pamphlet summarizes the compensation available to some victims of crime under California law as of January 1, 1997.

Probation Services Task Force Final Report (June 2003)
This report contains the findings and recommendations of the Probation Services Task Force, an 18-member body formed in August 2000 to undertake a comprehensive examination of probation in California.

Reports to the Legislature Pursuant to Penal Code Section 1170.45:
The Disposition of Criminal Cases According to the Race and Ethnicity of the Defendant (2001 - 2005)

The links below contain the reports submitted to the Legislature in 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004* and 2005.
(*The California Department of Justice (DOJ) indicated that the data set released in 2004, from which the report for that year normally would have been written, was incomplete. The more detailed 2005 report stands in as the update for both 2004 and 2005.)

2001 Report (PDF, 83 KB)
2002 Report (PDF, 117 KB)
2003 Report (PDF, 372 KB)
2004 Report* (see above)
2005 Report (PDF, 350 KB)

Uniform Bail and Penalty Schedules
For traffic, boating, forestry, fish and game, public utilities, parks and recreation, and business licensing cases.

You must contact the court where a case is filed to get local bail information for that court. The judges in each county adopt a countywide bail schedule that sets bail based on the requirements that apply to that jurisdiction. Each countywide bail schedule may have bail amounts that are different from the council's bail amounts.


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