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<ns0:AuthorText authorType="LEAD_AUTHOR">Introduced by Senator Durazo</ns0:AuthorText>
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<ns0:Title> An act to add Chapter 2.15 (commencing with Section 68652) to Title 8 of the Government Code, relating to courts. </ns0:Title>
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<ns0:Subject>Judicial Council: eviction data reporting.</ns0:Subject>
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<html:p>Existing law, the Sargent Shriver Civil Counsel Act, requires legal counsel to be appointed to represent low-income parties in civil matters involving critical issues affecting basic human needs in courts selected by the Judicial Council. The act requires the Judicial Council to develop one or more programs to provide competitive grants to provide legal counsel to low-income persons who require legal services in specific types of civil matters, including, among others, housing-related matters, probate conservatorships, guardianships, and domestic violence and civil harassment restraining orders. Existing law requires the Judicial Council to consider various factors, including, among others, the unmet need for legal services in the geographic area to be served, in selecting and renewing participating programs. Existing law requires program applicants to, among other things, describe how
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<html:p>This bill would require courts to provide the Judicial Council, every month, with information regarding unlawful detainer cases, as specified, aggregated by ZIP Code. The bill would require the Judicial Council to format the
information every 4 months into an electronic spreadsheet and post the spreadsheet on its internet website.</html:p>
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Chapter 2.15 (commencing with Section 68652) is added to Title 8 of the
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(a)
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Each court shall report to the Judicial Council every month the total number of each of the following data points for unlawful detainer cases, aggregated by the ZIP Code of the premises in the lawsuit:
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(1)
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Cases filed each month.
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(2)
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Cases that were subject to default, stipulated, or other types of pretrial judgments already being tracked by the Judicial Council.
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(3)
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Cases that went to trial and, of those cases that went to trial, how many were a bench trial and how many were a jury trial.
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(4)
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Cases that were dismissed before trial at the plaintiff’s request.
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(b)
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The data points provided to the Judicial Council pursuant to subdivision (a) shall only pertain to unlawful detainer cases filed on or after January 1, 2027.
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(c)
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Every four months, the Judicial Council shall format all information received pursuant to subdivision (a) in
an electronic spreadsheet and publicly post the spreadsheet on its internet website.
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