Cal. PEN § 14119
This is the official text of Cal. PEN § 14119, part of California’s Penal Code — defines crimes and sets criminal procedure in California.
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(a) The Office of Emergency Services shall promote, organize, and conduct a series of one-day crime and violence prevention training workshops around the state. The Office of Emergency Services shall seek participation in the workshops from ethnically, linguistically, culturally, educationally, and economically diverse persons, agencies, organizations, and institutions.
(b) The training workshops shall have all of the following goals:
(1) To identify phenomena which are thought to be root causes of crime and violence.
(2) To identify local manifestations of those root causes.
(3) To examine the findings and recommendations of the California Commission on Crime Control and Violence Prevention.
(4) To focus on team building and interagency cooperation and coordination toward addressing the local problems of crime and violence.
(5) To examine the merits and necessity of a local crime and violence prevention effort.
(c) There shall be at least three workshops.
(b) The training workshops shall have all of the following goals:
(1) To identify phenomena which are thought to be root causes of crime and violence.
(2) To identify local manifestations of those root causes.
(3) To examine the findings and recommendations of the California Commission on Crime Control and Violence Prevention.
(4) To focus on team building and interagency cooperation and coordination toward addressing the local problems of crime and violence.
(5) To examine the merits and necessity of a local crime and violence prevention effort.
(c) There shall be at least three workshops.
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