A criminal justice administrative fee for booking or other processing in the maximum amount of $102.42 is imposed. The fee is imposed upon a city, special district, school district, community college district, college, or university for each person arrested by an employee of that entity and brought to a County detention facility or jail for booking or detention. For purposes of this subsection, an "employee" shall include any person making an arrest on behalf of an agency enumerated above, including those arrests made on behalf of an agency contracting for law enforcement services with the County. The criminal justice administrative fee shall apply to any arrest attributable to an above-specified entity where an arrestee is brought to a County detention facility or jail for booking or detention.
The criminal justice administrative fee shall only apply to original or "fresh" arrests, and shall not apply to holds placed, commitments, warrants, remands, bail bond surrenders, enroutes (temporary holds placed by agencies transporting prisoners), temporary detention at a court facility where the arrestee has been previously booked at a County detention facility, orders of production, orders of return, rollups (inmates returning from work release), or escapees from county, state or federal detention or corrections facilities. The criminal justice administrative fee shall not be charged when multiple law enforcement agencies participate in a particular arrest and one of the agencies is the San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department not acting on behalf of a contract law enforcement city, or when a formal task force, as defined by Government Code § 29550(b)(8), has made the arrest, or where an arrest is made during any riot, disturbance, or event that is subject to a declaration of state of emergency by the Governor, or where such fee is otherwise prohibited by law.
The criminal justice administrative fee shall apply to all applicable booking or other processing services rendered on or after July 1, 1990. The County shall prepare and send invoices to each city, special district, school district, community college district, college, or university, and said invoices shall include the name of each arrestee for which an agency is billed and the date(s) the services were provided. An invoice shall be due and payable 30 days after the date of the invoice. Delinquent fees may be reimbursed through offset, provided such offset is not prohibited by law.
(Am. Ord. 4457, passed - -2023)