The Legislature hereby finds and declares that the existing state of overcrowding in jail facilities in counties is so great as to significantly impede the administration of justice and create a situation wherein persons who are a danger to society may be required to be released into that society for lack of adequate facilities to house them.
The Legislature further finds and declares that it is in the public interest to create county regional justice facilities financing agencies so that regional adult and juvenile detention facilities, countywide law enforcement facilities, court facilities, and prevention program needs may be addressed in an expeditious and appropriate fashion.
The Legislature further finds and declares that it is in the public interest to allow the voters in each county the opportunity to approve a general tax for the general governmental purposes of county regional justice facilities financing agencies.
(Added by Stats. 1989, Ch. 1335, Sec. 1.5.)
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