Postrelease community supervision: revocation: release on bail or own recognizance.

Existing law requires that persons released from prison after serving a prison term for a felony, with exceptions, be released into postrelease community supervision for a period not exceeding 3 years. Existing law provides for immediate, structured, and intermediate sanctions to punish violations of an offender's conditions of postrelease supervision. Existing law allows the revocation of postrelease supervision by a revocation hearing officer appointed by the court upon a finding that the person has violated the conditions of postrelease supervision. This bill would allow a person on postrelease supervision who has a revocation petition filed against him or her to file an application for bail or release on his or her own recognizance with the superior court. The bill would provide that bail or own recognizance release pending revocation of postrelease community supervision is a matter within the sole discretion of the court. The bill would require an application for bail or own recognizance release made pursuant to these provisions to be governed by the procedures set forth in existing law for the taking of bail and granting of own recognizance release and would state that its provisions do not prohibit a court from making any order authorized by those provisions.