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AB 1839
(Alanis)
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Peace officers: education and hiring grants
Would, subject to an appropriation, establish the Law Enforcement Officer Grant Program under the administration of the Student Aid Commission to provide grants of up to $6,000 per year to individuals enrolled in a modern policing degree program at a California community college who commit to work for 4 years as a peace officer at a law enforcement agency, as specified. The bill would require grant recipients to agree to repay the grant to the state if certain conditions for the grant are not met, except as specified. The bill would require, subject to an appropriation, the chancellor’s office to develop, in consultation with specified entities, materials to be distributed to counselors’ offices in schools serving grades 9 to 12, inclusive. The bill would require those materials to inform high school students about the existence of the modern policing degree program and the grant program described above, among other things. The bill would require the chancellor’s office to particularly target the materials for students of historically underserved and disadvantaged communities with barriers to higher education access.
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Introduced: 1/6/2024
Status: 5/1/2024-In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to suspense file.
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AB 2020
(Bonta)
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Survivors of Human Trafficking Support Act
Under current law, human trafficking is a crime and law enforcement officers who are assigned field and investigative duties are required to complete minimum training pertaining to the handling of human trafficking complaints. Current law generally provides support services for individuals who are survivors of human trafficking, including public social services and address confidentiality, as specified. Existing law authorizes each county to establish an interagency sexual assault response team. Current law requires each county with a sexual assault response team to meet certain requirements. This bill would require a county that has an interagency sexual assault response team to establish a survivor review board, for the purpose of soliciting, accepting, and reviewing feedback from survivors regarding their experience with service providers, as specified. This bill would also require POST to create guidelines for law enforcementpersonnel interactions with survivors of human trafficking. Law enforcement agencies would have until January 1, 2026 to establish and maintain a written policy regarding interactions with survivors of human trafficking based upon these guidelines.
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Last Amend: 4/9/2024
Status: 5/8/2024-In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to suspense file
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AB 2042
(Jackson)
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Police canines: standards and training
Would require the Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training, on or before January 1, 2026, to develop standards and training guidelines, as specified, for the use of canines by law enforcement. The bill would require each law enforcement agency in California, on or before January 1, 2027, to adopt a policy for the use of canines that, at a minimum, complies with the standards developed by the commission, and to require regular and periodic training for all canines and canine handlers that covers, at a minimum, the training guidelines developed by the commission. Because the bill would impose additional requirements on local law enforcement agencies, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.
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Last Amend: 3/21/2024
Status: 5/1/2024-In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to suspense file.
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AB 2138
(Ramos)
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Peace officers: tribal police pilot project
Current federal law authorizes tribal governments to employ tribal police for the enforcement of tribal law on tribal lands. Current federal law requires the State of California to exercise criminal jurisdiction on Indian lands. Current state law deems a tribal police officer who has been deputized or appointed by a county sheriff as a reserve or auxiliary deputy to be a peace officer in the State of California. This bill would, from January 1, 2025, until January 1, 2028, establish a pilot program under the Department of Justice granting peace officer authority to certain tribal police officers on Indian lands and elsewhere in the state under specified circumstances. The bill would designate 3 tribal entities authorized to participate, would set certain minimum qualifications and training requirements for a tribal officer to act pursuant to this authority, and would place certain requirements on the employing tribe, including a limited waiver of sovereign immunity, and the adoption of a tribal law or resolution authorizing that exercise of authority and providing for public access to certain records. The bill would require the Department of Justice to provide ongoing monitoring and evaluation and to prepare and submit reports to the Legislature, as specified.
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Last Amend: 4/18/2024
Status: 5/1/2024-In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to suspense file.
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AB 2541
(Bains)
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Peace officer training: wandering
Would require the Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training (POST), in consultation with specified subject matter experts and on or before January 1, 2026, to develop guidelines addressing wandering associated with Alzheimer’s disease, autism, and dementia, as specified.
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Introduced: 2/13/2024
Status: In Senate. 5/1/2024-Referred to Com. on PUB S.
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AB 2621
(Gabriel)
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Law Enforcement Training
Current law requires the Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training, in consultation with specified subject matter experts, to develop a course of instruction that trains law enforcement on, among other things, indicators of hate crimes and techniques, responses to hate crime waves against certain groups, including Arab and Islamic communities, and methods to handle incidents of hate crimes in a noncombative manner. This bill would require instruction to include identifying when a gun violence restraining order is appropriate to prevent a hate crime and the procedure for seeking a gun violence restraining order. The bill would additionally require instruction on responses to hate crime waves against specified groups, including the LGBTQ and Jewish communities.
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Last Amend: 4/4/2024
Status: In Senate. 5/8/2024-Referred to Com. on PUB S.
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AB 2710
(Lackey)
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Peace officers: active shooter incidents
Would require the Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training (POST) to convene a panel of law enforcement experts to report to the Legislature and the commission, by January 1, 2027, specified topics related to active shooter incidents, including successful trainings and response protocols that have been demonstrated in active shooter incidents and the use of school resource officers on campus for threat prevention, detection, and assessment. The bill would repeal these provisions as of January 1, 2031.
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Last Amend: 4/8/2024
Status: 5/8/2024-In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to suspense file.
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AB 2923
(Jones-Sawyer)
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Peace officers: public complaints
Current law requires each department or agency that employs peace officer to establish a procedure to investigate complaints by members of the public against the personnel of the department or agency. This bill would require a form used during the complaint process to include a provision inquiring whether the complaint includes an allegation of racial or identify profiling and a space to describe the allegation. The bill would define “complaint” for these purposes to mean a report, given either in writing or verbally, that brings to the attention of a department or agency an incident during which the complainant perceives that a department or agency employee engaged in misconduct, as specified.
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Last Amend: 4/17/2024
Status: 4/25/2024-Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(5). (Last location was PUB. S. on 3/4/2024)
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AB 3021
(Kalra)
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Criminal procedure: interrogations
Current law prohibits the prosecuting attorney, attorney for the defendant, or investigator for either the prosecution or the defendant from interviewing, questioning, or speaking to a victim or witness whose name has been disclosed by the defendant pursuant to current law without first clearly identifying themself and identifying the full name of the agency by whom they are employed, and identifying whether they represent, or have been retained by, the prosecution or the defendant. Under current law, if an interview takes place in person, the party is also required to show the victim or witness a business card, official badge, or other form of official identification before commencing the interview or questioning. This bill would require a peace officer, as defined, a prosecuting attorney, or an investigator for the prosecution, prior to interviewing a family member of a person who has been killed or seriously injured by a peace officer, to clearly identify themself, if the interview takes place in person, to show identification, and to state specified information, including that the family member has the right to ask about the status of their family member prior to answering questions, has the right to remain silent, and before speaking with the interviewer, can consult with a trusted person and can have that person with them while they speak to the interviewer.
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Introduced: 2/16/2024
Status: 4/18/2024-Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
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AB 3038
(Essayli)
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School safety: armed school resource officers
Existing law authorizes the governing board of a school district to establish a security department under the supervision of a chief of security as designated by, and under the direction of, the superintendent of the school district. Existing law also authorizes the governing board of a school district to establish a school police department under the supervision of a school chief of police and to employ peace officers.This bill would require a school district or charter school to hire or contract with at least one armed school resource officer, as defined, authorized to carry a loaded firearm to be present at each school of the school district or charter school during regular school hours and any other time when pupils are present on campus, phased in by certain grade spans, as provided. By imposing an additional requirement on school districts and charter schools, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.
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Last Amend: 4/1/2024
Status: 4/25/2024-Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(5). (Last location was ED. on 3/11/2024)
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AB 3241
(Pacheco)
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Law enforcement: police canines
Would require the Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training (POST) to adopt uniform, minimum guidelines regarding the use of canines by law enforcement, including legal standards established by the bill, and to certify courses of training for all law enforcement canine handlers and those law enforcement supervisors directly overseeing canine programs, as specified. The bill would require, on or before July 1, 2025, each law enforcement agency to maintain a policy for the use of canines by the agency that, at a minimum, complies with the guidelines adopted by POST, and would require law enforcement agencies to establish a training regimen that includes a course certified by the commission. Because the bill would impose additional duties on local law enforcement agencies, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.
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Introduced: 2/16/2024
Status: 5/1/2024-In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to suspense file.
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SB 400
(Wahab)
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Peace officers: confidentiality of records
The California Public Records Act generally requires public records to be open for inspection by the public. Current law provides numerous exceptions to this requirement. Under current law, the personnel records of peace officers and custodial officers are confidential and not subject to public inspection. Current law provides certain exemptions to this confidentiality, including the reports, investigations, and findings of certain incidents involving the use of force by a peace officer. This bill would clarify that this confidentiality does not prohibit an agency that formerly employed a peace officer or custodial officer from disclosing the termination for cause of that officer, as specified.
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Last Amend: 1/25/2024
Status: 2/29/2024-Signed by the Governor
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SB 1020
Senator Bradford
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Law enforcement agency regulations: shooting range targets
Current law requires law enforcement agencies to maintain specified policies, including policies regulating the use of force and the use of certain defensive weapons. Current law requires each peace officer to complete all pre-service and in-service training mandated by the Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training. This bill would require each law enforcement agency and police academy to prohibit the use, as specified, of ethnic shooting targets, as defined.
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Last Amend: 3/19/2024
Status: 5/7/2024-Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
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SB 1026
(Smallwood-Cuevas)
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School safety: law enforcement agencies: contracts
Current law authorizes the governing board of a school district to contract with a private licensed security agency to ensure the safety of school district personnel and pupils and the security of the real and personal property of the school district when the personnel normally required to provide those services fail to do so because of an emergency or when such an emergency necessitates additional security services, as provided. This bill would require the governing board of a school district that establishes a security department or police department, and the governing board or body of a local educational agency, as defined, that enters into a contract on or after January 1, 2025, with a local police or sheriff’s department or private licensed security agency to provide school security services, to do certain things, including specify the parameters on the use of weapons, including, but not limited to, handcuffs, pepper spray, batons, and firearms, on a school campus. By imposing new duties on local educational agencies, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.
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Last Amend: 3/11/2024
Status: 4/25/2024-Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(5). (Last location was ED. on 2/14/2024)
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SB 1122
(Seyarto)
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Peace officers: educational requirements
Current law requires the office of the Chancellor of the California Community Colleges to develop a modern policing degree program, with the Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training and other stakeholders to serve as advisors, as specified, and to submit a report on recommendations to the Legislature outlining a plan to implement the program on or before June 1, 2023. Current law requires the report to include, among other things, recommendations to include both the modern policing degree program and a bachelor’s degree in the discipline of their choosing as minimum education requirements for employment as a peace officer. Current law requires the commission to adopt the recommended criteria within 2 years of when the office of the Chancellor of the California Community Colleges submits its report to the Legislature. This bill would specify that a bachelor’s degree or an associate’s degree required for employment as a peace officer under these provisions may be obtained after completion of the Peace Officer Standards and Training program and within 36 months of employment as a peace officer.
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Last Amend: 3/18/2024
Status: In Assembly. 4/29/2024-Referred to Com. on PUB. S.
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SB 1264
(Grove)
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Employment discrimination: cannabis use.
Current law prohibits an employer from discriminating against a person in hiring, termination, or a term or condition of employment, or otherwise penalizing a person because of the person’s use of cannabis off the job and away from the workplace or an employer-required drug screening test that has found the person to have nonpsychoactive cannabis metabolites in their hair, blood, urine, or other bodily fluids. Current law exempts certain applicants and employees from those provisions, including applicants and employees hired for positions that require a federal government background investigation or security clearance, as specified. This bill would exempt from the provision prohibiting employers from discriminating against a person for use of cannabis off the job and away from the workplace applicants and employees in sworn positions within law enforcement agencies who have certain functions, including functions related civil enforcement matters or coroner functions.
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Last Amend: 4/29/2024
Status: In Senate Appropriations. 5/3/2024-Set for hearing May 13.
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SB 1489
(McGuire)
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Peace officers: Peace Officer Standards Accountability Advisory Board
Current law creates the Peace Officer Standards Accountability Advisory Board, the Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training, and the Peace Officer Standards Accountability Division. Current law requires the board to report annually on the activities of the division, board, and commission relating to peace officer certification, including the number of applications for certification, the events reported, the number of investigations conducted, and the number of certificates surrendered or revoked. This bill would require the board to prepare the report no later than February 1 of each year.
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Last Amend: 3/20/2024
Status: In Senate Appropriations. 5/3/2024-Set for hearing May 13.
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SB 1518
(Committee on Public Safety)
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Public safety omnibus
Current law requires law enforcement agencies to provide victims with specified information about victims’ rights and resources. This bill would fix an erroneous cross-reference in these provisions. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
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Last Amend: 4/16/2024
Status: 5/7/2024-Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar.
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