POST Monthly Report

February 2019

Keeping you up to date on POST projects

New Self-Paced Course now Available on the POST Learning Portal

A suicidal caller can be especially difficult to handle. What do you say? What do you not say? How do you keep the caller on the line? A new, self-paced training course called, “Callers in Crisis: Suicidal Callers”, is available on the POST Learning Portal to help address these questions and more. While the focus is mostly for call takers who handle suicidal callers, it covers techniques and situations that can help all learners in empathizing and gathering the information they need. Available 24/7 on the POST Learning Portal, the course is worth four hours of CPT credit upon completion.

POST would like to thank the many agencies and experts who helped at various stages with the development of the course, especially the core team of: Rosanna McKinney, Special Consultant, Training Program Services, Commission on POST; Jamie Hudson, Dispatch Supervisor, Elk Grove Police Department; Suzee Meno, Dispatch Lead, Alameda Police Department; and Liseanne Wick, Director of Suicide Prevention, WellSpace Health.

Questions regarding “Callers in Crisis: Suicidal Callers” may be directed to Information Technology Specialist, Rayanne Rogers, Learning Technology Resources Bureau, at (916) 227-3912.

Training Manager Course Presented in Windsor

On February 5-7, 2019, 24 students attended the 24-hour Training Manager Course presented by the Santa Rosa Junior College Public Safety Training Center. The course is designed for newly assigned training managers. Topics included developing a training plan, liability issues, and management of training records. Additionally, POST staff presented information on the POST Website, the Learning Portal, course certification, POST regulations, and agency compliance inspections.

Questions regarding the Training Manager Course may be directed to Senior Consultant Karen Lozito, Training Delivery and Compliance Bureau, at (916) 227-0471.

POST Learning Portal

The 2017/2018 CPT cycle has been the busiest for the POST Learning Portal since its inception. Officers and dispatchers completed a record number of training hours (524,106 hours) on the POST Learning Portal. This accounts for 7% of all POST training completed this CPT cycle. Launched in December 2005, the Learning Portal has become an increasingly popular resource for agencies to meet training needs, including mandated training, and to fulfill the POST requirement of 24 hours of CPT training every two years. Officers and dispatchers can currently access 21 self-paced training courses and hundreds of different resources on the Portal, including homeland security videos, and short roll-call videos.

Questions or comments regarding the Learning Portal may be directed to Steven Eberly, Learning Technology Resources Bureau, at (916) 227-2509.

Scenario Manager Course

On February 5-9, 2019, POST’s Basic Training Bureau hosted a 27-hour Scenario Manager Course at POST Headquarters in West Sacramento. The course was attended by 26 students, representing 18 basic academies from throughout the state, and is required for basic academy scenario managers, prior to managing scenario testing. During the course, students learned and discussed scenario competencies, test development, testing and remedial training requirements, and scenario test security protocols.

Questions regarding the Scenario Manager Course may be directed to Staff Services Manager I (Specialist) Anita Finner, Basic Training Bureau, at (916) 227-3901.

POST Presents Training Coordinator Course

On February 20-21, 2019, POST presented a 16-hour course that was hosted by the Santa Ana Police Department. The course is designed to teach a newly assigned training manager to learn the fundamentals of the job within a law enforcement organization. The course teaches students the training manager’s role, POST Website and resources, POST training and background compliance, legal issues associated with training, mandatory and legislative mandates, Electronic Data Interchange (EDI), and processes for course certification.

This course combines the main training topics in the POST Training Manager’s Course and the POST Training Administrators Course into one course.

If you are interested in hosting this course in the future, or if you would like further information regarding the Training Coordinator Course please contact Senior Consultant Christine Ford, Training Delivery and Compliance Bureau, at (916) 227-0472.

Meet the New POST Employees

Anita Finner

Staff Services Manager I

Basic Training Bureau

Anita Finner has 24 years of law enforcement experience. She began her law enforcement career with the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) in October 1991. In 2012, she worked with the Rio Hondo Regional Training Center as an instructor/scheduling coordinator. Anita retired from the LAPD in 2016 and became the physical fitness coordinator/scheduling coordinator for the Stanislaus County Regional Training Center. She earned her Bachelor’s Degree in Criminal Justice Management from Union Institute & University.

Anita started with POST on February 1, 2019 and is currently assigned as a Staff Services Manager I (Specialist) in the Basic Training Bureau.

Legislative Update

Status of Current Legislation

The following is Legislation assigned to POST in the 2019-20 session and Legislation of interest to POST and Law Enforcement partners. Note: updates were made on 3/12/2019.

View a detailed report on legislative matters pertaining to law enforcement not assigned to POST.

Correction to January Legislative Update: AB 2504 (Low): Peace Officer training: sexual orientation and gender identity. This bill was chaptered into law in 2018. Since being enacted, POST has begun developing the course content to be included as per the chaptered legislation.

Bill # and Author	Title and Summary	Status of Bill
AB 12 Assembly Member Irwin	Firearms: gun violence restraining orders Current law prohibits a person subject to a gun restraining order from having in the person’s custody or control, or owning, purchasing, possessing, or receiving, any firearms or ammunition while that order is in effect. Under current law, a gun violence restraining order and a renewal gun violence restraining order have a duration of one year, subject to earlier termination or renewal by the court. This bill would increase the duration of the gun violence restraining order and the renewal of the gun violence restraining order to 5 years, subject to earlier termination or renewal by the court.	Amended: 2/15/2019 Status: Re-referred to Committee on Public Safety 2/19/19.
AB 61 Assembly Member Ting	Gun violence restraining orders. Current law authorizes a court to issue an ex parte gun violence restraining order prohibiting the subject of the petition from having in his or her custody or control, owning, purchasing, possessing, or receiving, or attempting to purchase or receive, a firearm or ammunition when it is shown that there is a substantial likelihood that the subject of the petition poses a significant danger of harm to himself, herself, or another in the near future by having in his or her custody or control, owning, purchasing, possessing, or receiving a firearm, and that the order is necessary to prevent personal injury to himself, herself, or another, as specified. This bill would similarly authorize, an employer, a coworker, or an employee of a secondary or post secondary school that the person has attended in the last 6 months to file a petition for an ex parte, one-year, or renewed gun violence restraining order.	Introduction Date: 12/3/2019 Status: In Committee: Set, first hearing. Failed passage. Reconsideration granted
AB 165 Assembly Member Gabriel	Peace officer training: gun violence restraining orders. Would require the Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training to develop and implement, on or before January 1, 2021, a course of training regarding gun violence restraining orders. The bill would require the course to be incorporated into the course or courses of basic training for law enforcement officers and dispatchers, on or before January 1, 2021, and would require the course or courses to include specified topics, including the process of filing a petition for gun violence restraining orders and situational training to assist officers in identifying when a gun violence restraining order is appropriate.	Amended: 3/11/2019 Status: from committee: do pass and re-refer to committee on Appropriations 2/26/19
AB 243 Assembly Member Kamlager-Dove	Implicit bias. Would declare the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation that would address implicit bias in law enforcement.	Introduced Date: 1/18/2019 Status: from printer.
AB 300 Assembly Member Chu	Hate crime and incident reporting. Would require a law enforcement agency’s informational, incident, and crime reports to include a check box indicating whether the underlying incident in the report is a hate crime or hate incident, as defined. The bill would require a law enforcement agency to complete for each hate crime or hate incident, a supplemental hate crime or hate incident report form that indicates the type of bias motivation and any other identifying information to assist in the prosecution of the hate crime or hate incident.	Introduced Date: 1/29/2019 Status: In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author. 3/12/19
AB 301 Assembly Member Chu	Hate crimes. Would express the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation that would implement all of the recommendations set forth in the California State Auditor’s May 2018 report entitled “Hate Crimes in California: Law Enforcement Has Not Adequately Identified, Reported, or Responded to Hate Crimes.”	Introduced Date: 1/29/2019 Status: from printer.
AB 332 Assembly Member Lackey	*Peace officers: training.* Would authorize a law enforcement agency that is sponsoring a peace officer trainee, or an entity that operates a peace officer training academy, to permit a peace officer trainee to have at least one, but not more than 3, opportunities to remediate the skills portion of the learning domains relating to vehicle operation and firearms proficiency. The bill would require a sponsoring law enforcement agency or an entity that operates a peace officer training academy to offer the same number of remedial opportunities to all peace officer trainees, as specified.	Introduced Date: 01/31/2019 Status: From printer. May be heard in committee March 1. 1/30/19
AB 339 Assembly Member Irwin	Gun violence restraining orders: law enforcement procedures. Current law authorizes an immediate family member to petition the court for an ex parte temporary gun violence restraining order. Existing law authorizes a court, after notice and hearing, to issue a gun violence restraining order for a period of one year which may be renewed, as specified. This bill would require each law enforcement agency to develop and adopt written policies and standards regarding the use of gun violence restraining orders.	Introduced Date: 01/31/2019 Status: From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) Re-referred to Com. on APPR. 3/12/19
AB 392 Assembly Member Weber	Peace officers: deadly force Would redefine the circumstances under which a homicide by a peace officer is deemed justifiable to include when the killing is in self-defense or the defense of another, consistent with the existing legal standard for self-defense, or when the killing is necessary to prevent the escape of a fleeing felon whose immediate apprehension is necessary to prevent death or serious injury. The bill would additionally bar the use of this defense if the peace officer acted in a criminally negligent manner that caused the death, including if the officer’s criminally negligent actions created the necessity for the use of deadly force.	Introduced Date: 2/6/19 Status: Referred to Committee on Public Safety
AB 524 Assembly Member Bigelow	Peace officers: deputy sheriffs. Under current law, in certain counties, a deputy sheriff, who is employed to perform duties exclusively or initially relating to custodial assignments with responsibilities for maintaining the operations of county custodial facilities, is a peace officer whose authority extends to any place in the state only while engaged in the performance of the duties of the officer’s employment and for the purpose of carrying out the primary function of employment relating to the officer’s custodial assignments, or when performing other law enforcement duties directed by the officer’s employing agency during a local state of emergency. This bill would include a deputy sheriff in the County of Mono or the County of San Mateo within that definition of peace officers.	Amended: 2/28/2019 Status: Re-referred to Com. on Public Safety. 3/4/2019
AB 680 Assembly Member Chu	Public safety dispatchers: mental health training Would require the Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training to adopt 2 mental health training courses for local public safety dispatchers that meet the minimum training requirements described above that apply to law enforcement officers. The bill would require the basic training course to consist of __ hours and the continuing training course to consist of __ hours.	Introduced: 2/15/2019 Status: Referred to Com. on Public Safety 2/28/2019
AB 757 Assembly Member Grayson	Local public safety dispatchers: training: human trafficking Would require the Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training, on or before January 1, 2021, to adopt training requirements for local public safety dispatchers that include 3 hours of training in recognizing the signs of human trafficking. The bill would require a person hired on or after January 1, 2021, to have received the training before beginning duty and would require a person employed as a local public safety dispatcher prior to January 1, 2021, to receive the training no later than January 1, 2022.	Introduced Date: 2/19/2019 Status: Referred to Coommittee on Public Safety 2/28/19
AB 837 Assembly Member Holden	Peace officers: training: hate crimes Would require each local law enforcement agency to require peace officers to attend periodic training in the investigation of hate crimes and would authorize each agency to make the training culturally relevant to the community served by that agency. The bill would require the Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training to develop guidelines and establish standards for that training.	Introduced date: 2/20/2019 Status: Referred to committee on Public Safety 3/4/2019
AB 1052 Assembly Member Chu	Peace officer training: hate crimes. Current law requires the Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training (POST) to develop and implement a course of instruction and training for specified peace officers on the topic of hate crimes. Existing law requires that training to be implemented into the basic course and requires, as specified, all state and local law enforcement agencies to provide the training to all peace officers they employ. This bill would require the basic course curriculum on the topic of hate crimes to include the viewing of a specified video course developed by POST.	Introduced date: 2/12/2019 Status: Referred to Committee on Public Safety 3/7/19
SB 230 Senator Caballero	Law enforcement: use of deadly force: training: policies. Would require each law enforcement agency to maintain a policy that provides guidelines on the use of force, utilizing deescalation techniques and other alternatives to force when feasible, specific guidelines for the application of deadly force, and factors for evaluating and reviewing all use of force incidents, among other things. The bill would require each agency to make their use of force policy accessible to the public. By imposing additional duties on local agencies, this bill would create a state-mandated local program.	Introduced date: 2/7/2019 Status: Referred to Committee on Public Safety 2/21/19
SB 338 Senator Hueso	Elder and dependent adult abuse: law enforcement policies Would authorize local law enforcement agencies to adopt a policy manual on elder and dependent adult abuse. The bill would require, if a local law enforcement agency adopts or revises a policy manual on elder and dependent adult abuse on or after July 1, 2020, that the policy include specified provisions, including those related to enforcement and training. The bill would additionally require a law enforcement agency that adopts or revises a policy on elder and dependent adult abuse on or after July 1, 2020, to post a copy of that policy on its Internet Web site.	Introduced date: 2/19/19 Status: Set for hearing 3/26/19.
SB 399 Senator Atkins	Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training. Current law establishes in the Department of Justice a Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training. Current law requires the Governor to appoint members to the commission 2 of whom are required to be members of the public who are not peace officers. This bill would require the President pro Tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the Assembly to each appoint a member of the commission who is not a peace officer.	Introduced date: 2/20/2019 Status: Referred to Committee on Public Safety

Bill # and Author

Title and Summary

Status of Bill

AB 12

Assembly Member Irwin

Firearms: gun violence restraining orders

Current law prohibits a person subject to a gun restraining order from having in the person’s custody or control, or owning, purchasing, possessing, or receiving, any firearms or ammunition while that order is in effect. Under current law, a gun violence restraining order and a renewal gun violence restraining order have a duration of one year, subject to earlier termination or renewal by the court. This bill would increase the duration of the gun violence restraining order and the renewal of the gun violence restraining order to 5 years, subject to earlier termination or renewal by the court.

Amended: 2/15/2019

Status: Re-referred to Committee on Public Safety 2/19/19.

AB 61

Assembly Member
Ting

Gun violence restraining orders.

Current law authorizes a court to issue an ex parte gun violence restraining order prohibiting the subject of the petition from having in his or her custody or control, owning, purchasing, possessing, or receiving, or attempting to purchase or receive, a firearm or ammunition when it is shown that there is a substantial likelihood that the subject of the petition poses a significant danger of harm to himself, herself, or another in the near future by having in his or her custody or control, owning, purchasing, possessing, or receiving a firearm, and that the order is necessary to prevent personal injury to himself, herself, or another, as specified. This bill would similarly authorize, an employer, a coworker, or an employee of a secondary or post secondary school that the person has attended in the last 6 months to file a petition for an ex parte, one-year, or renewed gun violence restraining order.

Introduction Date: 12/3/2019

Status: In Committee: Set, first hearing. Failed passage. Reconsideration granted

AB 165

Assembly Member Gabriel

Peace officer training: gun violence restraining orders.

Would require the Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training to develop and implement, on or before January 1, 2021, a course of training regarding gun violence restraining orders. The bill would require the course to be incorporated into the course or courses of basic training for law enforcement officers and dispatchers, on or before January 1, 2021, and would require the course or courses to include specified topics, including the process of filing a petition for gun violence restraining orders and situational training to assist officers in identifying when a gun violence restraining order is appropriate.

Amended: 3/11/2019

Status: from committee: do pass and re-refer to committee on Appropriations 2/26/19

AB 243

Assembly Member Kamlager-Dove

Implicit bias.

Would declare the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation that would address implicit bias in law enforcement.

Introduced Date: 1/18/2019

Status: from printer.

AB 300

Assembly Member Chu

Hate crime and incident reporting.

Would require a law enforcement agency’s informational, incident, and crime reports to include a check box indicating whether the underlying incident in the report is a hate crime or hate incident, as defined. The bill would require a law enforcement agency to complete for each hate crime or hate incident, a supplemental hate crime or hate incident report form that indicates the type of bias motivation and any other identifying information to assist in the prosecution of the hate crime or hate incident.

Introduced Date: 1/29/2019

Status: In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author. 3/12/19

AB 301

Assembly Member Chu

Hate crimes.

Would express the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation that would implement all of the recommendations set forth in the California State Auditor’s May 2018 report entitled “Hate Crimes in California: Law Enforcement Has Not Adequately Identified, Reported, or Responded to Hate Crimes.”

Introduced Date: 1/29/2019

Status: from printer.

AB 332

Assembly Member Lackey

Peace officers: training.

Would authorize a law enforcement agency that is sponsoring a peace officer trainee, or an entity that operates a peace officer training academy, to permit a peace officer trainee to have at least one, but not more than 3, opportunities to remediate the skills portion of the learning domains relating to vehicle operation and firearms proficiency. The bill would require a sponsoring law enforcement agency or an entity that operates a peace officer training academy to offer the same number of remedial opportunities to all peace officer trainees, as specified.

Introduced Date: 01/31/2019

Status: From printer. May be heard in committee March 1. 1/30/19

AB 339

Assembly Member Irwin

Gun violence restraining orders: law enforcement procedures.

Current law authorizes an immediate family member to petition the court for an ex parte temporary gun violence restraining order. Existing law authorizes a court, after notice and hearing, to issue a gun violence restraining order for a period of one year which may be renewed, as specified. This bill would require each law enforcement agency to develop and adopt written policies and standards regarding the use of gun violence restraining orders.

Introduced Date: 01/31/2019

Status: From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) Re-referred to Com. on APPR. 3/12/19

AB 392

Assembly Member Weber

Peace officers: deadly force

Would redefine the circumstances under which a homicide by a peace officer is deemed justifiable to include when the killing is in self-defense or the defense of another, consistent with the existing legal standard for self-defense, or when the killing is necessary to prevent the escape of a fleeing felon whose immediate apprehension is necessary to prevent death or serious injury. The bill would additionally bar the use of this defense if the peace officer acted in a criminally negligent manner that caused the death, including if the officer’s criminally negligent actions created the necessity for the use of deadly force.

Introduced Date: 2/6/19

Status: Referred to Committee on Public Safety

AB 524

Assembly Member Bigelow

Peace officers: deputy sheriffs.

Under current law, in certain counties, a deputy sheriff, who is employed to perform duties exclusively or initially relating to custodial assignments with responsibilities for maintaining the operations of county custodial facilities, is a peace officer whose authority extends to any place in the state only while engaged in the performance of the duties of the officer’s employment and for the purpose of carrying out the primary function of employment relating to the officer’s custodial assignments, or when performing other law enforcement duties directed by the officer’s employing agency during a local state of emergency. This bill would include a deputy sheriff in the County of Mono or the County of San Mateo within that definition of peace officers.

Amended: 2/28/2019

Status: Re-referred to Com. on Public Safety. 3/4/2019

AB 680

Assembly Member Chu

Public safety dispatchers: mental health training

Would require the Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training to adopt 2 mental health training courses for local public safety dispatchers that meet the minimum training requirements described above that apply to law enforcement officers. The bill would require the basic training course to consist of __ hours and the continuing training course to consist of __ hours.

Introduced: 2/15/2019

Status: Referred to Com. on Public Safety 2/28/2019

AB 757

Assembly Member Grayson

Local public safety dispatchers: training: human trafficking

Would require the Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training, on or before January 1, 2021, to adopt training requirements for local public safety dispatchers that include 3 hours of training in recognizing the signs of human trafficking. The bill would require a person hired on or after January 1, 2021, to have received the training before beginning duty and would require a person employed as a local public safety dispatcher prior to January 1, 2021, to receive the training no later than January 1, 2022.

Introduced Date: 2/19/2019

Status: Referred to Coommittee on Public Safety 2/28/19

AB 837

Assembly Member Holden

Peace officers: training: hate crimes

Would require each local law enforcement agency to require peace officers to attend periodic training in the investigation of hate crimes and would authorize each agency to make the training culturally relevant to the community served by that agency. The bill would require the Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training to develop guidelines and establish standards for that training.

Introduced date: 2/20/2019

Status: Referred to committee on Public Safety 3/4/2019

AB 1052

Assembly Member Chu

Peace officer training: hate crimes.

Current law requires the Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training (POST) to develop and implement a course of instruction and training for specified peace officers on the topic of hate crimes. Existing law requires that training to be implemented into the basic course and requires, as specified, all state and local law enforcement agencies to provide the training to all peace officers they employ. This bill would require the basic course curriculum on the topic of hate crimes to include the viewing of a specified video course developed by POST.

Introduced date: 2/12/2019

Status: Referred to Committee on Public Safety 3/7/19

SB 230

Senator Caballero

Law enforcement: use of deadly force: training: policies.

Would require each law enforcement agency to maintain a policy that provides guidelines on the use of force, utilizing deescalation techniques and other alternatives to force when feasible, specific guidelines for the application of deadly force, and factors for evaluating and reviewing all use of force incidents, among other things. The bill would require each agency to make their use of force policy accessible to the public. By imposing additional duties on local agencies, this bill would create a state-mandated local program.

Introduced date: 2/7/2019

Status: Referred to Committee on Public Safety 2/21/19

SB 338

Senator Hueso

Elder and dependent adult abuse: law enforcement policies

Would authorize local law enforcement agencies to adopt a policy manual on elder and dependent adult abuse. The bill would require, if a local law enforcement agency adopts or revises a policy manual on elder and dependent adult abuse on or after July 1, 2020, that the policy include specified provisions, including those related to enforcement and training. The bill would additionally require a law enforcement agency that adopts or revises a policy on elder and dependent adult abuse on or after July 1, 2020, to post a copy of that policy on its Internet Web site.

Introduced date: 2/19/19

Status: Set for hearing 3/26/19.

SB 399

Senator Atkins

Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training.

Current law establishes in the Department of Justice a Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training. Current law requires the Governor to appoint members to the commission 2 of whom are required to be members of the public who are not peace officers. This bill would require the President pro Tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the Assembly to each appoint a member of the commission who is not a peace officer.

Introduced date: 2/20/2019

Status: Referred to Committee on Public Safety

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