POST Monthly Report

June 2024

Keeping you up to date on POST projects

POST Organizational Wellness Update

The Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training (POST) is excited to announce an update to the POST Organizational Wellness Program. Since receiving funding from the Governor’s Office in July 2022, POST has worked diligently with UC San Diego Centers for Integrative Health to develop and conduct an organizational wellness program.

Designed to be inclusive of all law enforcement professionals, the POST Organizational Wellness Program’s objective is to improve the health and well-being of both sworn and professional staff. This program is adaptive, contemporary, and practical in mentoring law enforcement agencies to create, or enhance, their own organizational wellness program that is specific to the needs of their agency and staff.

Applications for the POST Organizational Wellness Program will be accepted on a continuous basis. All POST participating agencies are encouraged to apply; however, limited availability remains to participate in the program before the current funding expires on June 30, 2025. Reserve a spot for your agency and apply today via the POST Website.

Further information is located on the POST Website. Additional questions may be directed to Raymund Nanadiego, Law Enforcement Consultant with the Management Counseling and Projects Bureau, at (916) 227-4852.

The Basic Training Bureau Observes Pilot Presentation of Learning Domain 44 – Active Shooter

On May 29, 2024, members of the Basic Training Bureau (BTB) observed the Riverside County Sheriff’s Office present Learning Domain 44 - Active Shooter during the Regular Basic Course, as part of a pilot presentation. The training involved the delivery of the three Required Learning Activities in the proposed Training and Testing Specifications. The proposed Required Learning Activities require students to demonstrate movement as a solo peace officer, demonstrate movement as a multiple peace officer response, and participate in a simulated comprehensive response to an active shooter incident.

For questions regarding the proposed Basic Course Active Shooter training, please contact Brandon Kiely, Law Enforcement Consultant with the Basic Training Bureau, at (916) 809-3443.

Instructor Development Institute Master Instructor Certification Course, Class 14 Graduation

Congratulations to the IDI MICC Class 14! Pictured are the graduates of Class 14 and the course facilitators.

On June 14, 2024, nine students graduated from the POST Instructor Development Institute (IDI) Master Instructor Certification Course (MICC) in Orange County. Each graduate exercised the necessary due diligence required to earn this prestigious POST certification.

This class successfully completed all prior work levels from the program and the MICC requirements of designing, developing, and delivering a minimum of a 24-hour course that met a demonstrated law enforcement training need.

The nine graduates, and the courses they developed, are listed as follows:

Sergeant Mary Bailey, California Highway Patrol, Project: Leadership Development Course-Non-Supervisory
Supervising DA Investigator Liam Doyle, Riverside County District Attorney’s Office, Project: Covert Online Child Exploitation Investigations
Officer Antone Haley, San Francisco Police Department, Project: Sudden Violent Encounters
Deputy Ryan Malone, Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department, Project: Watch Commander Training
Sergeant Jennifer Pratt, Fountain Valley Police Department, Project: Critical Incident Aftermath Management
Dispatcher Elizabeth Rivas, California Highway Patrol, Project: Communication with Compassion
Sergeant Scott Sylvester, Alameda County Sheriff’s Office, Project: The First 20 Minutes - A Command, Tactical & TECC Response to Violent Events
Lieutenant Mark Valdivia, Redondo Beach Police Department, Project: Enhancing Organizational Wellness: A Comprehensive Development and Revitalization Program
Deputy Brandon Wicker, Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department, Project: Missing Person Investigation

Law enforcement agencies can use MICC graduates in the transfer of training or learning for technical skill acquisition, knowledge acquisition, and critical thinking and problem-solving.

Questions regarding this program may be directed to William Baldwin, Law Enforcement Consultant with the Training Program Services Bureau, at (916) 227-4263.

POST Presents the Supervisory Train-the-Trainer Course

The Supervisory Train-the-Trainer Course was held June 10-14, 2024 in Orange County. Twenty-two students were invited by POST from agencies in Northern and Southern California, including the California Highway Patrol. This course provides information, facilitation strategies, and certifies instructors to be able to present the 80-hour supervisory course. Additionally, this course consisted of instruction on Bloom's Taxonomy, an overview of Situational Leadership, and facilitation skills.

The students began the course by individually presenting a facilitated 10-minute discussion on assigned topics based on the material from the supervisor course. Student presentations were evaluated by two expert facilitators, who identified the strengths and areas for improvement of each individual presentation.

Upon completion of a block of instruction on facilitation skills, students co-facilitated 20 minutes of assigned material from the Supervisory Course. The expert facilitators provided immediate feedback and individualized critiques of the presentations. Students were required to facilitate a total of three times for the successful completion of this course. All 22 students successfully completed the course and are now certified to facilitate the POST Supervisory Course.

For questions regarding the Supervisory Train-the-Trainer Course, please contact Jim Katapodis, Law Enforcement Consultant with the Training Program Services Bureau, at (916) 204-5587.

Professional Conduct Central Bureau holds Regional Meetings in Visalia

graduates of Class 14 — Last month, POST staff presented updates on the decertification process at the Tulare County Sheriff's Office.

On June 18, 2024, the Professional Conduct Central Bureau (PCCB) held two regional meetings in Visalia for agencies within the PCCB District regarding serious misconduct investigations and the decertification process. The sessions, which were attended by over 50 peace officers representing 17 agencies, provided an opportunity for PCCB staff to present updates, answer questions from the field, and discuss practical information and POST’s role in the process. Thank you to the Tulare County Sheriff’s Office for hosting; POST hopes to hold similar meetings in other areas of the PCCB District in the future.

For questions regarding PCCB’s district regional meetings, please contact Brian South, Bureau Chief with the Professional Conduct Central Bureau, at (916) 227-0244.

Meet the New POST Employees

Tom Osborne

Assistant Executive Director

Field Services Division

Tom comes to us from the Governor’s Office of Emergency Services (Cal-OES) where he served as a Deputy Director overseeing its Homeland Security Division. Prior to Cal-OES, Tom was a Special Agent with the Federal Bureau of Investigation where he retired after serving 24 years. Tom is the Assistant Executive Director of our Field Services Division.

Chloe Northart

Office Technician (Typing)

Administrative Services Bureau

Chloe comes to us from the private sector doing reception and clerical work for a car dealership. Chloe is assigned as an Office Technician for the Administrative Services Bureau.

Marie Taylor

Staff Services Analyst

Professional Conduct Central Bureau

Marie comes to us from Ross Video Inc. where she served as a field service coordinator. Prior to Ross, Marie worked 17 years for Sears Home Services in various district capacity planning and analyzing roles. Marie is assigned as a Staff Services Analyst in the Professional Conduct Central Bureau.

Tiana Yen

Staff Services Analyst

Professional Conduct Los Angeles County Bureau

Tiana has spent most of her career in the private sector working mostly in television production for HGTV and Travel Channel. She most recently built a customer community of small and medium-sized businesses for a financial tech company.

Jamila Fields

Staff Services Manager I (Specialist)

Management Counseling and Projects Bureau

Jamila comes from the Board of State and Community Corrections where she served as the program analyst on the Prop 64 grant. Prior to that, Jamila worked for the California Highway Patrol (CHP) as a public safety dispatcher in Ventura, and later as a communications training instructor at the CHP Academy until promoting to the Sacramento Communications Center as a dispatch supervisor. Jamila is assigned as the Staff Services Manager (Specialist) in the Management Counseling and Projects Bureau.

Haiau Chu

Information Technology Technician

Strategic Communications and Research Bureau

Haiau Chu is a seasoned customer service representative with over two decades of expertise across various industries, including information technology, real estate, signage, and graphic design. Haiau is assigned as an Information Technology Technician in the Strategic Communications and Research Bureau.

Recently Approved Rulemaking Files

The following is a list of recently approved rulemaking files proposed by the Commission on POST. The Office of Administrative Law reviews these rulemaking files to ensure compliance with the Administrative Procedures Act.

View all Commission on POST Regulatory Actions.

Amend Professional Certificates for Public Safety Dispatchers and Records Supervisors
Commission Regulation 1011
Approved May 10, 2024
Effective July 1, 2024
OAL Notice of Approval and Approved Text (pdf)
Amend Definitions Related to Serious Misconduct
Commission Regulation 1205
Approved April 18, 2024
Effective April 18, 2024
OAL Notice of Approval and Approved Text (pdf)

Additional information regarding the Commission Regulation changes can be obtained by contacting the Regulations Analyst at (916) 227-4894.

Legislative Update

Status of Current Legislation

The following is a list of bills POST is monitoring during the 2024 Legislative Session. These bills could have an impact on POST operations or be of significant interest to law enforcement partners. It is not a complete list. (Updated 6/20/2024)

View a detailed report on legislative matters pertaining to law enforcement and POST.

Bill # and Author	Title and Summary	Status of Bill
AB 852 (Jones-Sawyer)	Peace officers Current law requires the Chancellor of the California Community Colleges, in consultation with specified entities, to develop a modern policing degree program and to prepare and submit a report to the Legislature by no later than June 1, 2023, outlining a plan to implement the program. Current law requires peace officers in this state to meet specified minimum standards, including age and education requirements. This bill would require a peace officer to attain a modern policing degree, as specified, or a bachelor’s or other advanced degree from an accredited college or university no later than January 1, 2029, or within 36 months of commencing their employment as a peace officer, as applicable.	Last Amend: 6/19/2024 Location: 6/19/2024-S. THIRD READING
AB 1725 (McCarty)	Law enforcement settlements and judgments: reporting. Would require municipalities, as defined, to annually post on their internet websites specified information relating to settlements and judgments of $50,000 or more resulting from allegations of improper police conduct, including, among other information, amounts paid, broken down by individual settlement and judgment, information on bonds used to finance use of force settlement and judgment payments, and settlements or judgments paid by insurance. The bill would also require municipalities to annually post additional information pertaining to settlements and judgments, as specified, irrespective of the amount paid. By increasing requirements for local governments, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program.	Last Amend: 6/5/2024 Location: 6/17/2024-S. APPR. SUSPENSE FILE
AB 1839 (Alanis)	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.	Introduced: 1/6/2024 Status: 5/16/2024-A. DEAD
AB 2020 (Bonta)	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.	Last Amend: 6/10/2024 Status: 6/18/2024-S. APPR.
AB 2042 (Jackson)	Police canines: standards and training Would require the Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training, on or before January 1, 2026, to develop guidelines, as specified, for the use of canines by law enforcement. The bill would authorize the commission to periodically update these guidelines. The bill would require law enforcement agencies with a canine unit, on or before July 1, 2027, to adopt a policy for the use of canines that, at a minimum, complies with the 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.	Last Amend: 6/10/2024 Status: 6/12/2024-S. PUB. S.
AB 2138 (Ramos)	Peace officers: tribal police pilot project Current law defines those persons who are peace officers in the state, grants certain authority to those individuals and their employing entities, and places certain requirements on those individuals and their employing entities. Current law also grants specified limited arrest authority to certain other persons, including federal criminal investigators and park rangers and peace officers from adjoining jurisdictions. 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 July 1, 2025, until July 1, 2028, establish a pilot program under the Department of Justice and the Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training granting peace officer authority to certain tribal police officers on Indian lands and elsewhere in the state under specified circumstances.	Last Amend: 6/13/2024 Status: 5/29/2024-S. PUB. S.
AB 2541 (Bains)	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.	Introduced: 2/13/2024 Status: 6/13/2024-A. ENROLLMENT
AB 2621 (Gabriel)	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.	Last Amend: 5/20/2024 Status: 6/17/2024-S. APPR. SUSPENSE FILE
AB 2710 (Lackey)	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.	Last Amend: 4/8/2024 Status: 5/16/2024-A. DEAD
AB 2923 (Jones-Sawyer)	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.	Last Amend: 4/17/2024 Status: 4/25/2024-A. DEAD
AB 3021 (Kalra)	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 an immediate 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 clearly 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.	Introduced: 5/9/2024 Status: 6/18/2024-S. APPR
AB 3038 (Essayli)	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.	Last Amend: 4/1/2024 Status: 4/25/2024-A. DEAD
AB 3241 (Pacheco)	Law enforcement: police canines Would require the Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training (POST), on or before January 1, 2026, to adopt uniform, minimum guidelines regarding the use of canines by law enforcement, including legal standards established by the bill, and, on or before July 1, 2026, 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, 2027, each law enforcement agency with a canine unit 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.	Introduced: 6/10/2024 Status: 6/12/2024-S. PUB. S.
SB 400 (Wahab)	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.	Last Amend: 1/25/2024 Status: 2/29/2024-Signed by the Governor
SB 1020 Senator Bradford	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.	Last Amend: 3/19/2024 Status: 6/18/2024-A. APPR.
SB 1026 (Smallwood-Cuevas)	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.	Last Amend: 3/11/2024 Status: 4/25/2024-S. DEAD
SB 1122 (Seyarto)	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.	Last Amend: 3/18/2024 Status: 6/13/2024-A. DESK
SB 1264 (Grove)	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.	Last Amend: 6/17/2024 Status: 6/3/2024-A. L. & E.
SB 1489 (McGuire)	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.	Last Amend: 3/20/2024 Status:6/4/2024-A. APPR.
SB 1518 (Committee on Public Safety)	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.	Last Amend: 4/16/2024 Status: 6/18/2024-A. APPR.

Bill # and Author

Title and Summary

Status of Bill

AB 852

(Jones-Sawyer)

Peace officers

Current law requires the Chancellor of the California Community Colleges, in consultation with specified entities, to develop a modern policing degree program and to prepare and submit a report to the Legislature by no later than June 1, 2023, outlining a plan to implement the program. Current law requires peace officers in this state to meet specified minimum standards, including age and education requirements. This bill would require a peace officer to attain a modern policing degree, as specified, or a bachelor’s or other advanced degree from an accredited college or university no later than January 1, 2029, or within 36 months of commencing their employment as a peace officer, as applicable.

Last Amend: 6/19/2024

Location: 6/19/2024-S. THIRD READING

AB 1725

(McCarty)

Law enforcement settlements and judgments: reporting.

Would require municipalities, as defined, to annually post on their internet websites specified information relating to settlements and judgments of $50,000 or more resulting from allegations of improper police conduct, including, among other information, amounts paid, broken down by individual settlement and judgment, information on bonds used to finance use of force settlement and judgment payments, and settlements or judgments paid by insurance. The bill would also require municipalities to annually post additional information pertaining to settlements and judgments, as specified, irrespective of the amount paid. By increasing requirements for local governments, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program.

Last Amend: 6/5/2024

Location: 6/17/2024-S. APPR. SUSPENSE FILE

AB 1839

(Alanis)

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.

Introduced: 1/6/2024

Status: 5/16/2024-A. DEAD

AB 2020

(Bonta)

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.

Last Amend: 6/10/2024

Status: 6/18/2024-S. APPR.

AB 2042

(Jackson)

Police canines: standards and training

Would require the Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training, on or before January 1, 2026, to develop guidelines, as specified, for the use of canines by law enforcement. The bill would authorize the commission to periodically update these guidelines. The bill would require law enforcement agencies with a canine unit, on or before July 1, 2027, to adopt a policy for the use of canines that, at a minimum, complies with the 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.

Last Amend: 6/10/2024

Status: 6/12/2024-S. PUB. S.

AB 2138

(Ramos)

Peace officers: tribal police pilot project

Current law defines those persons who are peace officers in the state, grants certain authority to those individuals and their employing entities, and places certain requirements on those individuals and their employing entities. Current law also grants specified limited arrest authority to certain other persons, including federal criminal investigators and park rangers and peace officers from adjoining jurisdictions. 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 July 1, 2025, until July 1, 2028, establish a pilot program under the Department of Justice and the Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training granting peace officer authority to certain tribal police officers on Indian lands and elsewhere in the state under specified circumstances.

Last Amend: 6/13/2024

Status: 5/29/2024-S. PUB. S.

AB 2541

(Bains)

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.

Introduced: 2/13/2024

Status: 6/13/2024-A. ENROLLMENT

AB 2621

(Gabriel)

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.

Last Amend: 5/20/2024

Status: 6/17/2024-S. APPR. SUSPENSE FILE

AB 2710

(Lackey)

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.

Last Amend: 4/8/2024

Status: 5/16/2024-A. DEAD

AB 2923

(Jones-Sawyer)

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.

Last Amend: 4/17/2024

Status: 4/25/2024-A. DEAD

AB 3021

(Kalra)

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 an immediate 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 clearly 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.

Introduced: 5/9/2024

Status: 6/18/2024-S. APPR

AB 3038

(Essayli)

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.

Last Amend: 4/1/2024

Status: 4/25/2024-A. DEAD

AB 3241

(Pacheco)

Law enforcement: police canines

Would require the Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training (POST), on or before January 1, 2026, to adopt uniform, minimum guidelines regarding the use of canines by law enforcement, including legal standards established by the bill, and, on or before July 1, 2026, 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, 2027, each law enforcement agency with a canine unit 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.

Introduced: 6/10/2024

Status: 6/12/2024-S. PUB. S.

SB 400

(Wahab)

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.

Last Amend: 1/25/2024

Status: 2/29/2024-Signed by the Governor

SB 1020

Senator Bradford

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.

Last Amend: 3/19/2024

Status: 6/18/2024-A. APPR.

SB 1026

(Smallwood-Cuevas)

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.

Last Amend: 3/11/2024

Status: 4/25/2024-S. DEAD

SB 1122

(Seyarto)

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.

Last Amend: 3/18/2024

Status: 6/13/2024-A. DESK

SB 1264

(Grove)

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.

Last Amend: 6/17/2024

Status: 6/3/2024-A. L. & E.

SB 1489

(McGuire)

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.

Last Amend: 3/20/2024

Status:6/4/2024-A. APPR.

SB 1518

(Committee on Public Safety)

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.

Last Amend: 4/16/2024

Status: 6/18/2024-A. APPR.

The POST Monthly Report is a monthly status report that informs POST Commissioners and the California law enforcement community of recent progress on POST projects and instructional programs under development, and other information of importance to our mission to continually enhance the professionalism of California law enforcement.

To subscribe to email alerts for POST Monthly Report, please subscribe here.