POST Monthly Report

May 2024

Keeping you up to date on POST projects

Management Counseling and Projects Bureau Hosts K-9 Guidelines Update Workshop

On April 23-25, 2024, in Anaheim, CA, POST convened a group of subject matter experts (SMEs) to update the existing K-9 Guidelines and review pending legislation, Assembly Bill (AB) 3241 (Pacheco) and AB 2042 (Jackson). The diverse attendees of this workshop came from municipal, county, and state agencies across Northern and Southern California and included current sworn handlers and handler supervisors, private presenters and trainers, and an attorney.

POST guidelines provide recommendations to agencies on a variety of topics and are designed to enhance the professionalism of California law enforcement.

For questions regarding the K-9 Guidelines Workshop, please contact Raymund Nanadiego, Law Enforcement Consultant with the Management Counseling and Projects Bureau, at (916) 227-4852.

Basic Course Certification Review of Oakland Police Department’s Regular Basic Course

On April 29-May 3, 2024, the Basic Training Bureau (BTB) conducted a Basic Course Certification Review (BCCR) of the Oakland Police Department’s Regular Basic Course. The BCCR is an in-depth review of Basic Course presenters and the certification of their courses to promote the quality, integrity, and safety of entry-level peace officer training in California. POST ensures all certified Basic Course presenters comply with Penal and Government Codes related to POST, Commission Regulations, Commission Procedures, and the Training and Testing Specifications.

For questions regarding the BCCR process, please contact Bill Lewis, Staff Services Manager with the Basic Training Bureau, at (916) 227-4856.

POST Learning Portal Upgrades

POST is in the process of upgrading all Learning Portal courses to a new media service by June 30, 2024. We anticipate a smooth transition, but users may experience some technical trouble with video or audio streaming after June 26, 2024.

Here is what to expect during the upgrade process:

1. If you are enrolled in or want to register for courses, make time to complete them before Wednesday, June 26, 2024, to avoid disruption.

2. If you do not complete a course, you will be moved to a new section and you will have to start again.

Regular updates throughout this process will be sent via PASS and Learning Portal interest emails. For more information, please contact Learning Portal Support, or visit the Learning Portal Status Update web page to check the ongoing upgrade status.

Electronic Data Interchange Training Course for Basic Course Presenters

On May 1-2, 2024, BTB hosted the Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) Training Course for Basic Courses. The course is designed to address the use of the EDI and the documents that are submitted to certify and present a basic course.

Questions about the EDI Training for Basic Courses may be directed to Alicia Francies, Staff Services Manager with the Basic Training Bureau at (916) 227-3911.

BTB Hosts Scenario Committee Meeting

On May 8-10, 2024, BTB hosted a 16-hour Scenario Committee meeting. During the meeting, six SMEs updated scenario test materials for basic academies across the state.

For questions regarding the Scenario Committee, please contact Anita Finner, Staff Services Manager with the Basic Training Bureau, at (916) 227-3901.

BTB Hosts Academy Director/Coordinator Course in Orange

On May 21-24, 2024, BTB facilitated a 24-hour Director/Coordinator Course in Orange, CA, where 22 Academy Directors and Coordinators from across the state were in attendance.

This course is mandated for all newly appointed Academy Directors and Coordinators of Basic Courses and must be completed within one year of appointment. Course instruction includes Roles and Responsibilities; Commission Regulations and Procedures; Instructional Design; Instructional Planning, Quality, and Resources; Electronic Data Interchange; Testing and Remedial Training Requirements; Liabilities and Legal Issues; Legislative Mandates; Risk Management and Academy Safety Protocols; and the BCCR process.

For more information regarding the Director/Coordinator Course, please contact Brandon Kiely, Law Enforcement Consultant with the Basic Training Bureau, at (916) 227-6498.

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 5/9/2024)

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

Bill # and Author	Title and Summary	Status of Bill
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: 5/1/2024-In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to suspense file.
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: 4/9/2024 Status: 5/8/2024-In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to suspense file
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 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.	Last Amend: 3/21/2024 Status: 5/1/2024-In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to suspense file.
AB 2138 (Ramos)	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.	Last Amend: 4/18/2024 Status: 5/1/2024-In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to suspense file.
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: In Senate. 5/1/2024-Referred to Com. on PUB S.
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: 4/4/2024 Status: In Senate. 5/8/2024-Referred to Com. on PUB S.
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: 5/8/2024-In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to suspense file.
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-Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(5). (Last location was PUB. S. on 3/4/2024)
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 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.	Introduced: 2/16/2024 Status: 4/18/2024-Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
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-Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(5). (Last location was ED. on 3/11/2024)
AB 3241 (Pacheco)	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.	Introduced: 2/16/2024 Status: 5/1/2024-In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to suspense file.
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: 5/7/2024-Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
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-Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(5). (Last location was ED. on 2/14/2024)
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: In Assembly. 4/29/2024-Referred to Com. on PUB. S.
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: 4/29/2024 Status: In Senate Appropriations. 5/3/2024-Set for hearing May 13.
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: In Senate Appropriations. 5/3/2024-Set for hearing May 13.
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: 5/7/2024-Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar.

Bill # and Author

Title and Summary

Status of Bill

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: 5/1/2024-In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to suspense file.

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: 4/9/2024

Status: 5/8/2024-In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to suspense file

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 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.

Last Amend: 3/21/2024

Status: 5/1/2024-In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to suspense file.

AB 2138

(Ramos)

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.

Last Amend: 4/18/2024

Status: 5/1/2024-In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to suspense file.

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: In Senate. 5/1/2024-Referred to Com. on PUB S.

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: 4/4/2024

Status: In Senate. 5/8/2024-Referred to Com. on PUB S.

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: 5/8/2024-In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to suspense file.

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-Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(5). (Last location was PUB. S. on 3/4/2024)

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 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.

Introduced: 2/16/2024

Status: 4/18/2024-Read second time. Ordered to third reading.

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-Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(5). (Last location was ED. on 3/11/2024)

AB 3241

(Pacheco)

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.

Introduced: 2/16/2024

Status: 5/1/2024-In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to suspense file.

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: 5/7/2024-Read second time. Ordered to third reading.

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-Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(5). (Last location was ED. on 2/14/2024)

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: In Assembly. 4/29/2024-Referred to Com. on PUB. S.

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: 4/29/2024

Status: In Senate Appropriations. 5/3/2024-Set for hearing May 13.

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: In Senate Appropriations. 5/3/2024-Set for hearing May 13.

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: 5/7/2024-Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar.

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