POST Monthly Report

September 2022

Keeping you up to date on POST projects

New “Initial Response to Sexual Assault” Training Video Released

Designed for California peace officers who may be called upon to conduct an initial investigation of sexual assault cases, the Initial Response to Sexual Assault training video can enhance veteran officers’ response and investigation of sexual assault calls while increasing newer officers’ skill sets. Program segments include child sexual assault, victimology, interview preparations, scene management, and victim contact considerations. A special section emphasizing the peace officer’s role and abilities in enhancing victims’ long-term well-being is also offered. Commentary and facilitated discussions with current investigators and field experts are included to broaden the viewer’s understanding of the many aspects of these very serious investigations.

Available on the POST Learning Portal, and eligible for Continuing Professional Training credit, the training video offers two viewing modes and printable instructor and trainee documents for either group-facilitated or individual instruction.

Questions about this newest training video may be directed to Mike Barnes or Ron Crook, in the Learning Technology Resources Bureau, at (916) 227-4889.

Peace Officer Standards Accountability Division (POSAD) Presents Workshops

This month, the Peace Officer Standards Accountability Division (POSAD) began presenting workshops related to the implementation of Senate Bill (SB) 2 in the field. In addition to the workshops held at POST Headquarters in West Sacramento, POSAD visited the Central Valley and San Diego. Thank you to the Tulare County Sheriff’s Office, Visalia Police Department, Fresno County Sheriff’s Office, San Diego County Sheriff’s Office, and Monterey County Sheriff’s Office for being gracious hosts. Next month, the team will continue to present workshops throughout the state.

This fall, POSAD will be planning open workshops to provide additional information to those who cannot make it to a pre-scheduled workshop, have unanswered questions, or just want an update on the implementation of SB 2.

To register for an upcoming workshop, please visit Peace Officer Certification Training Series.

For questions about the workshops, please contact Michelle Weiler, Bureau Chief, in the Certification Bureau, at 916-227-4870.

Updated Dispatch Radio Technology Course on the Learning Portal

POST has released an updated version of How Do You Copy? Dispatch Radio Technology on the Learning Portal. The course offers four Continuing Professional Training credit hours and takes 2-4 hours to complete. The intended audience is public safety dispatchers, but the course is useful for anyone who wants to know more about radio technology issues and solutions. Learners will practice troubleshooting radio issues, improve communication skills for reporting technical problems, and increase their confidence in radio technology basics all in a fun and engaging way.

Questions about How Do You Copy? Dispatch Radio Technology may be directed to Catherine Bacon-Davis, Information Technology Specialist in the Learning Technology Resources Bureau, at (916) 227-4546.

POST Conducts a Basic Course Certification Review (BCCR) of the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department Law Enforcement Academy

The Basic Training Bureau recently conducted a Basic Course Certification Review (BCCR) of the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department Law Enforcement Academy.

The Basic Course Certification Review (BCCR) is an in-depth review of Basic Course presenters and the certification of their courses. The BCCR ensures the quality, integrity, and safety of entry-level peace officer training in California. POST ensures all certified Basic Course presenters are in compliance with Penal and Government Codes related to POST, Commission Regulations, Commission Procedures, and the Training and Testing Specifications.

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

Meet the New POST Employees

William “Toby” Darden

Chief Counsel I

Legal Affairs Bureau

Toby comes to us after 17 years with the California Department of Justice (DOJ), where he served as a Supervising Deputy Attorney General within the Attorney General’s Office. Prior to DOJ, Toby was Of Counsel at the law firm of Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP, and also served as a police officer, detective, and patrol sergeant in the Carpinteria Police Department. Toby is assigned as Chief Counsel in the Legal Affairs Bureau.

Israel Hernandez

Law Enforcement Consultant I

Beginning LEC Rotations

Israel comes to us from the California Alcoholic Beverage Control where he most recently served as the Supervising Agent of the Professional Standards Unit overseeing Background and Internal Affairs Investigations. Israel is also an Adjunct Professor at Sacramento City College where he teaches criminal justice courses. Israel is assigned as a Law Enforcement Consultant I and is currently conducting his training rotations through the POST bureaus.

Alan Chang

Staff Services Analyst

Intake and Disposition Bureau

Alan is originally from the east coast (New Jersey) and worked 24 years for the U.S. Army in the medical and intelligence fields. He loves cooking, eating spicy food, enjoys playing pickleball, and ping-pong whenever he gets the chance. Alan is new to state service and is assigned as a Staff Services Analyst in the Intake and Disposition Bureau.

Charlene Soliva

Staff Services Analyst

Intake and Disposition Bureau

Charlene comes to us from the Franchise Tax Board for almost 4 years as a Tax Program Assistant and graduated from California State University, Sacramento last year with a degree in Management Information Systems. She likes to spend time outdoors in nature, hiking with friends, family, and her dog. Charlene is assigned as a Staff Services Analyst in the Intake and Disposition Bureau.

Aneetra Gaston

Associate Governmental Program Analyst

Intake and Disposition Bureau

Aneetra comes to us from the Department of Managed Health Care (DMHC) where she served as a Staff Services Analyst in the Contact Center. Prior to DMHC, Aneetra worked for Franchise Tax Board as a Tax Technician in the Correspondence Unit. Aneetra is assigned as an Associate Governmental Program Analyst in the Intake and Disposition Bureau.

Brandon Kiely

Law Enforcement Consultant II

Beginning LEC Rotations

Brandon recently retired from the Stanislaus County Sheriff’s Office after 26 years of service. He started with POST on September 19th; he is assigned as a Law Enforcement Consultant II and is currently going through his LEC rotation.

Recently Approved Rulemaking Files

Effective October 1, 2022

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.

Amendments to Course Certification and Presentation Requirements
Commission Regulations 1052, 1055, 1059, and 1070
Approved June 20, 2022
Effective October 1, 2022
OAL Notice of Approval and Approved Text (pdf)
Amendments to the Campus Law Enforcement Course
Commission Regulation 1081
Approved June 23, 2022
Effective October 1, 2022
OAL Notice of Approval and Approved Text (pdf)
Amendments to Minimum Standards for Training for District Attorney Investigators
Commission Regulation 1005
Approved July 28, 2022
Effective October 1, 2022
OAL Notice of Approval and Approved Text (pdf)
Adoption of Commission Hearing on Peace Officer Certification
Commission Regulation 1212
Approved August 4, 2022
Effective October 1, 2022
OAL Notice of Approval and Approved Text (pdf)
Amendment to Conditions for Continuing Employment
Commission Regulation 1012
Approved August 10, 2022
Effective October 1, 2022
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) 227-2802.

Legislative Update

Status of Current Legislation

The following is a list of the legislation POST monitored during the 2021-22 legislative session. This is not a complete list of legislation that could affect law enforcement. The 2021-22 Legislative session has concluded. The next session will begin on December 5, 2022. (Updated 9/30/2022)

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

Table containing status of current legislation
Bill # and Author	Title and Summary	Status of Bill
AB 655 Assembly Member Kalra	California Law Enforcement Accountability Reform Act Current law requires that a candidate for a peace officer position be of good moral character, as determined by a thorough background investigation. This bill would require that background investigation to include an inquiry into whether a candidate for specified peace officer positions has engaged in membership in a hate group, participation in any hate group activity, or advocacy of public expressions of hate, as specified, and as those terms are defined. The bill would provide that certain findings would disqualify a person from employment.	Amended: 8/18/2022 Status: 9/30/2022-Approved by the Governor. Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 854, Statutes of 2022.
AB 1639 Assembly Member Voepel	Firearms Would require a police officer of the San Diego Unified Port District Harbor Police or a port warden or a port police officer of the Harbor Department of the City of Los Angeles to complete the live-fire training qualification at least twice a year instead of at least once every 6 months in order to be exempt from the prohibitions on unsafe handguns.	Amended: 2/22/2022 Status: 5/6/2022-Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(6). (Last location was A. PUB. S. on 1/20/2022)
AB 1836 Assembly Member Maienschein	Peace officers: mental health Would, upon appropriation of funds, establish the Officer Wellness and Mental Health Grant Program within the Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training for the purpose of improving officer wellness and expanding mental health resources and suicide prevention. The bill would require the commission to award grants to eligible local law enforcement agencies and local peace officer associations. The bill would require program funds to be used for one or more specified purposes, including the establishment of officer wellness and peer support units and the hiring and retention of licensed mental health professionals.	Introduced: 4/28/2022 Status: 8/12/2022-Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(15). (Last location was APPR. SUSPENSE FILE on 8/2/2022)
AB 1947 Assembly Member Ting	Hate crimes: law enforcement policies Current law requires any local law enforcement agency that adopts or updates a hate crime policy to include specified information in that policy, including information on bias motivation. Current law requires the Department of Justice to collect specified information relative to hate crimes and to post that information on its internet website. This bill would require each local law enforcement agency to adopt a hate crimes policy. The bill would require those policies to, among other things, include instructions on considering the relevance of specific dates and phrases when recognizing whether an incident is a hate crime, to include a supplemental suspected hate crime form. The bill would require every state and local agency to use specified definitions for the term “protected characteristics.” The bill would require each law enforcement agency to report their hate crime policy to the Department of Justice, as specified. The bill would require the department to post information regarding the compliance and noncompliance of agencies that are required to provide information relative to hate crimes to the department.	Amended: 8/11/2022 Status: 8/31/2022-Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(18). (Last location was INACTIVE FILE on 8/17/2022)
AB 2062 Assembly Member Salas	Local law enforcement hiring grants Would, upon appropriation of funds for this purpose in the annual Budget Act and until January 1, 2029, require the Board of State and Community Corrections to establish a grant program to provide $50,000,000 in grants to local law enforcement agencies to incentivize peace officers to work in local law enforcement agencies that are in underserved communities and to live in the communities that they are serving. The bill would require grant funds to be used to provide a 5-year supplement to peace officer salaries in local law enforcement agencies that are in underserved communities that have had a homicide rate higher than the state average for the past 5 years or more and where the peace officer lives within 5 miles of the office in which they work. The bill would require local law enforcement agencies that receive grants to report specified information to the board annually and would require the board to report to the Legislature and the Governor’s office on the efficacy of the program, as prescribed, on or before July 1, 2028.	Introduced: 2/14/2022 Status: 5/20/2022-Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(8). (Last location was A. APPR. SUSPENSE FILE on 4/27/2022)
AB 2229 Assembly Member Rivas	Peace officers: minimum standards: bias evaluation Current law requires peace officers in this state to meet specified minimum standards, including, among other requirements, that peace officers be evaluated by a physician and surgeon or psychologist and found to be free from any physical, emotional, or mental condition that might adversely affect the exercise of the powers of a peace officer. This bill would require that evaluation to include bias against race or ethnicity, gender, nationality, religion, disability, or sexual orientation.	Amended: 8/4/2022 Status: 9/30/2022-Approved by the Governor. Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 959, Statutes of 2022.
AB 2429 Assembly Member Quirk	Commission on Peace Officers Standards and Training: assessment of training requirements. The Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training is required to adopt rules establishing minimum standards relating to physical, mental, and moral fitness governing the recruitment of specified peace officers. This bill would require the commission to perform specified duties, including, among other things, partnering with academic researchers to conduct an assessment of existing officer training requirements and determining how well the existing officer training requirements are working for officers in the field. The bill would require the commission to report its findings to the Legislature by January 1, 2025.	Introduced: 4/6//2022 Status: 8/12/2022-Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(15). (Last location was APPR. SUSPENSE FILE on 8/2/2022)
AB 2537 Assembly Member Gipson	Vehicles: driver education. Would require the Department of Justice, in conjunction with the Department of Motor Vehicles and the Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training, to develop and create a video demonstrating the proper conduct by a peace officer and an individual during a traffic stop and to post the video on its internet website.	Amended: 8/11/2022 Status: 9/15/2022-Approved by the Governor. Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 332, Statutes of 2022
AB 2547 Assembly Member Nazarian	Peace officers: determination of bias Current law requires each law enforcement agency to be responsible for completing investigations of allegations of serious misconduct of a peace officer. This bill would require the Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training (POST) to establish a definition of “biased conduct,” as specified, and would require law enforcement agencies to use that definition in any investigation into a bias-related complaint or an incident that involves possible indications of officer bias. The bill would also require POST to develop guidance for local law enforcement departments on performing effective Internet and social media screenings of officer applicants.	Amended: 6/16/2022 Status: 8/12/2022-Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(15). (Last location was APPR. SUSPENSE FILE on 8/2/2022)
AB 2557 Assembly Member Bonta	Peace officers: records Would make records and information obtained from records maintained by an agency or body established by a city, county, city and county, local government entity, state agency, or state department for the purpose of civilian oversight of peace officers subject to disclosure pursuant to the California Public Records Act. The bill would require those records to be redacted only as specified. By increasing duties on local entities, this bill would create a state-mandated local program.	Introduced: 2/17/2022 Status: 4/29/2022-Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(5).
AB 2583 Assembly Member Mullin	Peace officers: training Current law requires specified categories of law enforcement officers to meet training standards pursuant to courses of training certified by the Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training. Current law requires POST to require field training officers who are instructors for the field training program to have at least 8 hours of crisis intervention behavioral health training to better train new peace officers on how to effectively interact with persons with mental illness or intellectual disability. This bill would require the commission to revise that training to include instruction on how to effectively interact with persons with Alzheimer’s disease or dementia.	Introduced: 4/18/2022 Status: 5/20/2022-Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(8).
AB 2831 Assembly Member Jones-Sawyer	Sheriffs Current law sets forth the duties of a sheriff and requires a sheriff to command the aid of as many inhabitants of the sheriff’s county as they think necessary in the execution of their duties. This bill would make nonsubstantive changes to that provision.	Introduced: 2/18/2022 Status: 5/6/2022-Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(6)
SB 882 Senator Eggman	Advisory Council on Improving Interactions between People with Intellectual and Development Disabilities and Law Enforcement. Would, upon appropriation by the Legislature, create the Advisory Council on Improving Interactions between People with Intellectual and Development Disabilities and Law Enforcement, under the Department of Justice, to, among other things, evaluate existing training for peace officers specific to interactions between law enforcement and individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities. The bill would require the council to be composed of 9 members, appointed by the Governor, Senate Committee on Rules, and Speaker of the Assembly, including an individual with an intellectual or developmental disability and a representative from a law enforcement organization. The bill would require the council to meet quarterly beginning July 1, 2023, and would require the council to submit a report including recommendations to the Legislature for improving outcomes of interactions with both individuals who have an intellectual or developmental disability and mental health conditions, as specified. The bill would repeal these provisions as of July 1, 2026.	Introduced: 8/15/2022 Status: 9/30/2022-Approved by the Governor. Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 899, Statutes of 2022.
SB 960 Senator Skinner	Public employment: peace officers: citizenship Current law requires peace officers in this state to meet specified minimum standards, including, among other requirements, being at least 18 years of age, being of good moral character, as determined by a thorough background investigation, and being either a citizen of the United States or a permanent resident who is eligible for and has applied for citizenship, except as prescribed. This bill would provide that those standards shall be interpreted and applied consistent with federal law and regulations, as specified. The bill would remove the provision that requires peace officers to either be a citizen of the United States or be a permanent resident who is eligible for and has applied for citizenship, and would instead require peace officers be legally authorized to work in the United States, and make conforming changes.	Amended: 8/8/2022 Status: 9/29/2022-Approved by the Governor. Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 825, Statutes of 2022.
SB 1000 Senator Becker	Law enforcement agencies: radio communications. urrent law establishes the California Law Enforcement Telecommunications System (CLETS) to make specified criminal justice databases, including individual criminal histories, wanted and missing persons, and stolen firearms, vehicles, and property, available to participating law enforcement agencies. Current law prohibits unauthorized access to CLETS and the unlawful use of CLETS information by authorized users. Existing law authorizes the Attorney General to adopt policies, procedures, and practices related to the use of CLETS. These rules require a participating agency to restrict access to CLETS and define “access” as the ability to see or hear any information obtained from CLETS. This bill would require a law enforcement agency, including the California Highway Patrol, municipal police departments, county sheriff’s departments, specified local law enforcement agencies, and specified university and college police departments, to, by no later than January 1, 2024, ensure public access to the radio communications of that agency, as specified.	Amended: 5/19/2022 Status: 8/12/2022-Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(15). (Last location was APPR. SUSPENSE FILE on 8/3/2022)
SB 1464 Senator Pan	Law enforcement: public health orders Current law requires all sheriffs to execute all lawful orders of a department in their counties. Current law authorizes each sheriff to enforce all orders of the State Department of Public Health or of the local health officer issued for the purpose of preventing the spread of any contagious, infectious, or communicable disease. Current law authorizes each peace officer of every political subdivision of the county to enforce within the area subject to their jurisdiction all orders of the State Department of Public Health or of the local health officer issued for the purpose of preventing the spread of any contagious, infectious, or communicable disease. This bill would instead require those sheriffs and peace officers to enforce those orders. By expanding the duties of local law enforcement, this bill would create a state-mandated local program.	Amended: 4/18/2022 Status: 4/29/2022-Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(5).

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