Courtesy of James R. Touchstone, Esq. CONSTITUTIONAL LAW Summary judgment properly denied on deputy’s defense of qualified immunity in excessive force case arising from fatal shooting of boy with toy …
By Shaun Rundle, Legislative & Region Affairs Representative. The last few years of criminal justice reform in California has appeared to favor offenders over victims. Serious criminals are being released …
Courtesy of James R. Touchstone, Esq. On September 15, 2017, a panel of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, in Woodward v. City of Tucson,[1] reversed the district court’s denial of …
Read More »Courtesy of James R. Touchstone, Esq. and Keith F. Collins, Esq. On September 14, 2017, the California Court of Appeal held, in a case entitled Diego v. City of Los Angeles,[1] …
Read More »September 22, 2017 Dear CPOA Voting Member: Back in April, a call for nominations was disseminated. Upon close of the submittal period, the Board Development Committee convened to discuss all …
Read More »Courtesy of James R. Touchstone, Esq., and Keith F. Collins, Esq. On August 31, 2017, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that a suit could proceed that alleged an Oregon …
Read More »The end of the 2017 legislative session went well into early Saturday morning as lawmaker burned away the midnight oil to meet their deadline to send bills to the Governor’s …
Read More »Courtesy of James R. Touchstone, Esq. and Brittany E. Roberto, Esq. On August 23, 2017, the Second District Court of Appeal, in Ramirez v. City of Gardena,[1] held that “promulgation” …
Read More »By Shaun Rundle, Legislative & Region Affairs Representative. As soon as legislators were sworn in last December for the 2017-18 legislative session, bills were presented on contentious public safety topics. …
Read More »Courtesy of James R. Touchstone, Esq. and Deborah P. Knefel, Esq. On August 31, 2017, the California Supreme Court, in ACLU of Southern Calif. v. Super Court of Los Angeles (County …
Read More »By Shaun Rundle, Legislative & Region Affairs Representative. For a nearly a year, legislators in Sacramento worked and amended their public safety bills in the hopes of a chance to …
Read More »Courtesy of James R. Touchstone, Esq. of Jones & Mayer On August 23, 2017, the Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, in Bracken v. Okura, 2017 U.S. App. LEXIS …
Read More »By Shaun Rundle, Legislative & Region Affairs Representative. One bill in the California Legislature that gained much media attention recently, was SB 10 by Senator Bob Hertzberg (D-Van Nuys). It …
Read More »Courtesy of James R. Touchstone, Esq. & Keith F. Collins, Esq. of Jones & Mayer On August 24, 2017, the California Supreme Court denied a writ petition[1] challenging the constitutionality …
Read More »With one month remaining before 2017 bills must be on the Governor’s desk, several legislative measures were heard this week in both Senate and Assembly Appropriations Committees. These high-cost bills …
Read More »By Shaun Rundle, Legislative & Region Affairs Representative. Last November, Proposition 57 was passed by the voters by nearly 64%. Dubbed the Public Safety and Rehabilitation Act of 2016, the …
Read More »By Shaun Rundle, Legislative & Region Affairs Representative. When the Legislature returns from summer recess on August 21st, one of the first bills they will hear will be AB 1090. …
Read More »By Shaun Rundle, Legislative & Region Affairs Representative. The Racial and Identify Profiling Act of 2015, or AB 953, was signed by Governor Brown two years ago. In addition to …
Read More »Courtesy of James R. Touchstone, Esq. of Jones & Mayer On May 16, 2017, the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, in United States v. Rosario, …
Read More »By Shaun Rundle, Legislative & Region Affairs Representative. Members of CPOA’s Law & Legislation Committee met via conference call with the CA DOJ regarding a bill that would create a …
Read More »COURTESY of James R. Touchstone, Esq. of Jones & Mayer On July 3, 2017, the California Supreme Court, in People v. Valencia, 2017 Cal. LEXIS 4893 (Cal. July 3, 2017), held …
Read More »Courtesy of Gregory P. Palmer of Jones & Mayer Yesterday’s client alert memorandum (Vol. 32, No. 19) erroneously suggested the new case of ALADS v. Superior Court only applied in …
Read More »Courtesy of Gregory P. Palmer of Jones & Mayer The Second District Court of Appeal in Los Angeles issued a 2-1 opinion on July 11, 2017 in the case of …
Read More »Courtesy of James R. Touchstone, Esq. and Keith F. Collins, Esq. of Jones & Mayer On July 6, 2017, the California Court of Appeal published the case of Ana v. …
Read More »By Shaun Rundle, Legislative & Region Affairs Representative. Two bills are making their way through the Legislature this year granting DOJ control over the CalGang database in California. One bill, …
Read More »Courtesy of James R. Touchstone, Esq. of Jones & Mayer On June 29, 2017, the federal District Court for the Southern District of California, in the case entitled Duncan v. Becerra, …
Read More »By Shaun Rundle, Legislative & Region Affairs Representative. 2017 has been no less of a Capitol attack on the law enforcement profession than previous years. In our lobbying attempts, CPOA …
Read More »Author – Sergeant Angela Voorhees, California State University Northridge Thirty years ago, the state of California drastically cut back its services in hospitals for individuals with severe mental illness. The …
Read More »By Shaun Rundle, Legislative & Region Affairs Representative. In the wake of the 2014 incident in Ferguson, Missouri the public and lawmaker interest in body worn camera use by local …
Read More »Courtesy of James R. Touchstone, Esq. and Keith F. Collins, Esq. of Jones & Mayer On June 26, 2017, the United States Supreme Court denied certiorari in the closely followed case …
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