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 …
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 …
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 …
Read More »Courtesy of James R. Touchstone, Esq. of Jones & Mayer On June 21, 2017, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals issued an opinion in Brewster v. Beck holding that the 30-day …
Read More »By Shaun Rundle, Legislative & Region Affairs Representative. To meet their June 15th deadline, last week lawmakers passed a FY 2017-18 budget to send to Governor Jerry Brown. The $183B …
Read More »By Shaun Rundle, Legislative & Region Affairs Representative. The bill by Senate President Pro Tem Kevin de León to cut off communications between local law enforcement and federal immigration authorities …
Read More »CONSTITUTIONAL LAW A. United States Supreme Court strikes down Ninth Circuit’s “provocation rule” as undermining traditional Fourth Amendment reasonable force analysis. County of Los Angeles v. Mendez, 2017 U.S. LEXIS …
Read More »Courtesy of James R. Touchstone, Esq. and Denise L. Rocawich, Esq. of Jones & Mayer On June 6, 2017, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeal, sitting en banc, issued and …
Read More »By Shaun Rundle, Legislative & Region Affairs Representative. With 40 members of the State Senate, non-tax or urgency bills need a simple majority, or 21 votes to pass the Senate …
Read More »Courtesy of James R. Touchstone, Esq. of Jones & Mayer On May 31, 2017, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeal, sitting en banc, issued an opinion in United States v. …
Read More »Courtesy of James R. Touchstone, Esq. of Jones & Mayer On May 30, 2017, the United States Supreme Court issued its opinion in County of Los Angeles v. Mendez, 581 …
Read More »By Shaun Rundle, Legislative & Region Affairs Representative. Hundreds of bills faced a final test last week as legislation with fiscal impacts must have been heard in Appropriations Committee by …
Read More »By Shaun Rundle, Legislative & Region Affairs Representative. Last week the nonpartisan Legislative Analyst’s Office (LAO) released a report highlighting several areas of Governor Jerry Brown’s May Revise of the …
Read More »Courtesy of James R. Touchstone, Esq. of Jones & Mayer On May 12, 2017, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals held, in the case of S.B. v. County of San Diego, …
Read More »By Shaun Rundle, Legislative & Region Affairs Representative. In both the Senate and Assembly, Appropriations Committees hold a hearing where they vote on bills with high fiscal costs to the …
Read More »By Shaun Rundle, Legislative & Region Affairs Representative. April 28th served as the last day for policy committees at the Capitol, such as Public Safety or Transportation, to hear bills …
Read More »Courtesy of James R. Touchstone of Jones & Mayer CONSTITUTIONAL LAW A. California’s ten-year ban on possession of firearms after a conviction of misdemeanor domestic violence is constitutional. Fortson v. Los …
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