July 14, 2021
Qualified Immunity Bill Gets Amended, As Does Cop Minimum Age
By: Shaun Rundle, CPOA Deputy Director. Two of the bills that CPOA’s Law & Legislation Committee felt to be of the biggest-impact for 2021, are SB 2 (Bradford-D) and AB …
June 14, 2021
Few Public Safety Bills Remain Unchanged as Year Progresses
By: Shaun Rundle, CPOA Deputy Director. As a result of our lobbying work during the many legislative deadlines that occur in May and June in the Legislature, most public safety …
May 14, 2021
Sheriff Eligibility Bill Dies and High-Cost Bills Face Danger of Defeat
By: Shaun Rundle, CPOA Deputy Director. Several public safety legislative proposals have been referred to the “black hole,” i.e., the Appropriations Suspense File. This is a file of bills with …
Read More » April 19, 2021
Police Reform Bills Move Along with Strong Support
By: Shaun Rundle, Deputy Director. To little surprise, the 2021 legislation proposing the biggest changes to modern policing have been safely and swiftly moving through the Legislature. I have provided …
Read More » March 12, 2021
Here We Go Again: Decertification, ALPRs, and Records Release
By: Shaun Rundle, Deputy Director. Public safety bills have been begun hearings in Senate and Assembly policy committees, such as Public Safety, Judiciary and Transportation. Authors are presenting many of …
Read More » February 12, 2021
Legislation 2021: Just When We Thought They Ran Out of Ideas
By: Shaun Rundle, Deputy Director. Criminal justice reform since 2014 has been a ping pong game between the Legislature and voters at the ballot box. First Prop 47, then RIPA, …
Read More » January 13, 2021
2021 Legislative Year: Officer Qualifications, Records Release and More
By: Shaun Rundle, CPOA Deputy Director. Legislators feeling frustrated by a 2020 year impacted by the pandemic have reintroduced some of their failed measures from last year. They join newly …
Read More » October 12, 2020
Use of Force Policy and Investigation Reforms Are Coming in 2021
By Shaun Rundle, Deputy Director. Just as you’ve been updating your agency policies to adhere to the use of deadly force reforms under 2019’s AB 392 and SB 230, new …
Read More » September 14, 2020
The True Story We Told on Police Reform Defeats: “We Warned You”
By: Shaun Rundle, CPOA Deputy Director. When the Legislature adjourned for the 2020 session on August 31st, several news outlets and editorial boards across the state lamented the failure of …
Read More » August 12, 2020
Can You Use CN Tear Gas? Can ‘Media’ Access Your Command Post?
By: Shaun Rundle, CPOA Deputy Director. The Legislature is attempting to answer these questions and more with a series of legislation that while well intended, would cause more harm than …
Read More » July 13, 2020
Legislature Makes Last-Minute Changes to Carotid, UOF and More
By: Shaun Rundle, CPOA Deputy Director. Just prior to breaking for their summer recess, legislators in Sacramento hustled to amend dozens of pieces of legislation regarding crowd control and riot …
Read More » June 12, 2020
Headlines Force U.S. and California to Tackle Carotid Restraint and More
By: Shaun Rundle, CPOA Deputy Director. Although the terrible and unnecessary murder of George Floyd was committed without either the use of a carotid hold nor restraint, Governor Newsom was …
Read More » May 15, 2020
Legislature Focuses on Budget, COVID and 19-24year old Minors
By: Shaun Rundle, Deputy Director While COVID-19 has derailed much of the legislative activity in the deserted Capitol, the Legislature was forced to switch its focus to a newly created …
Read More » April 7, 2020
2020 (and some 2021) Laws Brought to You Online!
CPOA’s “Capitol to Communities: Legislative Impact” course is available online here. We partner with CHP and DOJ on bringing you the latest legislation and case law. The online course allows …
Read More » February 14, 2020
2020 Legislature: They’re Back at It!
By: Shaun Rundle, Deputy Director, CPOA. After an exhausting last few years putting up every defensive move in the playbook against a barrage of legislation propelled by anti-law enforcement rhetoric, …
Read More » June 6, 2019
Drastic AB 392 Amendments Means Focus Shift
By Shaun Rundle, Deputy Director. Prior to the May 31st deadline for bills to be heard in their house of origin, Asm. Shirley Weber’s AB 392 was dramatically altered. The …
Read More » May 1, 2019
Use of Force Bills Now Linked
By Shaun Rundle, Deputy Director. In the final week for bills with fiscal impacts to be heard in their house of origin, the Senate Public Safety Committee heard SB 230 …
Read More » April 15, 2019
Committee Passage of AB 392 Comes with Conditions
By Shaun Rundle, Deputy Director. Last Tuesday, AB 392 (Weber-D) passed out of the Assembly Public Safety Committee, which was the bill’s first hearing. In a nearly three-hour hearing, advocates …
Read More » April 1, 2019
AB 392 Set for Hearing with Amendments
By Shaun Rundle, Deputy Director. The controversial use of force legislation carried by Assembly members Shirley Weber (D-San Diego) and Kevin McCarty (D-Sacramento) has been set for a special-order hearing …
Read More » March 19, 2019
CPOA Working to Tell the ‘Real Story’ of Criminal Justice in CA
By Shaun Rundle, Deputy Director. A resounding theme from last week’s 27th Annual Law Enforcement Legislative Summit, an event CPOA puts on each year with support from our sister associations …
Read More » March 6, 2019
Law & Legislation Committee Analyses First Wave of 2019 Bills
By Shaun Rundle, Deputy Director. CPOA’s Law & Legislation Committee, which is comprised over thirty law enforcement personnel from across California, last month reviewed the first wave of public safety …
Read More » February 20, 2019
Legislature Hit with Two Use of Force Proposals
By Shaun Rundle, Deputy Director. Assemblywoman Shirley Weber has introduced AB 392, her 2019 version of a use of force legislation which looks and smells like AB 931 last year. …
Read More » January 15, 2019
Use of Force Legislation Negotiations Prove Nothing Has Changed
By Shaun Rundle, Deputy Director. We would like to think the Legislature learns its lessons when one of their priority bills fails. That just so happened with AB 931 (Weber-D) …
Read More » January 3, 2019
2019 Legislation: Mentally Ill & Homeless Among Expected Topics
By Shaun Rundle, Deputy Director. In preparation for the 2019-2020 Legislative session beginning on January 7th, legislators both returning and new gathered the Capitol in December for their swearing-in. At …
Read More » November 7, 2018
Public Safety Organizations Drafting UOF Legislation
By Shaun Rundle, Deputy Director. It is no secret that Assembly member Shirley Weber will be introducing a 2019 version of AB 931 on the topic of use of force. …
Read More » October 2, 2018
Governor Signs Policing Transparency Measures into Law
By Shaun Rundle, Deputy Director. Cementing the final criminal justice components of his legacy of his Governorship, which spreads over two separate eight-year reigns, Governor Jerry Brown signed various public …
Read More » September 24, 2018
CPOA Use of Force Town Hall Proved Issue is a Legislative Priority
By Shaun Rundle, Deputy Director. With a membership of over 32,000 peace officers of all ranks and agencies, CPOA has maintained our ability to get the right people at the …
Read More » September 4, 2018
Public Safety Handed Both Wins and Defeats as Legislature Wraps
By Shaun Rundle, Deputy Director. Last Friday the Legislature cast their final votes for the 2017-18 legislative session. Some of those votes were favorable to CPOA, but the majority were …
Read More » August 13, 2018
Key Public Safety Bills Face Critical Hearings This Week
By Shaun Rundle, Deputy Director. On Thursday of this week some of the biggest bills that CPOA has been lobbying in 2018 meet their fates in Senate and Assembly Appropriations …
Read More » July 31, 2018
Bill Seeks to Limit Liability for Felony Murder. What’s Next?
By Shaun Rundle, Deputy Director. Just when we think criminal justice reforms in California cannot get any worse, a bill exists to further limit people’s liability for criminal activity. CPOA …
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