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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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, …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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. …

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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) …

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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 …

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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. …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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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July 16, 2018

DOJ 2017 Crime Report Shows Why AB 931 is Dangerous

By Shaun Rundle, Deputy Director. Last week the CA Department of Justice released a series of reports, one which was 2017 crime statistics. The report detailed facts that the law …

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July 2, 2018

Public Safety Bills to Be Acted Upon After Summer Recess

By Shaun Rundle, Deputy Director. When this week wraps up the Legislature will take a month-long Summer Recess. Upon their return, several public safety bills will await their attention in …

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June 19, 2018

AB 931 Passes Its First Committee Hearing

The CPOA-opposed AB 931 (Weber-D), which also garners opposition from nearly every law enforcement organization in California, received a 5-2 vote in Senate Public Safety Committee on Tuesday. This party-line …

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June 5, 2018

Public Sentiment Lifts Bills of Concern Past Legislative Hurdles

By Shaun Rundle, Deputy Director. There were several bills that CPOA was hoping would be defeated in the Senate or Assembly Appropriations Committee’s Suspense File hearing last week. These high-cost …

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June 5, 2018

Surveillance Technology Bill Gets Amended; Yet CPOA Opposes

By Shaun Rundle, Deputy Director. SB 1186 by Senator Jerry Hill (D-San Mateo) is opposed by most law enforcement organizations and associations in California. Not only does the bill require …

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May 15, 2018

Several Bills Look to be Defeated on Suspense File

By Shaun Rundle, Deputy Director. I am working to defeat several bills that would impede public safety while they are placed on the Suspense File in Appropriations Committees of the …

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