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) …
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 …
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 »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 »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 »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 »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 »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 …
Read More »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 …
Read More »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 …
Read More »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 …
Read More »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 …
Read More »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 …
Read More »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 …
Read More »By Shaun Rundle, Deputy Director. Last week members of CPOA’s board of directors joined staff and some law enforcement association colleagues in a meeting with the ACLU and staff of …
Read More »By Shaun Rundle, Deputy Director Various law enforcement organizations have joined CPOA in the support coalition for the “Reducing Crime and Keeping California Safe Act of 2018.” The initiative has …
Read More »By Shaun Rundle, Deputy Director Two years ago, former Senator Mark Leno (D-San Francisco) authored SB 1286, a measure that would publicly release officer personnel records relating to specified incidents, …
Read More »By Shaun Rundle, Deputy Director. Like our law enforcement partner associations and agencies, CPOA was blindsided with the proposed changes to AB 931, which would elevate the “reasonable” standard for …
Read More »By Shaun Rundle, Deputy Director. Heard in Senate Public Safety this week was SB 1186 (Hill-D), a bill that would place mandates on local agencies get governing body approval in …
Read More »By Shaun Rundle, Deputy Director. Last week the CA Department of Justice released a bulletin to all of law enforcement regarding expected compliance with SB 54, the media-dubbed “sanctuary state” …
Read More »By Shaun Rundle, Deputy Director. By February 16th all 2018 bills needed to be introduced in the Legislature. From the thousands that were put across the desk this year in …
Read More »By Shaun Rundle, Deputy Director. When Prop 64 legalized recreational adult use of marijuana in California it created a host of public safety consequences not fully addressed. Since its passage …
Read More »By Shaun Rundle, Deputy Director. Leading into November’s General Election, several public safety ballot measures have received title and summary from the CA Attorney General. This first step clears the …
Read More »By Shaun Rundle, Deputy Director. Members of the Assembly and Senate return to work this week after a three-month recess that began in September. A review of public safety bills …
Read More »By Shaun Rundle, Legislative & Region Affairs Representative. At its annual COPSWEST meeting, CPOA’s Board of Directors reviewed and approved the association’s 2018 Legislative Platform & Priorities. Each Fall, the …
Read More »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 …
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 »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 »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 »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 …
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