1. AB 34 (Cooley) - Medical cannabis.
This bill would amend sections of the Business and Professions Code and Vehicle Code, relating to medical cannabis. Among others, this bill would require the California Highway Patrol to establish protocols to determine if a driver is operating a vehicle under the influence of cannabis, and set best practices to assist law enforcement agencies.
2. AB 334 (Cooley) - Peace officers: training: profiling of motorcycle riders.
This bill would ensure that California POST addressed the profiling of motorcycle riders in the Regular Basic Course (RBC – Academy), and offered training on the profiling of motorcycle riders to law enforcement officers during annual in-service training. Currently, Penal Code Section 13519.4 already mandates training in the area of racial profiling, and abiding by the 14th Amendment of the United States Constitution, training exists on discrimination. This proposed bill provided redundant training. This bill would impose additional requirements and would impose a state-mandated local program which is currently unfunded in the proposal.
3. AB 829 (Nazarian) - Gangs: shared gang databases.
This bill would require law enforcement to make notification and allow a parent to contest the adding of a juvenile/adult to a shared gang database. This bill would impose additional requirements and would impose a state-mandated local program which is currently unfunded in the proposal.
4. AB 1227 (Cooper) - Peace officer training: mental health training.
This bill would require POST, in collaboration with relevant stakeholders, to study and submit a report to the Legislature, on or before December 31, 2017. The report would assess the status of the mental illness/developmental illness training courses outlined in Penal Code sections 13515.30 and 13519.2 assessing whether the courses cover all appropriate topics and identifies areas where additional training is needed.
5. SB 823 (Block) - Criminal procedure: human trafficking.
This bill that would amend Penal Code Section 1203.49 to create a presumption that if a defendant were committing ANY offense while he/she were a victim of human trafficking, the defendant is entitled to a presumption the requirements of relief have been met (among other considerations); the guilty verdict will be set aside.
6. SB 752 (Nielsen) - Crimes.
This bill that would amend Penal Code sections 146e, 148, and 244.5, to make convictions against defendants for malicious obstruction punishable by imprisonment in a county jail not to exceed one year, however removing an officer’s firearm is a felony punishable by imprisonment in a state prison.
7. SB 821 (Block) - Crimes: criminal threats.
This bill would amend Penal Code Section 422, to include threats to commit a crime against another person or location or event. The conviction would be punishable by one year in a county jail.
8. AB 2626 (Jones-Sawyer) – Peace Officers: training: Principled Policing
This bill would create Penal Code Section 13519.45, requiring the commission to develop and disseminate guidelines and training for peace officers on principled policing, which would include procedural justice and implicit bias. This bill would require the commission deploy the training over semiannually commencing in June 2017.
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