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California lawmakers approve bills to track racial profiling, police use of force

Posted on September 10, 2015

California lawmakers on Wednesday approved measures intended to shine a light on racial profiling and the use of force by police officers, a response to recent deadly, racially charged incidents in Baltimore and Ferguson, Mo.

One proposal would require police officers to collect data on the people they stop, including perceived race and ethnicity.

“The time has come to have a clear conversation with law enforcement about what we as a society will no longer accept — and that’s racial profiling by those who indeed take an oath to protect and serve all of us fairly and equally,” said state Sen. Holly J. Mitchell (D-Los Angeles), who presented the bill in the Senate. Read More

Legislature Returns From Summer Recess

Posted on September 1, 2015

Aaron Read and Randy Perry Legislative Advocates Aaron Read & Associates, LLC   On Monday, August 17, legislators returned from the summer recess and after a month off, they are […] Read More

Death of San Francisco woman leads to bill on deporting felons

Posted on August 28, 2015

Republican state lawmakers on Thursday introduced legislation to restrict local law enforcement agencies from seeking custody of accused criminals scheduled for deportation, a response to the death of San Francisco woman allegedly killed by Mexican national who had been deported five times.
The measure, by Sen. Bob Huff (R- Diamond Bar) and Sen. Shannon Runner (R-Antelope Valley), would require a local enforcement agency to have an outstanding felony warrant for an individual before it could seek custody from federal immigration officials. The local agency also would be required to confirm that either the district attorney or attorney general planned to prosecute. Read More

Reed’s state pension reform measure would be financial disaster

Posted on August 28, 2015

Backers of an effort to slash the retirement of public servants got a stiff dose of reality this month when leaders of the state’s top public investment funds raised red flags about the plan that could be headed for the 2016 ballot.
They said the latest proposal on public pensions from former San Diego Councilman Carl DeMaio and former San Jose Mayor Chuck Reed would undermine decades of labor law and collective bargaining precedent and threaten retirement security for tens of thousands of working families. Read More

Bill gives domestic violence victims control of cellphone

Posted on August 27, 2015

Speaker Toni Atkins, joining a San Diego protest in July of a meeting of the conservative American
Victims of domestic violence could have their wireless telephone service providers transfer their accounts from their abusers under a bill sent to the governor.

Assembly Bill 1407 by Assembly Speaker Toni Atkins, D-San Diego, would authorize family-law courts to issue orders requiring wireless telephone service providers to transfer the billing responsibility and telephone number to the victim. Read More

AM Alert: Hundreds of bills face life-or-death decisions

Posted on August 27, 2015

The Senate and Assembly appropriations committees will act on hundreds of bills Thursday, deciding whether or not to move costly measures to the house floors by a legislative deadline.

The bills have already passed their house of origin and have been sitting in the committees’ suspense files because they would cost the state a significant amount of money to implement. The hearings will be held after each house’s floor session. Read More

Officer Review of Body-Camera Footage Debated in the Assembly

Posted on June 1, 2015

April and May are typically two of the busiest months of the year for the California Legislature. Every bill must go through a policy committee (Public Safety, Judiciary or Health Committee, for example) before being heard in Appropriations Committee (if the bill has a price tag), and is then debated on the floor of its respective house. Read More

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We Need Your Help – Tell the Community College Board to Support Peace Officers on Campus

March 18, 2022

WE NEED YOUR HELP – SUPPORT COMMUNITY COLLEGE PEACE OFFICERS  

By clicking HERE and pressing send on the pre-written email, you can voice your opposition to a dangerous proposal by the Community College Board that would risk both officer and… Read More

PORAC Responds to President Biden’s State of the Union Address

March 02, 2022

Today, President Joe Biden delivered his first State of the Union address during which he highlighted his strategy to make our communities safer and reduce gun crime. The President urged Congress to act on his $350 million budget request to more… Read More

Leading Law Enforcement Organizations Endorse Sacramento District Attorney Anne Marie Schubert for California Attorney General

March 01, 2022

Sacramento, CA — Today, the Peace Officers Research Association of California (PORAC) and the California Association of Highway Patrolmen (CAHP) announced their endorsement of Sacramento District Attorney Anne Marie Schubert for Attorney General… Read More

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