Public Safety
Public Safety
AB 32 - Detention facilities: private, for-profit administration services
DRC Support - Request for Signature
AB 32 was recently amended to prohibit a for-profit privately owned and operated detention facility that is operated pursuant to a contract or agreement with a governmental entity.
AB 48 - Law enforcement: kinetic energy projectiles and chemical agents
DRC Support
California needs to be a leader and protect people by eliminating the use of rubber bullets, tear gas and other “non-lethal” force by law enforcement.
AB 118 - Emergency services: community response: grant program
DRC Support
The proposed 5-year pilot program seeks to fill the void currently existing in emergency response services for vulnerable populations so that young people of color, people with disabilities, people who are gender nonconforming, people who are likely to face disproportionate police contact, people who are formerly incarcerated, people with immigration status issues and people who are unhoused or homeless can safely access quality emergency services that are culturally appropriate and from trained professionals with relationships and a track record of service in their communities.
AB 189 - Child abuse or neglect: mandated reporters: autism service personnel
DRC Support
This bill would add qualified autism service providers, qualified autism service professionals, and qualified autism service paraprofessionals, as defined, to the list of individuals who are mandated reporters.
AB 241 - Implicit bias: continuing education: requirements
DRC Support - Request for Signature
This bill would require, by January 1, 2022, the continuing education curriculum for physicians, surgeons, nurses and physician assistants to include specified instructions on understanding of implicit bias in medical treatment.
AB 242 - Courts: attorneys: implicit bias: training
AB 243 - Implicit bias training: peace officers
DRC Support
These bills require implicit bias training to be completed by individuals in the health field, employees of the courts, and peace officers every two years.
AB 141, AB 242, AB 243 Position Letter (pdf)
AB 242 - Courts: attorneys: implicit bias: training
DRC Support - Request for Signature
This bill would authorize the Judicial Council to develop training on implicit bias for all court staff who interact with the public.
AB 259 - Vehicle registration: Voluntary Deaf or Hard of Hearing Notification Program
DRC Support
This bill would establish the Voluntary Deaf or Hard of Hearing Notification Program. The program would voluntarily allow a person to, at the time of registration of a vehicle, indicate the driver may be deaf or hard of hearing and further allow a peace officer to access this information.
AB 301 - Hate crime data collection and outreach
DRC Support
Hate crimes are on the rise. Although they represent a small percentage of crimes overall, we fail to adequately identify, report on, and respond to hate crimes. AB 301 addresses this problem by establishing a robust set of data, outreach and reporting materials to more effectively identify and reduce the incidence of hate crimes.
AB 392 - Peace officers: deadly force
DRC Support
Research shows that individuals with disabilities are at a severely increased risk of dying at the hands of police; it is estimated that individuals with disabilities comprise one-third to one-half of all fatal encounters with law enforcement. In 2017, officers killed 172 people in California, only half of whom had guns.
AB 477 - Emergency preparedness: vulnerable populations
DRC Support - Requests Your Signature
This bill would require that, upon the next update to its emergency plan, regarding the integration of access and functional needs into the plan, the local government entity include representatives from the access and functional need population, “including, but not limited to, social service agencies, nonprofit organizations, and transportation providers.”
AB 481 - Law enforcement agencies: military equipment: funding, acquisition, and use
DRC Support
Disability Rights California (DRC) is pleased to support AB 481, which seeks to regulate the use of military equipment by local law enforcement by requiring agencies to get approval from their local governing body prior to applying for and using such equipment, and to provide a public impact statement that outlines the intended use and cost of such equipment.
AB 490 - Law enforcement agency policies: arrests: positional asphyxia
DRC Support
AB 490 will create a uniform statewide policy on restraints that cause positional asphyxia to ensure that they can no longer be improperly applied on Californians.
AB 655 - California Law Enforcement Accountability Reform Act
DRC Support
The CLEAR Act will help eliminate hate groups in law enforcement and ensure that officers will provide proper public safety to all people in California, including people with disabilities.
AB 901 - Juveniles
DRC Support
This bill would make several important changes to existing law by ensuring that youth receive appropriate interventions and are not criminalized for truancy or problem behaviors.
AB 911 - Office of Emergency Services: emergency information system
DRC Support
Existing law establishes in state government, within the office of the Governor, the Office of Emergency Services. Existing law requires the office to be responsible for the state's emergency and disaster response services for natural, technological, or manmade disasters and emergencies, including responsibility for activities necessary to prevent, respond to, recover from, and mitigate the effects of emergencies and disasters to people and property.
AB 1112 - Motorized scooters: local regulation
DRC Concern
DRC applauds the author for bringing this bill that would authorize local authorities to regulate motorized scooter operators, collect fees for the costs of the regulation, collect trip data, and require operators to maintain liability insurance coverage. However, we have concerns with a number of provisions that do not adequately ensure that either local jurisdictions or scooter share operators, or both, are protecting the use of public sidewalks and other rights of way for persons with disabilities.
AB 1196 - Peace officers: use of force
DRC Support - Request for Signature
AB 1196 would prohibit a law enforcement agency from authorizing the use of a carotid restraint or a chokehold and techniques or transport methods that involve a substantial risk of positional asphyxia.
AB 1286 - Shared mobility devices: agreements
DRC Support - Request for Signature
This bill would require a shared mobility service provider, which includes providers of electronically motorized board, motorized scooter, electric bicycle, bicycle, motorized skateboard, or other personal transportation device, to enter into an agreement with, or obtain a permit from, the city or county with jurisdiction over the area of use.
AB 1321 - Juvenile facilities: use of chemical spray
DRC Support
AB 1321 takes an important step and would require the custodian of each juvenile facility to report quarterly to the Board of State and Community Corrections (Board) on the use of chemical agents in the facility.
AB 1421 - Supervised release: revocation
DRC Support
Persons with disabilities are disproportionately impacted by the criminal justice system. This includes the impact of assessed fees, fines and other assessments.
AB 1422 - Hate crimes: homeless status
DRC Support
This bill would add “homeless status,” as defined, to the list of hate crime categories.
AB 1422 - Hate crimes: homeless status
DRC Support
Existing law makes specified criminal acts punishable as a hate crime if it is committed in whole or in part because of one or more actual or perceived designated characteristics of the victim, including disability, gender, nationality, race or ethnicity, religion, or sexual orientation. This bill would add “homeless status,” as defined, to the list of hate crime categories.
AB 1506 - Police use of force
DRC Support - Request for Signature
This bill requires the California Attorney General to investigate incidents of an officer-involved shooting resulting in the death of an unarmed civilian. It also authorizes the state prosecutor to prepare a written report, and would require the state prosecutor to post any reports made on a public internet website.
AB 1764 - Forced or Involuntary Sterilization Compensation Program
DRC Support
This bill would establish the Forced Sterilization Compensation Program, for the purpose of providing victim compensation to any survivor of state sponsored sterilization conducted pursuant to eugenics laws that existed in the State of California between 1909 and 1979.
AB 1950 - Probation: length of terms
DRC Support - Request for Signature
AB 1950 would restrict the period of probation for a misdemeanor to no longer than one year, instead of the current maximum of three years except when any offense that includes specific probation lengths within its provisions.
AB 2213 - Office of Emergency Services: model guidelines
DRC Support - Request for Signature
Nonprofit organizations serve a critical function in disaster response and recovery efforts. The effective use of volunteers and donations augments the services nonprofits and government agencies provide during disasters.
AB 2372 - Coroners and medical examiners
DRC Opposes
AB 2372 would prohibit the disclosure of any report of death, autopsy report, investigation summary, toxicology report, coroner's register, file or other record, working paper, or note relating to a postmortem examination or autopsy of a decedent except for specified family members.
AB 2730 - Access and functional needs: local government: agreement for emergency management and transportation
DRC Support as Amended
AB 2730 requires a regional transit district, county transportation commission, or other local transportation authority that provides paratransit services to enter into an agreement with adjacent regional transit districts...
SB-2 Peace officers: certification: civil rights
DRC Support
The bill would establish reforms that would evaluate, disqualify and now decertify law enforcement officers in California.
SB 16 - Peace officers: release of records
DRC Support
SB 16 also includes provisions to ensure that officers with a history of misconduct can’t just quit their jobs, keep their records secret, and move on to another jurisdiction with their past actions not disclosed.
SB 36 - Pretrial release: risk assessment tools
DRC Removes Support
SB 36 would make the critical requirement that each county that uses a risk assessment tool for a pretrial release system maintain data for each individual that undergoes an assessment using the risk assessment tool.
SB 160 - Emergency services: cultural competence
DRC Support - Request for Signature
SB 160 requires counties to integrate cultural competence in their emergency plans when those plans are updated. Sadly, emergencies such as wildfires are becoming more a part of life but emergency response is hindered if responders cannot effectively communicate and interact with the people they are trying to help.
SB 164 - Infractions: community service
DRC Support
This bill would—when a person has been convicted of an infraction but has shown that payment of the total fine would pose a hardship, and the person has elected to perform community service in lieu of paying the total fine—permit the person to elect to perform that community service in either the county in which the infraction violation occurred, or in the county of the person’s residence.
SB 303 - Guardians and conservators
DRC Support - Request for Signature
This bill would prohibit the guardian or conservator from being compensated from the estate of the ward or conservatee with funds comprised of public benefits, including Social Security, Medicare, or Medi-Cal.
SB 336 - Transportation: fully-automated transit vehicles
DRC Support
This bill would require a transit operator to ensure each of its fully automated transit vehicles, while the vehicle is in service, is staffed by at least one of its employees, who has training in emergency response and preparedness, passenger safety and communication and assisting disabled and elderly riders.
SB 1276 - The Comprehensive Statewide Domestic Violence Program
DRC Support - Request for Signature
Current state funding requirements for domestic violence shelter providers require 10 percent matching funds, using either cash or in-kind matching funds. The state law requirement is in addition to matching fund requirements from federal funding sources.