BILL ANALYSIS
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THIRD READING
Bill No: SB 1190
Author: Cedillo (D)
Amended: 3/22/10
Vote: 21
SENATE PUBLIC SAFETY COMMITTEE : 7-0, 4/6/10
AYES: Leno, Cogdill, Cedillo, Hancock, Huff, Steinberg,
Wright
SUBJECT : Animal control officers: baton training
SOURCE : California Animal Control Directors Association
DIGEST : This bill (1) provides that the baton training
course for animal control officers be the course approved
by the Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training
and not a course certified by the Department of Consumer
Affairs; and (2) permits the training institution to charge
a fee covering the cost of the training.
ANALYSIS : This bill removes the requirement that animal
control officers complete training certified by the
Department of Consumer Affairs in order to be permitted to
carry a club or baton and instead requires the officers to
complete training approved by the Commission on Peace
Officer Standards and Training in the carrying and use of
the club or baton in order to carry a club or baton.
This bill provides that, to be authorized to carry a baton,
animal control officers, as specified, must satisfactorily
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complete a course of training approved by the Commission on
Peace Officer Standards and Training in the carrying and
use of the club or baton and that the training institution
will be authorized to charge a fee covering the cost of the
training.
FISCAL EFFECT : Appropriation: No Fiscal Com.: No
Local: No
SUPPORT : (Verified 4/7/10)
Bell Gardens Police Department
California Peace Officers' Association
California Police Chiefs Association
City of Santa Ana
City of South Gate Police Department
Laborers' International Union of North America, Locals 777
and 792
ARGUMENTS IN SUPPORT : According to the author's office,
"The existing procedures that the DCA has for obtaining a
DCA Baton Permit are intended for security officers.
Requiring animal control officers to complete a baton
training course certified by the DCA is inefficient,
inconvenient and costly to animal control officers and in
some cases to the cities or counties where animal control
officers are employed who appropriate the funds for
training.
"In order to avoid the confusion and carry a valid baton
permit, some animal control officers have resorted to
calling their baton a "bite stick" and instead taking a
POST certified baton training course to avoid the entire
confusion of going to a DCA certified training facility,
not being able to carry a valid baton permit, and being
sent to obtain a guard card.
"Because animal control officers are many times employed by
the cities or counties, and because they are empowered
under Penal Code 830.9, and are already required to
complete an 832 POST certified training course, it seems to
make more sense to require animal control officers to get
POST certified Baton Training if they are given the
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authority to carry a baton.
"Since some animal control officers already revert to
completing a POST certified baton training course instead
of going to the DCA and being confronted with the confusion
that exists in between animal control officers and the
Department of Consumer Affairs, this bill would seek to put
in code something that is already in practice."
RJG:do 4/7/10 Senate Floor Analyses
SUPPORT/OPPOSITION: SEE ABOVE
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