BILL NUMBER: AB 86	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member McCarty

                        JANUARY 6, 2015

   An act relating to peace officers.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 86, as introduced, McCarty. Peace officers: independent review
panel.
   Existing law requires each department or agency in this state that
employs peace officers to establish a procedure to investigate
complaints by members of the public against the personnel of these
departments or agencies, as specified.
   This bill would declare the intent of the Legislature to enact
legislation that would establish, within the Department of Justice,
an independent review panel to investigate and provide an independent
review of peace officer involved shootings and other uses of force
resulting in death.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no.
State-mandated local program: no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  SECTION 1.  It is the intent of the Legislature to enact
legislation to establish, within the Department of Justice, an
independent review panel to investigate and provide an independent
review of peace officer involved shootings and other uses of force
resulting in death.