Amended in Assembly March 28, 2016

Amended in Assembly March 8, 2016

California Legislature—2015–16 Regular Session

Assembly Bill No. 1872

Introduced by Assembly Member Gray

February 10, 2016

An act to amend Section 830.1 of the Penal Code, relating to public safety, and making an appropriation therefor.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL’S DIGEST

AB 1872, as amended, Gray. begin delete Peace officers: deputy sheriffs. end delete begin insert Public safety. end insert

Existing law establishes categories of peace officers with varying powers and authority to make arrests and carry firearms. Under existing law, in certain counties, a deputy sheriff, who is employed to perform duties exclusively or initially relating to custodial assignments with responsibilities for maintaining the operations of county custodial facilities, is a peace officer whose authority extends to any place in the state only while engaged in the performance of the duties of his or her employment and for the purpose of carrying out the primary function of employment relating to his or her custodial assignments, or when performing other law enforcement duties directed by his or her employing agency during a local state of emergency.

This bill would include deputy sheriffs in the County of Merced within that definition of peace officers, as specified.

Under existing law, the University of California is established, under the administration of the Regents of the University of California, as one of the segments of public postsecondary education in this state. The University of California provides instruction to students at campuses in Berkeley, Davis, Irvine, Los Angeles, Merced, Riverside, San Diego, San Francisco, Santa Barbara, and Santa Cruz.

This bill would appropriate $1,315,000 from the General Fund to the Regents of the University of California, for allocation to the University of California, Merced, for various public safety purposes.

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The bill would additionally appropriate $4,556,000 to the county in California, with a population of 100,000 or more, with the highest homicide rate per 100,000 residents, for specified public safety purposes. The bill would further appropriate $4,000,000 to the City of Selma for the construction of a new police department.

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Vote: ²⁄₃. Appropriation: yes. Fiscal committee: yes. State-mandated local program: no.

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:

SECTION 1.  

Section 830.1 of the Penal Code is amended to
read:

830.1.  

(a) Any sheriff, undersheriff, or deputy sheriff,
employed in that capacity, of a county, any chief of police of a
city or chief, director, or chief executive officer of a consolidated
municipal public safety agency that performs police functions, any
police officer, employed in that capacity and appointed by the
chief of police or chief, director, or chief executive of a public
safety agency, of a city, any chief of police, or police officer of a
district, including police officers of the San Diego Unified Port
District Harbor Police, authorized by statute to maintain a police
department, any marshal or deputy marshal of a superior court or
county, any port warden or port police officer of the Harbor
Department of the City of Los Angeles, or any inspector or
investigator employed in that capacity in the office of a district
attorney, is a peace officer. The authority of these peace officers
extends to any place in the state, as follows:

(1) As to any public offense committed or which there is
probable cause to believe has been committed within the political
subdivision that employs the peace officer or in which the peace
officer serves.

(2) Where the peace officer has the prior consent of the chief
of police or chief, director, or chief executive officer of a
consolidated municipal public safety agency, or person authorized
by him or her to give consent, if the place is within a city, or of
the sheriff, or person authorized by him or her to give consent, if
the place is within a county.

(3) As to any public offense committed or which there is
probable cause to believe has been committed in the peace officer’s
presence, and with respect to which there is immediate danger to
person or property, or of the escape of the perpetrator of the
offense.

(b) The Attorney General and special agents and investigators
of the Department of Justice are peace officers, and those assistant
chiefs, deputy chiefs, chiefs, deputy directors, and division directors
designated as peace officers by the Attorney General are peace
officers. The authority of these peace officers extends to any place
in the state where a public offense has been committed or where
there is probable cause to believe one has been committed.

(c) Any deputy sheriff of the County of Los Angeles, and any
deputy sheriff of the Counties of Butte, Calaveras, Colusa, Glenn,
Humboldt, Imperial, Inyo, Kern, Kings, Lake, Lassen, Mariposa,
Mendocino, Merced, Plumas, Riverside, San Benito, San Diego,
San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara, Santa Clara, Shasta, Siskiyou,
Solano, Sonoma, Stanislaus, Sutter, Tehama, Trinity, Tulare,
Tuolumne, and Yuba who is employed to perform duties
exclusively or initially relating to custodial assignments with
responsibilities for maintaining the operations of county custodial
facilities, including the custody, care, supervision, security,
movement, and transportation of inmates, is a peace officer whose
authority extends to any place in the state only while engaged in
the performance of the duties of his or her respective employment
and for the purpose of carrying out the primary function of
employment relating to his or her custodial assignments, or when
performing other law enforcement duties directed by his or her
employing agency during a local state of emergency.

SEC. 2.  

The sum of one million three hundred begin delete and end delete fifteen
thousand dollars ($1,315,000) is hereby appropriated from the
General Fund to the Regents of the University of California, for
allocation to the University of California, Merced, for all of the
following public safety purposes:

(a) Forty thousand dollars ($40,000) for two mobile traffic
message boards.

(b) Three thousand dollars ($3,000) for two fire area of refuge
consoles.

(c) Eighteen thousand dollars ($18,000) for fire extinguisher
training equipment.

(d) Twenty-four thousand dollars ($24,000) for three fixed
license plate recognition (LPR) camera systems.

(e) One hundred forty thousand dollars ($140,000) for 40
EvacuChairs.

(f) Fifty-two thousand dollars ($52,000) for 40 automated
external defibrillators with training equipment.

(g) Four hundred twenty thousand dollars ($420,000) for a
mobile incident management vehicle and equipment.

(h) One hundred fifty thousand dollars ($150,000) for a mobile
use of force options system.

(i) Thirty thousand dollars ($30,000) for six mobile computers
with service.

(j) Forty-two thousand dollars ($42,000) for six in-car video
systems.

(k) Ten thousand dollars ($10,000) for two vehicle-mounted
LPR camera systems.

(l) Fifteen thousand dollars ($15,000) for one Cellebrite system.

(m) Seventy-five thousand dollars ($75,000) for one crime scene
mapping system.

(n) Sixty thousand dollars ($60,000) for three portable wireless
camera systems.

(o) Thirty-six thousand dollars ($36,000) for 360 crowd control
barriers.

(p) Two hundred thousand dollars ($200,000) for safety
improvement to an energy dissipator on Fairfield Canal.

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(a) The sum of four million five hundred fifty-six
thousand dollars ($4,556,000) is hereby appropriated to the county
in California, with a population of 100,000 or more, with the
highest homicide rate per 100,000 residents as determined by the
California Department of Justice’s homicide statistics for 2014,
for public safety purposes including, but not limited to, the
development of a gang and violence information analysis unit, the
establishment of new initiatives and partnerships with
community-based organizations, and to provide counselors and
programs aimed at pregang and postgang behavior.

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(b) The county that receives the appropriation pursuant to
subdivision (a) shall collaborate and coordinate with area
jurisdictions and agencies with the goal of reducing criminal
activity in the county and adjacent areas. The county shall establish
a coordinating and advisory council to prioritize the use of the
funds. Membership shall include city officials, local law
enforcement, and community-based organizations.

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begin insert The sum of four million dollars ($4,000,000) is hereby
appropriated to the City of Selma for the construction of a new
police department facility. end insert