BILL NUMBER: AB 1872 AMENDED
BILL TEXT
AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY APRIL 4, 2016
AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY MARCH 28, 2016
AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY MARCH 8, 2016
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. Public safety.
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.
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.
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 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.
SEC. 3. (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.
(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.
SEC. 4. 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.