SB 626, as amended, McGuire. Sonoma-Marin Area Rail Transit District: police force.
Existing law creates the Sonoma-Marin Area Rail Transit District, within the Counties of Sonoma and Marin, governed by a 12-member board of directors. Existing law requires the district to work with specified authorities to achieve a safe, efficient, and compatible system of passenger and freight rail service and authorizes the district to own, operate, manage, and maintain a passenger rail system within the territory of the district. Existing law requires the board to appoint a general manager for the district and authorizes the general manager to, among other things, appoint, supervise, suspend, or remove district officers, other than members of the board and officers appointed by the board.
This bill would authorize the board to establish the position of chief of police, subject to specified requirements. If the board determines that morebegin delete officers areend deletebegin insert
than one officer isend insert needed, the bill would authorize the board to contractbegin delete withend deletebegin insert for any additional law enforcement services from law enforcement agencies located withinend insert the County of Marin or the County ofbegin delete Sonoma, or both, for those law enforcement services. The bill would require the chief of police to comply with the standards for recruitment and training of peace officers established by the Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training. The bill would require the board to equip every contract officer with an on-body camera or similar video body camera technology while that officer is on active duty in the district.end deletebegin insert
Sonoma.end insert
Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no. State-mandated local program: no.
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
Section 105033 is added to the Public Utilities
2Code, to read:
begin delete(a)end deletebegin delete end deleteThe board is authorized to establish the position
4of chief of police. The chief of police shall be a duly sworn peace
5officer appointed by the board andbegin delete subject to Section 830.33 of begin insert who meets the current requirements of the
6the Penal Code.end delete
7Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training pursuant
8to end insertbegin insertTitle 4 (commencing with Section 13500) of Part 4 of
the Penal
9Code.end insert If the board determines that more than one officer is needed,
10the board may contract forbegin delete thoseend deletebegin insert any additionalend insert law enforcement
11servicesbegin delete with eitherend deletebegin insert from law enforcement agencies located withinend insert
12 the County of Marin or the County ofbegin delete Sonoma, or both.end deletebegin insert Sonoma.end insert
13(b) The chief of police shall comply with the standards for
14recruitment and training of peace officers established by the
15Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training pursuant to
16Title 4 (commencing with Section 13500) of Part 4 of the Penal
17Code.
18(c) The board shall equip every contract officer
with an on-body
19camera or similar video body camera technology while that officer
20is on active duty for the district.
O
98