Bill Text: CA SB981 | 2023-2024 | Regular Session | Introduced
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Bill Title: Sexually explicit digital images.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Engrossed) 2024-06-03 - Referred to Com. on P. & C.P. [SB981 Detail]
Download: California-2023-SB981-Introduced.html
Bill Title: Sexually explicit digital images.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Engrossed) 2024-06-03 - Referred to Com. on P. & C.P. [SB981 Detail]
Download: California-2023-SB981-Introduced.html
CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE—
2023–2024 REGULAR SESSION
Senate Bill
No. 981
| Introduced by Senator Wahab |
January 29, 2024 |
An act relating to law enforcement.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
SB 981, as introduced, Wahab.
Retail theft: arrest authority.
Existing law defines grand theft as theft committed in specified cases, including when the property taken is of a value exceeding $950, punishable as a felony, subject to specified exceptions. Existing law, the Safe Neighborhoods and Schools Act, enacted as an initiative statute by Proposition 47, as approved by the electors at the November 4, 2014, statewide general election, requires the theft of money, labor, or property to be considered petty theft, punishable as a misdemeanor, whenever the value of the property taken does not exceed $950. Existing law authorizes a law enforcement officer to arrest a person if the officer has probable cause to believe that the person to be arrested has committed a public offense in the officer’s presence, the person arrested has committed a felony, although not in the officer’s presence, or the officer has probable cause to believe that the person to
be arrested has committed a felony, whether or not a felony, in fact, has been committed.
This bill would state the Legislature’s intent to enact legislation relating to the authority of a law enforcement officer to arrest a person suspected of retail theft if the officer did not observe the commission of the crime.
