Bill Text: CA AB2340 | 2019-2020 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Peace officers: deputy sheriffs.
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-1)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2020-08-20 - In committee: Held under submission. [AB2340 Detail]
Download: California-2019-AB2340-Introduced.html
CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE—
2019–2020 REGULAR SESSION
Assembly Bill
No. 2340
Introduced by Assembly Member Bigelow (Principal coauthor: Senator Hill) (Coauthors: Assembly Members Berman and Mullin) (Coauthor: Senator McGuire) |
February 18, 2020 |
An act to amend Section 830.1 of the Penal Code, relating to peace officers.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
AB 2340, as introduced, Bigelow.
Peace officers: deputy sheriffs.
Existing law establishes categories of peace officers with varying powers and authority to make arrests and carry firearms. Under existing law, in certain counties, including the counties of Butte and Calaveras, 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 the officer’s employment and for the purpose of carrying out the primary function of employment relating to the officer’s custodial assignments, or when performing other law enforcement duties directed by the officer’s employing agency during a local state of emergency.
This bill would include a deputy sheriff employed by the
County of Del Norte, the County of Mono, or the County of San Mateo within that definition of peace officer.
Digest Key
Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: NO Local Program: NOBill Text
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)(1) As to any a public offense committed or for 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 If 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 that chief, director, or officer to give consent, if the place is within a city, or of the sheriff, or person authorized by him or her the sheriff to give consent, if the place is within a county.
(3) As to any a public offense committed or for 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 A deputy sheriff of the County of Los Angeles, and any a deputy sheriff of the Counties of Butte, Calaveras, Colusa, Del Norte, Glenn, Humboldt, Imperial, Inyo, Kern, Kings, Lake, Lassen, Mariposa, Mendocino, Mono, Plumas, Riverside, San Benito, San Diego, San Luis Obispo, San Mateo, 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 the officer’s respective employment and for the purpose of carrying out the primary function of employment relating to his or her the officer’s custodial assignments, or when performing other law enforcement duties directed by his or her the officer’s employing agency during a local state of emergency.