Bill Text: CA SB1136 | 2019-2020 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Peace officers: recruitment of women.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-04-01 - From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. [SB1136 Detail]
Download: California-2019-SB1136-Amended.html
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April 01, 2020 |
CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE—
2019–2020 REGULAR SESSION
Senate Bill
No. 1136
| Introduced by Senator Lena Gonzalez |
February 19, 2020 |
An act to add Section 13516.3 to the Penal Code, relating to peace officers.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
SB 1136, as amended, Lena Gonzalez.
Peace officers: recruitment of women.
Existing law establishes the Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training within the Department of Justice to establish minimum standards relating to physical, mental, and moral fitness to govern the recruitment of peace officers. Existing law requires the commission to establish a certification program for peace officers, to be awarded on the basis of training, education, and experience.
This bill would require the commission to develop best practice recruiting recommendations and materials that include best practices for recruiting women peace officers. peace officers who are women, racial or ethnic minorities, and members of any other group currently underrepresented in law
enforcement. The bill would require the commission to create and make available a guidebook or other material on best practices for peace officer recruitment for recruiting community oriented officers and women peace officers. officers, peace officers who are women, racial or ethnic minorities, and members of any other group currently underrepresented in law enforcement. The bill would also require the commission to distribute a short bulletin via the internet to law enforcement agencies on the topic of best recruitment practices, including recruiting women peace officers.
peace officers who are women, racial or ethnic minorities, and members of any other group currently underrepresented in law enforcement. The bill would require the commission to report to the Legislature, no later than June 30, 2022, on the extent to which peace officer programs have implemented best practice recruitment recommendations, the perceived outcomes of those recruitment recommendations, and the number of women officers officers, officers belonging to a racial or ethnic minority, or officers belonging to any other self-identified minority group, in each department.
Digest Key
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The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION 1.
Section 13516.3 is added to the Penal Code, to read:13516.3.
(a) The commission shall develop best practice recruiting recommendations and materials that include best practices for recruiting(b) Upon completion of a set of best practices, the commission shall create and make available to distribute electronically, or provide by means of another form or method, a guidebook or other material on best practices for peace officer recruitment for recruiting community oriented officers and women peace officers.
officers, peace officers who are women, racial or ethnic minorities, and members of any other group currently underrepresented in law enforcement. This material shall be designed for, and made available to, peace officers responsible for recruitment at individual law enforcement agencies across California.
(c) In addition to the requirements in subdivision (b), the commission shall distribute, as necessary, a short bulletin via the internet to law enforcement agencies participating in the commission’s program on the topic of best recruitment practices, including, but not limited to, recruiting women peace officers.
peace officers who are women, racial or ethnic minorities, and members of any other group currently underrepresented in law enforcement. This bulletin is intended to summarize key findings and advertise the guidebook.
(d) The commission shall report to the Legislature, no later than June 30, 2022, on the extent to which peace officer programs have implemented best practice recruitment recommendations, the perceived outcomes of those recruitment recommendations, and the number of women officers officers, officers belonging to a racial or ethnic minority, or officers belonging to any other self-identified minority group, in each department.
(e) (1) The requirement for submitting a report imposed under subdivision (d) is inoperative on June 30, 2026, pursuant to Section 10231.5 of the Government Code.
(2) A report to be submitted pursuant to subdivision (d) shall be submitted in compliance with Section 9795 of the Government Code.
