Call to Action - Officer Safety Bills SB 101 & 296

Our Safety Matters. Your Action is Needed! 

CACEO Members are being asked to take action and contact members of the CA Senate Appropriations Committee ASAP and repeatedly to support SB 101 and SB 296. Let them know that our safety matters, and urge them to remove SB 101 and SB 296 from the suspense file. 

Click here to view CACEO's latest news release on this matter. 

Click here to view CACEO's officer safety information packet. 

Senate Bill 101 - the DMV Bill (Senator Jim Nielsen), Would close the loophole in existing law to prohibit disclosure of home address of code enforcement officers (note: parking enforcement officers are already covered by law). 

SB 101 will include all Code Enforcement Officers under the protections of California Vehicle Code Section 1808.4. It is an important, added layer of safety that will help assure that all Code Enforcement Officers will have their DMV information secured. It bears repeating that there is no difference between the dangers facing Code Enforcement Officers who are currently covered under the law and those Code Enforcement Officers who currently are not currently covered.

Senate Bill 296 - the Code Enforcement Officer Safety Standards Bill (Senator Monique Limón), would require cities and counties to establish safety protocols specific to code enforcement officers and specific to the risks posed in the particular jurisdiction. 

Currently, many jurisdictions do not have safety programs to train and protect code enforcement officers from threats, assaults, batteries or worse. Due to recent changes in State and local law, many code enforcement officers have been given the responsibility of dealing with community problems that were traditionally handled by sworn peace officers. These duties include, but are not limited to, the abatement of hard drug houses, illegal cannabis grow operations, red light district activity enforcement and abatement and other criminal behaviors. Sworn peace officers are well trained in officer safety and have many legal protections under State and local law. There are requirements already in place that require jurisdictions to establish specific safety protocols for sworn personnel however, none exist for code enforcement officers. This bill would change that.

We are asking that you contact members of the CA Senate Appropriations Committee immediately and repeatedly urging them to take SB 101 and 296 off of the suspense file. 

CLICK HERE TO VIEW CONTACT INFO FOR MEMBERS OF THE SENATE APPROPRIATIONS COMMITEE. 

CLICK HERE FOR SAMPLE SUPPORT VERBIAGE FOR SB 101 or click here to download the Word document with the support verbiage. 

CLICK HERE FOR SAMPLE SUPPORT VERBIAGE FOR SB 296 or click here to download the Word document with the support verbiage. 

For any specific questions about this legislation, please don't hesitate to contact CACEO's Legislation Chair Matthew Silver at msilver@caceo.us