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1 Riverside Public Safety CommitteePresentation to
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2 Legislative topics:
• Serious bodily injury
• Violence against police officers/officer safety
• Fentanyl
• General public safety
Felony murder
reform:
• SB 1437 (Skinner, 2018) allowed
lower sentences on accomplices to
murder.
• SB 775 (Becker, 2021) expanded to
included those convicted of
attempted murder or manslaughter.
• SB 1129 (Jones, 2022), attempted
to exclude cases involving murder
of a peace officer.
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3 Proposition 57:
• Prop 57 allowed for early release
of “non-violent” felons.
• Multiple attempts to exclude
serious felonies and sex offenders
from early release (AB 32, SB 14,
SB 268).
• Efforts this year to require CDCR
to disclose information about early
release credits (AB 15, AB 1260,
SB 359).
LWOP Reform:
• SB 300 (Cortese, 2022) – would have allowed a judge
to dismiss mandatory LWOP (life without parole) in
cases involving special circumstances that include
torture killings, rape and murder, and murder of a
peace officer, among others.
• SB 94 (Cortese, 2023) – would apply same reforms
attempted in SB 300 but only in cases that predate
1990.
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4 Compensating
criminals:
• SB 299 (Leyva, 2022) - would have allowed a person
subject to a lawful use of force to petition for
compensation out of the Victims Compensation
Fund.
• SB 838 (Menjivar, 2023) – is a reintroduction of the bill above. Does allow for denial of claim based on
suspects actions, but only if underlying offense is a
violent felony.
Gun
enhancements:
• SB 620 (Bradford, 2017) – made
gun enhancements discretionary.
• AB 1506 (Lee, 2021) – would have
eliminated gun enhancements.
• AB 328 (Essayli, 2023) – would
have made specific gun
enhancements mandatory again.
• AB 1310 (McKinnor) – would
apply SB 620 retroactively.
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5 Fentanyl
• SB 44 (Umberg, 2023) – would establish mandatory
judicial advisory for those convicted of selling
fentanyl.
• Multiple bills dealing with weight enhancements (AB
367, AB 701, SB 62), and other various penalty
increases (AB 955, SB 226).
• AB 33 (Bains, 2023) – would establish statewide
fentanyl task force.
• Naloxone mandates and funding.
General
public safety:
• SB 50 (Bradford) – would prohibit traffic stops for specified violations. • STATUS: Pending before Senate Appropriations
• AB 93 (Bryan) – would prohibit consent searches.
• STAUTS: On Assembly Floor.
• AB 443 (Jackson) – would define “bias conduct” for the purpose of officer discipline to include both implicit and explicit bias.
• STATUS: Pending before Assembly Appropriations
• AB 742 (Jackson) – would ban police K-9s from arrest, apprehension, and crowd control.
• STATUS: Pending before Assembly Appropriations Committee • AB 994 (Jackson) – would prohibit law enforcement from posting photos of suspects on social media, with limited exceptions.
• STATUS: Pending before Assembly Privacy Committee, hearing set for April 25 • SB 402 (Wahab) – would prohibit police from responding to various calls for service, including calls related to mental health and substance abuse. • STATUS: Likely a two-year bill.
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