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Government,
Criminal

Oct. 24, 2019

Less heralded than AB 392, SB 230 may have greater long term impact on police practices

California’s Legislature passed two laws this year, Assembly Bill 392 and Senate Bill 230, which modernize the state’s use of force and related training requirements for police officers starting Jan. 1, 2020, replacing standards first established and, incredibly, unchanged since 1872. The former got star attention to date, but the latter may ultimately prove more important.

J. Scott Tiedemann

Co-Managing Partner
Liebert Cassidy Whitmore

Phone: (310) 981-2000

Email: stiedemann@lcwlegal.com

J. Scott Tiedemann is the Firm Co-Managing Partner of Liebert Cassidy Whitmore, California's largest education, public sector and non-profit labor and employment law firm. He leads the workplace investigations team, advising private businesses on employment-related investigations, and advises public safety agencies across California on a myriad of labor and employment issues.

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Paul D. Knothe

Partner
Liebert Cassidy Whitmore

Phone: (310) 981-2029

Email: pknothe@lcwlegal.com

Georgetown Univ Law Ctr; Washington DC

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California's Legislature passed two laws this year, Assembly Bill 392 and Senate Bill 230, which modernize the state's use of force and related training requirements for police officers starting Jan. 1, 2020, replacing standards first established and, incredibly, unchanged since 1872. The former got star attention to date, but the latter may ultimately prove more important.

AB 392, authored by Assemblymember Shirley Weber, garnered t...

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