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Legislative Update – March 15, 2024
With “Super Tuesday” – the primary election – and the Legislature’s bill introduction deadline in the rearview mirror, the stage has been set for an interesting 2024 both at the ballot box and before the State Legislature. First, the bill introduction deadline of February 16 yielded a total of 2,124 bills introduced, with 1,505 bills in the Assembly, and 619 bills in the Senate.
CSLEA 2024 Membership Conference March 22-23, 2024
The California Statewide Law Enforcement Association (CSLEA) and its 18 affiliate associations are holding an event that CLSEA members will not want to miss.
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Fourteen Dispatchers Training at CHP Academy in West Sacramento Value Union Membership
WEST SACRAMENTO – When dispatchers training at the CHP Academy in West Sacramento were presented with the opportunity to join and support the labor union that represents their job classification, 14 of them jumped at the chance to sign up for membership. “We spoke to an enthusiastic group of dispatchers on March 4th for what […]
CHP-PSDA’s Steve Fulton Welcomes Dispatchers to Union Membership at Clark Academy
RIVERSIDE – On February 6, 2024, Steve Fulton, Secretary-Treasurer of the CHP Public Safety Dispatchers Association (CHP-PSDA) conducted a new employee orientation for dispatchers training at the Ben Clark Training Center in Riverside. Fulton introduced the new dispatchers to their union, the California Statewide Law Enforcement Association (CSLEA) and its affiliate association, CHP-PSDA. He presented […]
CSLEA and ACWO Welcome New Members at CDFW Lateral Academy
WEST SACRAMENTO – On February 5, 2024, California Statewide Law Enforcement Association (CSLEA) Chief Counsel Kasey Clark, along with Association of California Wildlife Officers (ACWO) President Trevor Pell and ACWO Director Nathan Coyle, met with eight lateral officers who are beginning an eight-week academy at the California Department of Fish and Wildlife in West Sacramento. […]
CSLEA Member Receives Immediate LDF Assistance Following OIS in Tahoe
“CSLEA has a critical incident response protocol in place and it has repeatedly proven to be successful in getting our members the immediate LDF assistance that’s needed when an officer-involved shooting happens.” – CSLEA President Alan Barcelona SACRAMENTO – On Friday, January 26, 2024 at approximately 10:15 a.m., California Statewide Law Enforcement Association (CSLEA) Chief […]
CHP Dispatchers Training in West Sacramento Meet with Union Representatives
WEST SACRAMENTO – On January 22, 2024, 14 dispatchers training at the CHP Academy in West Sacramento met with union representatives from the California Statewide Law Enforcement Association (CSLEA) and its affiliate CHP-Public Safety Dispatchers Association (CHP-PSDA). CSLEA Senior Counsel Andrea Perez and CHP-PSDA Vice President Victor Tovar conducted a new employee orientation which gave […]
CSLEA Greets New State Parks Communications Operators
New Employee Orientation at Southern Communications Center PERRIS – On January 10, 2024, California Statewide Law Enforcement Association (CSLEA) Supervising Legal Counsel Dave De La Riva met with new communications operators at the California State Parks Southern Communications Center in Perris. De La Riva provided the communications operators with information about CSLEA’s benefits and services, […]
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Canine Unit Returns to CALFIRE’s OSFM Arson and Bomb Unit
SACRAMENTO – In February 2024, CALFIRE announced the return of the Canine Unit to the Office of the State Fire Marshal (OSFM). Celebrating the return are two California Statewide Law Enforcement Association (CSLEA) members who began training with their canine partners in July. Arson and Bomb Investigators Nicholas Schroeder and Charles Elder are now teamed […]
California DOJ Releases 2023 Armed and Prohibited Persons System Program Report
In 2023 special agents seized 1,443 firearms and contacted more than 25,000 people through the APPS program “California DOJ special agents in the Bureau of Firearms have the dangerous job of investigating the illegal possession of firearms by people who have failed to relinquish their weapons after, by law, they became barred from having them. […]
Former Fresno Sleep Clinic Owner Sentenced for Submitting Fraudulent Claims to Medicare
California Department of Health Care Services assisted with investigation “State and federal investigators work to protect programs supported by taxpayer money by investigating those who commit fraud in order to line their own pockets. Their work often goes unnoticed, but we very much appreciate their investigative efforts and the assistance they provide to prosecutors.” – […]
California ABC Agents Conduct Annual Statewide Shoulder Tap Operation
SACRAMENTO – As tradition now has it, on the weekend prior to St. Patrick’s Day, California Alcoholic Beverage Control (ABC) agents and their local law enforcement partners conducted a statewide underage drinking enforcement operation, targeting those who furnish alcohol to those under 21. Often referred to as a “Shoulder Tap” operation, agents and officers, with […]
Jury Convicts Chico Man in Robbery & Homicide of Local DJ
California Department of Justice criminalists assisted with trajectory investigation “We applaud the work of our California DOJ criminalists who combine science, knowledge, technology and training to evaluate evidence which lends itself to the truth of what happened when crimes are committed. Their work is a huge contribution to public safety and criminal justice.” – CSLEA […]
Santa Barbara Commercial Lobster Fisherman Convicted for Abandoning Traps
“Thanks to CDFW law enforcement officers, these abandoned commercial lobster traps have been removed and the culprit has been convicted.” -CSLEA President Alan Barcelona SANTA BARBARA- On March 4, 2024, the California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) announced the successful prosecution and conviction of a Santa Barbara commercial lobster fisherman on a multitude of […]