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POST reports decertification progress and case backlog; commission approves final felony revocations
Summary
POST reported progress reducing its certification case backlog and described decertification actions; commissioners approved the last scheduled roll of felony‑based revocations and delegated future ministerial revocations to the executive director.
POST staff reported steady progress on certification work under the state’s Senate Bill 2 regime and presented the commission with several final revocation actions related to pre‑SB 2 felony convictions.
Michelle Wyler, certification bureau chief, told commissioners that POST continues to reduce a multi‑year backlog of cases. She said that cases pending with POST had been approximately 13,312 as of a prior reporting date and that the agency was working its way down to about 6,200 cases; roughly 6,000 additional cases remained with local law‑enforcement agencies for investigation or initial reporting. Wyler emphasized that many of the pending files are priority 3 and 4 retroactive cases that had already undergone initial triage and screening.
Wyler also presented three officers POST deemed ineligible under Government Code section 1029 (individuals convicted before January 1, 2022) and a separate list of six officers whose certifications POST sought to revoke under the statute; those revocations were the last the commission needed to hear because POST had completed rulemaking to delegate ministerial felony‑based revocations to the executive director.
The commission voted to approve the final set of revocations. POST staff reported that after the rule change POST will exercise the delegated authority for the routine ministerial revocations and only bring contested or unusual cases back to the full commission.
Chiefs and commissioners at the meeting expressed interest in additional breakdowns of educational background among officers and asked staff to provide percentage‑based panels (for example, percent with bachelor’s degrees) rather than raw counts; staff said that an updated public dashboard and further disaggregated reporting could be prepared.
Why it matters: SB 2 created a large new reporting and review workload for POST and local agencies by requiring disclosure of allegations of officer misconduct. The commission’s action delegates routine administrative revocations to staff while preserving commission review in complex or contested matters; staff said the change will speed ministerial enforcement while reserving public hearings when officers request administrative review.
