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State bill will make proprietary guards subject to incident reporting; baton permits moved to bureau with two-year renewals
Summary
At the Nov. 10 BSIS advisory committee meeting, bureau staff outlined implementation steps for AB 2515, which brings proprietary security employees under the bureau's incident-reporting rules and changes baton-permit issuance and renewal requirements.
Lynn Jensen, bureau chief of the Bureau of Security and Investigative Services, told the advisory committee on Nov. 10 that AB 2515 requires proprietary security staff to follow the same incident-reporting rules as private security companies and changes how baton permits are issued and renewed.
The bill will, for the first time, make certain proprietary security employees subject to the bureau's incident-reporting requirements. "Proprietary guards are now subject to the same reporting requirements to BSIS that private guards are," Jensen said during the legislative update. Committee members were told the requirement will cover specific incident types enumerated in statute.
Jensen also described changes to baton permits. Under AB 2515, baton permits will no longer be lifetime authorizations issued by training facilities; instead the bureau will issue and manage baton permits and require renewals every two years with continuing-education components. "These permits are now not lifetime permits anymore, but they are required to be renewed every 2 years, and there is a continuing education component to that," Jensen said.
The bureau said regulations implementing parts of AB 2515 are in the early stages of rulemaking and staff will publish regulatory materials for public comment as they move forward. Sam Studolski, enforcement unit lead, said the bureau is preparing outreach and educational materials for employers and law enforcement to explain the changes and reporting requirements to proprietary and private employers.
Committee members asked procedural questions about outreach and timelines; staff did not give a final effective date for the statute's regulatory provisions beyond noting that rulemaking is underway. The bureau also reported it obtained a six-month delay to implement certain AB 229 training and power-to-arrest provisions; those provisions now take effect July 1, 2023, rather than Jan. 1, 2023.
Implementation tasks the bureau reported included drafting regulatory language, updating employer and law enforcement guidance, and preparing compliance outreach to affected employers and proprietary security programs. Staff stressed the need for industry participation in upcoming public comment periods on draft regulations.
The committee did not take formal action on AB 2515 at the meeting; staff requested the committee's assistance in identifying stakeholder groups for outreach and encouraged members to watch for regulatory notices and sign up for the bureau's email list for updates.
