Existing law, the Proprietary Security Services Act, prohibits a person from engaging in the business of a proprietary private security officer or a proprietary private security employer unless registered with the Department of Consumer Affairs. Existing law makes a violation of these provisions an infraction, as specified. Existing law requires a person who is registered and hired as a proprietary private security officer to complete training in security officer skills within 6 months from the date upon which registration is issued, or within 6 months of their employment with a proprietary private security employer, as specified. Existing law prohibits a proprietary private security employer from engaging in specified acts and authorizes the Director of Consumer Affairs to issue a citation, which may include an order to pay specified administrative fines for a violation of these provisions.

This bill would recast those training provisions to require the training to be 34 hours, to require an applicant for a proprietary private security officer registration to complete a course in the exercise of the power to arrest and the appropriate use of force as a condition of issuance of the registration, and to require a proprietary private security officer registrant to meet specified standards and requirements. The bill would also require a registered proprietary private security employee annually to complete a minimum of 8 hours of training dedicated to practicing deescalation skills, as specified.

This bill would increase the administrative fine that the director may impose upon a proprietary private security employer for failure to properly maintain accurate and current employment and training records or failure to administer to registered employees of the licensee the review or practice training, as specified, from $500 to $1,000, and would specify that the fine is for each violation. The bill would require a private security employer to ensure that the security skills training occurs and to compensate employees for training, as specified. The bill would authorize the director to impose an administrative fine for a violation of these provisions not exceeding $10,000 per violation.

Existing law, the Private Security Services Act, requires the Director of Consumer Affairs to administer its provisions. Existing law prohibits a person licensed as a private patrol operator from engaging in specified acts. Existing law requires a person registered as a security guard or patrolperson, and their employer, to deliver to the director a written report fully describing the circumstances surrounding any discharge of any firearm or physical altercation with a member of the public in which they were involved while acting within the course and scope of their employment within 7 days after the incident, as specified. Existing law makes any person who violates any of these provisions relating to private patrol operator licensure guilty of a misdemeanor.

Existing law requires persons licensed under these provisions and persons who are employed and compensated by a licensee as a security guard or patrolperson, and who in the course of that employment or business carries a firearm, to undergo specified training in the exercise of the power to arrest and the appropriate use of force and a course of training in the carrying and use of firearms.

This bill would require the department to develop and establish by regulation a standard course and curriculum that shall include a minimum number of hours of instruction for training individuals on the role of implicit and explicit bias on racial profiling and the use of firearms in various settings.

Existing law requires each applicant for a security guard registration to complete a course in the exercise of the power to arrest and the appropriate use of force as a condition for the issuance of the registration. Existing law requires a security guard registrant to, as specified, complete 32 hours of training in security officer skills within 6 months from the date of an initial registration, 16 of which are required to be completed within 30 days from the date that the registration is issued.

This bill would recast these training provisions, increase the required hours of security guard training to 34, and require that the training be conducted through traditional in-person classroom instruction, as defined. The bill would increase the requirement that a registrant annually complete 8 hours of review or practice of security officer skills to 16 hours, require that 8 of those hours be dedicated to deescalation skills, as specified, and make other conforming changes. The bill would require 2 hours of training to be dedicated to training employees on specified workers’ rights contained in a notice employers are required to provide employees as specified. The bill would require a person licensed as a private patrol operator to ensure that security skills training occurs and to compensate employees for this training, as specified.

This bill, beginning on July 1, 2027, would revise provisions that describe those entities that are qualified to administer, test, and certify the course of training in the exercise of the power to arrest and the appropriate use of force.

This bill would require the Bureau of Security and Investigative Services, if it adopts, modifies, or seeks to rescind a rule or regulation related to the provisions described above relating to the private security services to convene a training advisory committee to recommend requirements and share their experience in the security industry, as specified.

Existing law authorizes the bureau to issue a firearm permit to an applicant who has satisfied specified qualifications, including satisfactory completion of a course of training in the carrying and usage of firearms in the format delineated in the bureau’s “Firearms Training Manual” which is required to be covered in class instruction totaling not less than 8 hours for the initial firearms qualification.

This bill would increase the class instruction requirement from 8 hours to 16.

Existing law authorizes the director to issue a citation to a licensee or registrant for violation of specified provisions which may contain an assessment of an administrative fine not exceeding $2,500.

This bill would increase the amount of the administrative fine that may be assessed by the director to $10,000 per violation.

Existing law requires the Industrial Welfare Commission to conduct a full review of the adequacy of the minimum wage at least once every 2 years and to amend or rescind any wage order or portion of any order or adopt an order covering any occupation, trade, or industry not covered by an existing order.

This bill would require the commission to convene on or before July 1, 2027, to perform the duties and functions described above for the property services industry, as defined, and to issue a wage order specific to employees in that industry by June 30, 2028, as specified.