California Government Code CHAPTER 9.7 - Public Safety Officers

• Section 3300.
  This chapter is known and may be cited as the Public Safety Officers Procedural Bill of Rights Act.(Added by Stats. 1976, Ch. 465.)
• Section 3301.
  For purposes of this chapter, the term public safety officer means all peace officers specified in Sections 830.1, 830.2, 830.3, 830.31, 830.32, 830.33, except subdivision...
• Section 3302.
  (a) Except as otherwise provided by law, or whenever on duty or in uniform, no public safety officer shall be prohibited from engaging, or be coerced...
• Section 3303.
  When any public safety officer is under investigation and subjected to interrogation by his or her commanding officer, or any other member of the employing...
• Section 3304.
  (a) No public safety officer shall be subjected to punitive action, or denied promotion, or be threatened with any such treatment, because of the lawful exercise...
• Section 3304.5.
  An administrative appeal instituted by a public safety officer under this chapter shall be conducted in conformance with rules and procedures adopted by the local...
• Section 3305.
  No public safety officer shall have any comment adverse to his interest entered in his personnel file, or any other file used for any personnel...
• Section 3305.5.
  (a) A punitive action, or denial of promotion on grounds other than merit, shall not be undertaken by any public agency against any public safety officer...
• Section 3306.
  A public safety officer shall have 30 days within which to file a written response to any adverse comment entered in his personnel file. Such...
• Section 3306.5.
  (a) Every employer shall, at reasonable times and at reasonable intervals, upon the request of a public safety officer, during usual business hours, with no loss...
• Section 3307.
  (a) No public safety officer shall be compelled to submit to a lie detector test against his or her will. No disciplinary action or other recrimination...
• Section 3307.5.
  (a) No public safety officer shall be required as a condition of employment by his or her employing public safety department or other public agency to...
• Section 3308.
  No public safety officer shall be required or requested for purposes of job assignment or other personnel action to disclose any item of his property,...
• Section 3309.
  No public safety officer shall have his locker, or other space for storage that may be assigned to him searched except in his presence, or...
• Section 3309.5.
  (a) It shall be unlawful for any public safety department to deny or refuse to any public safety officer the rights and protections guaranteed to him...
• Section 3310.
  Any public agency which has adopted, through action of its governing body or its official designee, any procedure which at a minimum provides to peace...
• Section 3311.
  Nothing in this chapter shall in any way be construed to limit the use of any public safety agency or any public safety officer in...
• Section 3312.
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the employer of a public safety officer may not take any punitive action against an officer for wearing a...
• Section 3313.
  In the 2005–06 fiscal year, the Commission on State Mandates shall review its statement of decision regarding the Peace Officer Procedural Bill of Rights test...

Last modified: October 22, 2018