County of Los Angeles v. Commission on State Mandates

Opinion

MUNOZ (AURELIO), J. *

A 1995 amendment to Penal Code section 13519 1 requires local law enforcement officers to participate in two hours of domestic violence training. The issue on appeal is whether this amendment resulted in a reimbursable state-mandated program within the meaning of article XIII B, section 6 of the California Constitution for the time spent by local law enforcement officers in such domestic violence training, although such officers were already required to spend 24 hours in continuing education training and the domestic violence training could be included within this…