Long Beach Police Officers Assn. v. City of Long Beach

Opinion

KAUFMAN, J.

We granted review in this case to consider whether Government Code section 1126, which prohibits officers and employees of cities and other local agencies from engaging in collateral activities that conflict with their official duties, was intended to limit a local agency’s power to impose restrictions on off-duty activities not specifically delineated in the statute, and if so whether the statute, as applied to a charter city, conflicts with the home rule provisions of article XI, section 5 of the California Constitution. We have concluded that section 1126 was not intended…