A California bill to ban the use of police dogs for arrests and crowd control has advanced in a state Assembly committee March 21.
Public Safety Committee members voted along party lines to pass Assembly Bill 742, introduced by Assemblymen Corey Jackson’s (D-Perris) and Ash Kalra (D-San Jose). Six Democrats voted in favor while the two Republican Assemblymen on the committee—Juan Alanis, of Modesto, and Tom Lackey, of Palmdale—voted against it.
The bill now moves to the Assembly Appropriations Committee.
When AB 742 was introduced in February, Jackson and Kalra called the law enforcement’s use of canines “deeply racialized and harmful.” American Civil Liberties Union’s California chapter co-sponsored the bill….