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ett Old I PI pL£ASANTON. injury, sexual assault, discharge of a firearm, or dishonesty relating to the reporting, investigation, or prosecution of a crime or misconduct by another peace officer or custodial officer, despite the peace officer's or custodial officer's voluntary separation from the employing agency. The bill would require the investigation to result in a finding that the allegation is either sustained, not sustained, unfounded, or exonerated. The bill would also require an agency other than an officer's employing agency that conducts an investigation of these allegations to disclose its findings with the employing agency no later than the conclusion of the investigation. AB 1652 (Wicks) Law enforcement agency policies: use of force: protests. This bill would require each law enforcement agency to expand the agency's use of force policy to include clear and specific guidelines under which officers may use "kettling" or "corralling," and to prohibit officers from failing to wear, or intentionally obscure or conceal information on, a badge while on duty. The bill would also require each agency's policy to prohibit law enforcement officers from using force on individuals engaged in, or members of the press covering, a lawful assembly or protest and would further require the policy to require that an officer who is found to have intentionally violated this policy be suspended. This bill would restrict law enforcement tactics to protect lives and property in dynamic events where nefarious actors are embedded with lawful protestors. This bill also mandates penalties for violation which usurps the due process in employee discipline. AB 1775 (Jones-Sawyer) False reports and harassment. Current law makes certain publications and communications, including certain communications in a legislative proceeding, judicial proceeding, any other official proceeding authorized by law, or in the initiation or course of any other proceeding authorized by law and reviewable pursuant to a writ of mandate, privileged, and therefore protected from civil action, subject to certain exceptions. These exceptions include any communication made in a judicial proceeding knowingly concealing the existence of an insurance policy or policies. This bill would additionally create an exception to the privilege provisions for any communication between a person and a law enforcement agency in which the person knowingly or recklessly makes a false report that another person has committed, or is in the act of committing, a criminal act or is engaged in an activity requiring law enforcement intervention. AB 1950 (Kamlager) Probation: length of terms. Current law authorizes courts that have jurisdiction in misdemeanor cases to suspend the sentence and make and enforce terms of probation in those cases, for a period not to exceed 3 years, except when the period of the maximum sentence imposed by law exceeds 3 years, in which case the terms of probation may be imposed for a longer period than 3 years, but not to exceed the time for which the person may be imprisoned. This bill would instead restrict the period of probation for a misdemeanor to no longer than one year, except as specified. 6