Security services

The law requires more in-person, hands-on deescalation and worker-rights training while making employers pay for required training time and costs. It also expands public reporting on security-force incidents.

What the law does ​

• Raises required initial security-skills training for security guards and proprietary private security officers from 32 to 42 hours, with 18 hours due within 30 days.
• Requires two hours of initial training on workers’ rights and eight hours of in-person, role-play deescalation training using trauma-informed methods.
• Requires 12 hours of paid annual skills training, including at least four hours of deescalation practice.
• Requires employers to pay for required training and training time, and bars guards from completing the training while on duty at their posts.
• Requires the Department of Consumer Affairs to create firearm-training curriculum on implicit and explicit bias, racial profiling, and firearm use in specified settings.
• Expands required incident reports to cover injuries requiring aid to security officers and to identify the public member’s apparent race and gender and whether the officer had completed required training.
• Requires annual county-level public reports on security firearm discharges and physical-force incidents.
• Increases or creates fines for training-record, training-delivery, and training-pay violations, while reducing the fine for failing to file certain private-patrol incident reports to $2,500 per violation.

Who it affects ​

• Licensed private patrol operators and proprietary private security employers.
• Registered security guards and proprietary private security officers.
• Security-training providers, schools, organizations, and qualifying labor organizations.
• Members of the public involved in reported physical altercations with security officers.

Context ​

The major training, reporting, and penalty changes take effect January 1, 2029.