Peace officers: San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District Police Department.

(1) Under existing law, a member of the San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District Police Department is a peace officer if the primary duty of the peace officer is the enforcement of the law in or about the properties of the district. Existing law requires every law enforcement agency in the state to develop, adopt, and implement written policies and standards for officers' responses to domestic violence calls that encourage the arrest of domestic violence offenders if there is probable cause that an offense has been committed. Existing law defines "officer" for these purposes. This bill would include a member of the San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District Police Department in the definition of "officer" for the purposes of these provisions. By increasing the duties of a local agency, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. (2) Under existing law, a person who willfully, maliciously, and repeatedly follows or harasses another person and who makes a credible threat with the intent to place that person in reasonable fear for his or her safety, is guilty of the crime of stalking. Existing law allows a judicial officer to issue an ex parte emergency protective order if a peace officer, as defined, asserts reasonable grounds to believe that a person is in immediate and present danger of stalking, as provided. This bill would include a member of the San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District Police Department in the definition of peace officer for the purposes of these provisions. (3) Existing law requires certain specified peace officers to take temporary custody of any firearm or other deadly weapon discovered at the scene of a domestic violence incident involving a threat to human life or physical assault or if the peace officer is serving a protective order. This bill would include a member of the San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District Police Department among the peace officers to whom these provisions apply. By increasing the duties of local peace officers, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. (4) Existing law authorizes the Sacramento Regional Transit District, the Fresno Area Express, and, until January 1, 2015, the San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District, to issue a prohibition order to a person who has been cited on at least 3 separate occasions, within a period of 90 days, for specified infractions committed in or on a vehicle, bus stop, or train or light rail station of the transit district. This bill would authorize the San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District to issue a prohibition order pursuant to the above provisions until January 1, 2018. This bill would incorporate additional changes in Section 18250 of the Penal Code, proposed by AB 1014, to be operative only if AB 1014 and this bill are enacted and become effective on or before January 1, 2015, and this bill is enacted last. (5) The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement. This bill would provide that, if the Commission on State Mandates determines that the bill contains costs mandated by the state, reimbursement for those costs shall be made pursuant to these statutory provisions.