Maritime Reflections: Pirates
In November 2022, the City of Irvine was the first city in Orange County to pass a Hotel Worker Protection Ordinance. The ordinance generally took effect on December 22, 2022. However, the fair compensation for workload...more
Hosted by CI, the inaugural Police Tech Conference & Expo provides the unique opportunity to experience hands-on the latest technology solutions specifically tailored for law enforcement. Learn how new devices and services...more
New Public Safety Measures: Mayor Kenney Signs Executive Order, CCD Plans to Add More Security Guards to Center City Streets- Leaders inside and outside of City Hall have been steadfastly searching for solutions to...more
The multi-floored music meccas known as honky-tonks have made Nashville a key travel destination. Considering that these bars quickly fill with drunken partygoers, many honky-tonks staff security to keep the revelry at a...more
On June 28, 2022, the Los Angeles City Council passed an ordinance designed to increase safety protections for hotel workers in hotels, to limit their daily workload, and to raise their wages. Mayor Eric Garcetti is...more
When it comes to defining a security company’s obligations, words may speak louder than actions. On January 06, 2021, the Third District Court of Appeal issued its opinion in Margery Glickman and Fred Glickman vs. Kindred...more
In the spirit of the season—and keeping some semblance of normal—we are using our annual "12 days of the holidays" blog series to address new California laws and their impact on California employers. On this seventh day of...more
If your workforce includes private security officers, then new Assembly Bill 1512 should come as great news to you. Back in 2016, the California Supreme Court issued a controversial decision called Augustus v. ABM Security...more
On September 30, 2020, Governor Gavin Newsom signed Assembly Bill (AB) 1512, which amends California Labor Code Section 226.7 by authorizing employers to require certain unionized private security officers “to remain on the...more
On September 30, 2020, Governor Newsom signed Assembly Bill 1512 (“AB 1512”), which for the first time allows employers to require their unionized security officers to take on-duty rest breaks. Historically, employees could...more
This article follows an earlier article on hazard pay.... Hazard pay legislation is expanding nationwide at all levels of government. The growth in calls for hazard pay is the result of a shift in perception of the types of...more
The NRC’s Office of Enforcement (OE) recently issued Enforcement Guidance Memorandum (EGM) 20-002, providing guidance to NRC inspection staff for exercising enforcement discretion for licensees impacted by the coronavirus...more
Security companies may be liable for criminal acts committed by their security guards while on duty under theories of negligent hiring and negligent supervision. But must a security company prepare itself for litigation as a...more
Schmidt v. Superior Court, 44 Cal. App. 5th 570 (2020) - Tamika Schmidt and Danielle Penny, two employees at the Hall of Justice for Ventura Superior Court, claimed they were sexually harassed by a security guard named...more
On September 20, 2019, the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit ruled in Robert Kenney v. Helix TCS, Inc. that the Fair Labor Standards Act (FSLA) applies to workers in the cannabis industry. This is a...more
Governor Pritzker recently signed a law requiring notification or attempted notification of the parent or guardian of a student suspected of criminal activity prior to detaining and questioning the student on school grounds...more
In 2016, OSHA issued a serious citation to a private security guard firm that did not require its armed security guards to wear bulletproof vests. An ALJ tossed out the citation, but the story’s not over. OSHA has an appeal...more
Insurers often claim “economic damages” are not covered under a standard commercial general liability (CGL) policy. The Fourth District Court of Appeal’s decision in Thee Sombrero, Inc. v. Scottsdale Ins. Co., 28 Cal. App....more
School district practices for getting armed personnel on site once seemed like the Wild West, with each district interpreting the requirements in its own way. But on February 22, 2019, Pennsylvania’s Department of Education...more
In yet another legal development calling into question a traditional independent contractor relationship in the U.S., the Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit determined that off-duty police officers were employees of a...more
General liability insurance policies normally cover “property damage.” Physical injury to, or outright destruction of, property almost always fits within policy coverage. But what about situations when the property is not...more
Last summer, I wrote an article titled “The Crisis of Free Speech on Campus: Not Fake News,” which commented on the growing intolerance of free speech on college and university campuses that has resulted in incidents of...more
Reverend Leatl Hope, pastor of the First Church of the Boring Seventh Day Adventist Church in Gun Barrel City has been reading about the deadly shootings in churches all over the country, and he is worried. His small...more
Which party first breached a contract often plays a determinative role in assessing entitlement for damages in a contract dispute. This theory is often referred to as the First or Material Breach Doctrine....more
Seyfarth Synopsis: The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals applied a broad definition of who constitutes a statutory “guard” under the NLRA, finding that security technicians at two Las Vegas casinos were guards who could not be...more