Honorary Badges not to be used if stopped for DUI in California
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Push to stop badge-holders from displaying during California DUI investigation
SACRAMENTO California
The Attorney General's Office is reclaiming honorary police-type badges it gave its 1,200 California attorneys because the agency has declared the practice - common in local government - to be illegal.
In turn, local enforcement agencies are reviewing their policies, since the formal opinion by the Attorney General's Office says the badges - sometimes displayed by California DUI suspects during California DUI investigations - resemble those of cops, can be misused by recipients, who are not sworn law-enforcement officers.
A controversy arose after a legislative staffer for Assemblyman Mervyn Dymally, D-Compton, showed a legislative badge during a California DUI arrest.
http://abc.com
Push to stop badge-holders from displaying during California DUI investigation
SACRAMENTO California
The Attorney General's Office is reclaiming honorary police-type badges it gave its 1,200 California attorneys because the agency has declared the practice - common in local government - to be illegal.
In turn, local enforcement agencies are reviewing their policies, since the formal opinion by the Attorney General's Office says the badges - sometimes displayed by California DUI suspects during California DUI investigations - resemble those of cops, can be misused by recipients, who are not sworn law-enforcement officers.
A controversy arose after a legislative staffer for Assemblyman Mervyn Dymally, D-Compton, showed a legislative badge during a California DUI arrest.
http://abc.com
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