u/Uniform_Restorer

SEIU has proposed SB 1203 through the Senate Committee on Public Safety which is currently gaining traction in Sacramento that aims to overhaul the current training requirements for Security Guards in California. If this bill passes, it will subsequently either price-out the majority of the industry, or force them to join SEIU. SEIU claims that this is “for our benefit” and that “we’ll get paid more”, but make no mistake; this will be the death of most companies that aren’t major corporations or massive unions like SEIU. Here’s just a few things that the bill proposes verbatim:

- This bill requires a PSO to complete 34 hours of training in security officer skills within 6
months from the date registration is issued, 18 of which must be completed 30 days from the date
of registration.
- This bill provides that in addition to any annual training required by regulation, each employee
registered pursuant to the Proprietary Security Services Act shall annually complete a minimum of eight hours of training dedicated to practicing deescalation skills through in-person role-play
and interactive training methods administered by an organization, or a person certified by an
organization, that employs evidence-based, trauma-informed techniques and strategies in their
training. The training time shall be compensated by the employer.
- This bill increases the total number of hours that a security guard registrant must complete from
32 to 34 and provides that 18 of these hours must be completed within 30 days from the date
registration is issued.
- This bill requires that all 34 hours shall be conducted through traditional classroom instruction
and provides that no part of the training shall be completed while a guard is on duty.
- This bill increases the annual number of hours a registrant shall complete dedicated to review or
practice of security officer skills, from 8 to 16, and provides that At least eight of these hours
must be dedicated to practicing deescalation skills through in-person role-play and interactive
training methods administered by an organization, or a person certified by an organization, that
employs evidence-based, trauma-informed techniques and strategies in their training.
- This bill provides that, effective January 1, 2028, the required PPO training course on arrest
powers and use of force may not be administered, tested or certified by any organization that is a
licensee, and that the DCA may approve any non-licensed person to teach the course.
- This bill increases the total duration of the PPO training course on arrest powers and use of force
from 8 hours to 16 hours.
- This bill specifies that the portions of the de-escalation training shall be no less than 8 hours in
duration, which shall not be considered when determining whether the training as a whole meets
the requirements of existing law and this bill, and must be compensated by the trainee’s
employer, including the cost of the training.
- This bill specifies that an organization that employs evidence-based, trauma-informed techniques
and strategies shall be an organization whose mission or purpose is to provide specialized
deescalation training that is based on principles and methods informed by peer-reviewed or
clinical research on trauma and includes role-playing and interactive methods.
- This bill requires BSIS to develop emergency regulations establishing the criteria that BSIS shall
use to evaluate whether any organization is a qualifying organization, and identify qualifying
organizations by January 1, 2028.

TL:DR on the above paragraphs: Training will increase to 62+ hours for initial issue including mandatory classroom time for all of that, 16+ hours yearly including mandatory classroom time for all of that, any BSIS instructor who holds a Guard Card/Baton Permit/Exposed Firearm Permit will no longer be a qualified instructor (instructor shortage), and all training moving forward will have to be done through one of the newly-approved training organizations (which is going to be the large unions like SEIU; how convenient).

Your training times will go up, your training costs will go up to $600+ a year just to keep your Guard Card, and you’ll be forced to either join a massive corporation or a union because I guarantee that small-to-mid-sized companies won’t survive this. Don’t fall for the glaze and promises that this will get you paid more; this will kill us. I implore all of y’all who live in California to share this around, and to write to your Representatives and Senators to oppose this bill. Call them. Leave voicemails. Do whatever you can, because if this bill passes, our jobs will be in direct and immediate peril. It’s currently still in the proposal stage, this is our best chance at getting this dropped before it can gain traction. Rally up, y’all.

I very recently switched over from Peerless cuffs to ASP, and now own one pair each of the ASP Plus hinge and chain cuffs, specifically the forged steel bow versions. My cuffs are practically brand new, having been put on only maybe like 8 people so far.

I keep having an issue where the handcuff key ends up binding/jamming up in the keyway when I go to take them off a subject's wrists, and it takes a bunch of aggressively wiggling the key around before it'll disengage the double-lock and then actually unlock the cuffs. I've noticed it typically is worse when they've been on a subject for a while, or if they've been struggling/moving around a lot before I remove them. I've been made aware of the shitty tolerances between the keyway and the frame from a co-worker who's been using ASP cuffs for a while, including that annoying gap that the tooth of the handcuff key fits and rotates into without actually engaging with the locking mechanism. I've noticed this issue on both the chain and hinge cuffs, and asking my co-owner who's been using his ASP cuffs for a while, he's experienced it too.

Has anyone experienced this specific issue? If so, have you figured out if there's a way to prevent it? Perhaps maybe something you can do to maintenance-wise, or maybe a specific technique, or perhaps a different brand/style of handcuff key works a bit better? I'm just throwing shit at the wall here and hoping something sticks, since these cuffs weren't cheap. Thanks in advance, y'all.