The Briefing Board Here you will find links to news articles and legislative actions that are of interest to our members. A California city offered a $75,000 bonus to new cops. These departments are trying to keep up - 9/6/23 Police Work Isn't a Tea Party - 8/14/23 New Bill Would End California Military Pension Tax - 8/14/23 CalPERS walks tightrope on ESG principles - 7/30/23 CalPERS Reports Preliminary 5.8% Investment Return for 2022-23 Fiscal Year - 7/19/23 CalPERS Announces Health Plan Premiums for 2024 Along With Expanded Cost-Saving Options for Members - 7/19/23 CA police watchdog will soon receive wave of misconduct records, and recent reprimands spell trouble for impugned Antioch cops - 6/29/23 Will California’s largest pensions, CalPERS and CalSTRS, divest from fossil fuels? - 6/29/23 Police in California aren't immune from certain misconduct lawsuits, high court rules - 6/24/23 CalPERS Takes Action in Response to Third-Party Breach of Retiree Information - 6/22/23 California governor proposes rolling back access to police misconduct records - 6/19/23 California pension fund looks to boost venture capital investments despite startup market turmoil - 6/19/23 Thousands of CA police officers could be stripped of their badges under new law - 6/15/23 LA City Council takes a small step toward creating ‘Office of Unarmed Response’ - 6/7/23 Thousands of Ventura County retirees face pension cuts - 5/22/23 The state legislature shouldn’t politicize or micromanage public pension investments - 5/3/23 Teacher Pension Fund Betrays Its Mission - 5/2/23 Bill To Force CalPERS, CalSTRS Divestment from Fossil Fuel Investments Passes Second Committee 4/21/23 Retired Public Servant Feels Government Pension Offset is “Unjust” - 4/5/23 2 former San Bernardino police officers face decertification for serious misconduct - 4/5/23 Opinion: It’s Time for Congress to Clarify LEOSA - 3/30/23 Wash. bill would remove English language requirement for city firefighters, police - 3/25/23 4 Silicon Valley Bank collapse takeaways for public school pension funds - 3/20/23 Court Grants Preliminary Approval to Second Settlement in CalPERS Long-Term Care Class Action - 3/11/23 Ventura allocates $10.5 million from general fund to lower its pension debt - 3/9/23 Alaska State Workers Hoodwinked Into Believing 401(k)-Style Retirement Plan Was As Good As A Pension - 3/6/23 Los Angeles police union proposes limits to 911 responses - 3/2/23 LA Mayor Bass calls to root out ‘right-wing extremist’ police, signals lowering the bar for new recruits - 2/28/23 Why Would Anyone Want to Be a Cop in Los Angeles Today? - 2/27/23 Gavin Newsom moved to close 4 California prisons. How many more can he shut? - 2/24/23 Sonoma County studies pension policy as retirement benefits lose value - 2/20/23 CAFOP - Op-ed Article by Bill Young, #951 - 2/18/23 Proposed CA Bill Would End Use of K-9s During Arrests - 2/16/23 Public pension funds lowered expectations for returns as expenses spiked in fiscal 2022 - 2/13/23 Keep politics out of CalPERS, reject Senate Bill 252 - 2/9/23 California bills call for CalPERS, CalSTRS to divest fossil fuels, company climate disclosure - 2/6/23 With CalPERS, add another to list of California’s botched projects - 1/31/23 State, municipal pension funding dropped 6% in 2022: New approaches are needed - 1/26/23 Los Angeles Descends Into Insanity - 1/17/23 Pension spending boosted US economy during pandemic - 1/9/23 Only 2 states can fully cover their promised pensions. See how your state handles retirement benefits - 1/2/23 South Florida pension fund sues FIGS for disappointing financial performance - 1/2/23 Catastrophic staffing shortage’ hits California’s rural police first, and hardest - 12/17/22 How Secure Public Pensions Are In California - 12/12/22 Yvonne Walker Wins CalPERS Retiree Board Seat - 12/9/22 US police rarely deploy deadly robots to confront suspects - 12/5/22 How did confidential gun permit data get leaked? - 12/5/22 CalPERS boosts staff's investment authority, checks crypto - 12/5/22 Voting Begins for CalPERS Special Retired Member Board Election Runoff - 11/4/22 Gov. Newsom's veto on bill affecting Ventura County pensions to lower payouts - 10/4/22 Runoff Election Needed to Determine Winner of CalPERS Board Retired Member Seat - 9/29/22 47 Alameda County Sheriff deputies get unsatisfactory on psych evaluations; relieved of duties - 9/27/22 H.R.82 Social Security Fairness Act passed by Committee - 9/21/22 California Pension Fund Seeks to Halve Exposure to Carbon Emitters - 9/12/22