The Briefing Board Here you will find links to news articles and legislative actions that are of interest to our members. 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 US pension funds up real estate exposure to offset rising risks - 8/29/22 CalPERS Special Retired Member Board Election Underway as Voting Begins - 8/26/22 Rule Change Reversed; H.R. 82 back on track - 7/30/22 New police accountability laws up demands on state agencies - 7/27/22 Assemblyman Patterson Makes Audit Request of Calif. DOJ Over Leaked Gun Owners List - 7/20/22 CalPERS Announces Preliminary Net Investment Return of -6.1% for the 2021-22 Fiscal Year - 7/20/22 Upland attorney sues California attorney general over concealed weapon database leak - 7/19/22 CalPERS Announces Health Plan Premiums for 2023 - 7/12/22 Experts: California lacked safeguards for gun owner info - 7/2/22 California DOJ Alerts Individuals Impacted by Exposure of Personal Information from 2022 Firearms Dashboard - 6/30/22 Data breach exposes private info of all California concealed-carry permit holders - 6/29/22 California bill would make gunowners buy liability insurance 6/17/22 $2.7 billion settlement in CalPERS long-term care insurance lawsuit is canceled 5/23/22 Why the Push to Lower Standards For Becoming A District Attorney Investigator? 5/15/22 CalPERS Rules Out Santa Ana Police Union Boss’ Pension Boost - 5/5/22
