Vote Smart's Synopsis:

Vote to pass a bill that expands the arrest powers of detention officers.

Highlights:

• Authorizes a detention officer acting in the officer’s official capacity pursuant to an existing warrant, to arrest a person who is (Sec. 1):

• Already incarcerated in a jail facility or who surrenders to a jail facility at which the officer is employed;

• At a hospital facility to which the detention officer is assigned, and the person to be arrested is under law enforcement supervision or custody while in the facility;

• At a superior, justice, or municipal court facility to which the detention officer is assigned; or

• Within a jail facility as a visitor and the person is found to have an outstanding warrant.

• Authorizes a detention officer acting in the officer’s official capacity, to take custody of a person whom a judicial officer remands into custody during a court proceeding (Sec. 1).

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