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49 California Attorney General Reports and Opinions 1 (1967)

handle is hein.sag/sagca0049 and id is 1 raw text is: OPINIONS OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL OF CALIFORNIA Volume 49 Opinion No. 66-239-January 19, 1967 SUBJECT: PEACE OFFICERS-A governmental agency need not allow time off and need not arrange its work schedules to enable peace officers to attend meetings or otherwise carry out the objectives of the officers' employee organ- izations, but the agency must refrain from activities which might be construed as interference with, or intimidation, restraint, coercion or discrimination against officers because of their organizational activities. Requested by: ASSEMBLYMAN, 38th DISTRICT Opinion by: THOMAS C. LYNCH, Attorney General Jan S. Stevens, Deputy The Honorable Carley V. Porter, Assemblyman, Thirty-Eighth District, has requested the opinion of this office on the following questions pertaining to the organizational rights of California peace officers: 1. Must a governmental agency provide peace officers reasonable time off to carry out the objectives of their employee organizations? 2. Does the prohibition of an officer of a peace officers' organization from attending meetings of such an organization during working hours constitute a violation of sections 3500-3509 of the Government Code? 3. Since officers of such an organization may work different shifts and days (and therefore may not be off on the same day and times), must the employing agency arrange schedules so that they may effectively meet with their organizations? 4. Finally, what additional protections are members of such organizations provided to insure that the right to belong is effective? 1