CALSAGA meets with key government appointees

On Tuesday, December 11, CALSAGA representatives including Deputy Association Manager, William Hodges, Tony Sabatino from Securitas Security Services and CALSAGA lobbyist, Kelly Jensen met with the Governor's Secretary of Legislative Affairs, Chris Kahn and Carrie Lopez who is the Director of the Department of Consumer Affairs (DCA).

In our meeting with Kahn, CALSAGA thanked him and the Governor for signing CALSAGA sponsored legislation, Senate Bill 666 and vowed to work with the Administration on a new bill in 2008 that would give BSIS authority to enforce and develop minimum training standards for proprietary security officers.  CALSAGA also discussed the meal and rest break issue and Kahn reiterated that the Governor's position remained the same - that they would like to see a universal solution that would provide relief for everyone.

In our meeting with Carrie Lopez, she explained that DCA was planning on rolling out a marketing campaign aimed at getting consumers to understand what is behind a license - that having a license means something.  We also discussed our desire to work with them on a follow up bill to Senate Bill 666.  Additionally, CALSAGA expressed interest in working with their department to find ways to attract more worker's into the system.

All said, it was a successful day.

Comments

[William R. Petitt]

If you are truly interested in finding ways to attract more workers into the private security industry then consider livable wages and benefits, training programs, opportunity for advancement and giving the security officer a say. I think what happened in San Francisco and LA was more about representation than wages or benefits. Being represented brought them legitmacy in industry that otherwise provides little to it's workforce.