A California bill to ban the use of police dogs for arrests and crowd control advanced in a state Assembly committee March 21.
Public Safety Committee members voted along party lines to pass Assembly Bill 742, introduced by Assemblymen Corey Jackson (D-Perris) and Ash Kalra (D-San Jose). Six Democrats voted in favor while the two Republican Assemblymen on the committee—Juan Alanis, of Modesto, and Tom Lackey, of Palmdale—voted against it.
