California
California sets corrections staff standards in three systems: the Commission on Correctional Peace Officer Standards and Training (CPOST) for state prison officers, the Board of State and Community Corrections (BSCC) for local jail and probation staff, and POST certification for custody deputies who are peace officers. Since 2023 the State has opened jail death investigation records, created a BSCC Director of In-Custody Death Review, required jail officers to start CPR without waiting for approval, given the Inspector General authority over staff sexual misconduct cases in prisons, and barred restricted housing for pregnant people in prison.
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- Corrections Ledger
At a glance
- Certifying body
- Three systems. (1) Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) prison officers are peace officers under Penal Code 830.5. CPOST, a body within CDCR with a six-member board split between CDCR management and the California Correctional Peace Officers’ Association, sets their selection and training standards (PC 13600 to 13602). (2) BSCC sets minimum selection and training standards for local corrections and probation officers through its Standards and Training for Corrections (STC) program, which cities and counties may join (PC 6035). Custodial officers are “a public officer, not a peace officer” (PC 831). (3) Sheriff’s custody deputies who are peace officers under PC 830.1 fall under POST certification and decertification (PC 13510.1); 830.5 correctional officers are not in the categories POST certifies. See the California Officer Ledger page for POST.
- Statute
- Penal Code 830.1, 830.5, 831, 831.5 (peace and custodial officer status); 832 (arrest and firearms course); 6024 to 6048 (BSCC: 6030 jail minimum standards, 6031.1 biennial inspections, 6034 Director of In-Custody Death Review, 6035 STC standards, 6048 mental health standards); 13600 to 13603 (CPOST); 3407 and 3408 (pregnant people in custody); 832.7 and 832.10 (officer and jail death-incident records); 6133 (Office of the Inspector General). Regulations: 15 CCR Div. 1, ch. 1, subch. 1 (STC, sections 100 et seq.) and subch. 4 (adult local detention minimum standards, sections 1000 et seq.); 15 CCR Div. 3 (CDCR).
- Minimum standards
- CDCR: CPOST “shall develop, approve, and monitor standards for the selection and training of state correctional peace officer apprentices,” subject to Department of Human Resources approval, and each applicant must be found free of emotional or mental conditions that might adversely affect peace officer duties before training (PC 13601(a)). Peace officers generally must also meet Government Code 1029 to 1031. Local STC entry standards for adult corrections, juvenile corrections, and probation officers: the BSCC written exam, an oral interview, a background investigation, completion of the core course and probation, BSCC vision, hearing, and medical screening, and age 18 before appointment (15 CCR 131).
- Basic training
- CDCR: each cadet completes the CPOST-approved academy before assignment, then at least 160 hours of new employee orientation and on-the-job observation before taking a post; new first-line supervisors get at least 2 weeks of training (PC 13602). Local corrections: the STC Adult Corrections Officer Core Course is “a minimum of 187 hours,” completed in the first year of employment (15 CCR 179); jail custodial staff must complete it within 1 year of assignment (15 CCR 1020), and custodial officers must also complete the PC 832 course within 90 days (PC 831(c)). Probation Officer Core Course: at least 189 hours. Juvenile Corrections Officer Core Course: 168 hours.
- In-service training
- Local STC yearly training (15 CCR 184, effective January 1, 2025): journey adult corrections officers “20 hours + 4 hours mental health”; probation officers 40 hours; juvenile corrections officers 24 hours; supervisors and managers 40 hours (adult corrections supervisors and managers 20 plus 4 mental health). Adult correctional officers must hold current CPR certification. CDCR: CPOST sets advanced, supervisory, and stress-management training standards (PC 13601(d), (e)); CDCR’s yearly in-service hours are set administratively and were not confirmed from an official source.
- Decertification
- Custody deputies who are PC 830.1 peace officers are covered by POST certification and SB 2 decertification, with a public list of suspended and revoked officers; the Officer Ledger page covers both. CDCR correctional officers hold no POST certificate, so there is no state decertification of their status; discipline runs through CDCR and the State Personnel Board. Since January 22, 2026, CDCR’s revised staff misconduct, discipline, and grievance regulations route claims with staff misconduct allegations through a Centralized Screening Team. Since January 1, 2025, the Office of the Inspector General has investigatory authority over all staff sexual misconduct cases involving incarcerated people (PC 6133). Custodial officers (PC 831) are not peace officers and hold no POST certificate.
- Jail standards
- Yes. BSCC “shall establish minimum standards for local correctional facilities,” covering health and sanitation, fire and life safety, security, rehabilitation, recreation, treatment of persons confined, and personnel training, reviewed every 2 years (PC 6030). It inspects each local detention facility at least every 2 years and sends reports to the facility, the local governing body, the grand jury, and the presiding judge (PC 6031.1). Standards are in 15 CCR 1000 et seq. Since July 1, 2024, a BSCC Director of In-Custody Death Review reviews every death in a local detention facility, and the sheriff must answer the recommendations within 90 days (PC 6034).
- Probation and parole officers
- County probation officers and CDCR parole agents are peace officers whose authority extends to conditions of supervision, escapes, transport, and offenses discovered on duty (PC 830.5(a)). Where the county takes part in STC, probation officers complete the 189-hour Probation Officer Core Course in the first year and 40 hours of yearly training (15 CCR 131, 184). CDCR parole agents are trained under CPOST standards.
- Restrictive housing
- No general statutory cap on solitary confinement; bills to create one failed from 2023 to 2026 (see below). By statute, pregnant people in state prison “shall not be placed in solitary confinement or restricted housing units during their pregnancy, if known by the department to be pregnant, or for 12 weeks postpartum,” except for a credible and imminent threat, and then for no more than 5 days (PC 3408, since January 1, 2025). By regulation: CDCR Restricted Housing Unit rules (15 CCR 3335 et seq., with emergency amendments re-adopted effective October 9, 2026) and restricted housing welfare-check rules (effective July 1, 2025). Local jails must have administrative separation policies that limit deprivations to what is necessary, bar harm to health, and require documented, individualized, ongoing review (15 CCR 1053).
- Corrections use of force
- Pregnancy: “An inmate known to be pregnant or in recovery after delivery shall not be restrained by the use of leg irons, waist chains, or handcuffs behind the body,” and may not be restrained by the wrists or ankles in labor, delivery, or recovery unless necessary for safety; restraints must come off when the medical provider says so (PC 3407, state and local facilities; 15 CCR 1058.5 for jails). Pregnant people in prison may not be tased, pepper sprayed, or exposed to other chemical weapons (PC 3408). CDCR’s general use-of-force rules are in 15 CCR 3268 et seq., which were not retrieved from an official copy. The general deadly-force standard for peace officers is PC 835a.
Changes, 2023 to 2026
CDCR Restricted Housing Unit and privilege group rules re-adopted as emergency regulations
“Administrative Restricted Housing Unit (RHU) Term means a duration of time that an incarcerated person can be placed within the RHU for meeting one or more of the qualifiers as outlined in section 3339 and determined by an Institution Classification Committee or the Departmental Review Board.” The rules also revise privilege groups, including temporary Privilege Group C placement for up to 90 days per offense pending adjudication of listed offenses, and tablet restrictions that keep educational and ADA functions working. The original emergency effective date before this re-adoption, and whether permanent adoption is pending, were not confirmed.
For corrections staff: Classification and RHU staff work under temporary rules; check the current text before each committee action.
CDCR recently adopted regulations Emergency re-adoption text
CDCR staff misconduct, employee discipline, and grievance rules revised
CDCR revised its 2020 to 2022 staff misconduct, discipline, and grievance and appeal regulations to address process weaknesses and comply with expanded court orders in Armstrong v. Newsom. Under the adopted text, staff refer claims to the Centralized Screening Team, and “if the claim contains an allegation of staff misconduct, that claim shall be reviewed by the Centralized Screening Team and referred for a routine review or an investigation.” The ADA Coordinator normally reviews alleged violations of the Armstrong Remedial Plan.
For corrections staff: Complaints against you are screened centrally and sent either to routine review or to investigation; read the adopted text for timelines and interview rights.
CDCR recently adopted regulations Adopted regulations, NCR 25-06
State policy of normalization and dynamic security, with training for all correctional staff
CDCR should make prison conditions as close to normal life as possible apart from loss of liberty, keep a mission statement consistent with normalization and “dynamic security” (direct, ongoing, respectful communication between staff and incarcerated people), and facilitate community-based programs. Personal growth is added to the objectives of incarceration. The department “should develop training for all correctional staff on the principles of normalization and dynamic security in order to meaningfully effectuate these principles.”
For corrections staff: Expect CDCR training to treat staff communication with incarcerated people as a security tool; the act says “should,” not “shall.”
Agreements that hide misconduct records are void and disclosable; undercover status weighed in safety redactions
An agency employing a peace officer may not enter into an agreement with the officer that requires the agency to destroy, remove, or conceal a record of a misconduct investigation, to halt an investigation or make particular findings, or to restrict disclosure under PC 832.7 and related sections. Such a provision “is contrary to law and public policy and is void and unenforceable” (PC 13510.9(e)), and the agreement itself becomes a disclosable record under PC 832.7. The ban is written for peace officers, which include CDCR correctional officers and custody deputies; custodial officers under PC 831 are not peace officers. AB 1178 adds that when a court reviews a redaction made for physical safety, it “shall consider whether a particular peace officer is currently operating undercover and their duties demand anonymity.” The Officer Ledger page covers both acts.
For corrections staff: A separation or settlement agreement cannot promise to erase or hide a misconduct investigation.
Amador and Nevada county custody deputies become peace officers for custodial duties
Amador and Nevada counties join the list of counties where a deputy sheriff employed exclusively or initially in custodial assignments is a peace officer whose authority extends statewide only while performing custodial duties or other duties directed during a local emergency. Modoc County was added a year earlier (AB 2974, below).
For corrections staff: Custody deputies in these counties hold limited peace officer status, which brings them under POST certification rules.
Wakiesha’s Law: jails must notify family within 24 hours of an in-custody death
“If an incarcerated person has died, the county or city jail shall notify all people covered by the current medical release of information form and the next of kin form within 24 hours.” This matches the existing rule for state prisons.
For corrections staff: Collect current release and next-of-kin forms at intake, and have a procedure to notify within 24 hours.
CDCR staff may register personal phones inside the perimeter; canine searches of everyone entering
The rules standardize the personal property that employees, contractors, volunteers, and attorneys may bring inside secure perimeters. They “Permit Department employees to register their personal wireless communication devices, such as their personal cellular phones and wearable technology in an online mode capable of communication, within the secure perimeter of institutions,” on new CDCR Form 2056. Anyone entering a facility consents to contraband searches, including by passive-alert drug-detection canines of all or randomly selected entrants.
For corrections staff: You may carry a registered personal phone inside, but you are subject to canine searches like any other entrant.
CDCR intake cells and security and welfare checks in restricted housing
To reduce suicides under court orders, CDCR retrofits some cells to reduce hanging points and improve visibility, reduces single-celling in restricted housing, and will “Establish regular security/welfare checks of restricted housing units by custody staff,” documented on CDCR Forms 3070 and 114.
For corrections staff: Restricted housing officers must make and log scheduled welfare checks on the new forms.
Jail policies must require officers to start CPR without waiting for approval
Facility administrators, with the health authority, must adopt CPR policies under PC 6048(b) that “require correctional officers certified in cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) to begin CPR on a nonresponsive person without obtaining approval from supervisors or medical staff, when it is safe and appropriate to do so.” Officers must have CPR certification on file, summon medical aid immediately, use protective equipment, resume CPR once an imminent danger passes, continue until signs of life return or medical responders take over, and defer to medical staff already present.
For corrections staff: Start CPR at once on a nonresponsive person; do not wait for a supervisor or nurse unless one is already there.
Title 15 adult regulations, effective April 1, 2025 BSCC rulemaking page
Four of the yearly STC training hours must be on mental health; CPR certification required
The yearly requirement for journey adult corrections officers, adult corrections supervisors, and jail managers changes from 24 hours to “20 hours + 4 hours mental health,” carrying out AB 268. Agencies must ensure adult correctional officers hold and document CPR certification, and officers must be trained to begin CPR on a nonresponsive person, when safe, without obtaining approval.
For corrections staff: Plan yearly hours so that four are on mental health, and keep your CPR card current and on file.
STC regulations effective January 1, 2025 BSCC rulemaking page
Inspector General gets investigatory authority over staff sexual misconduct in prisons
The Office of the Inspector General has “investigatory authority over all staff misconduct cases that involve sexual misconduct with an incarcerated person.” It may monitor and investigate such complaints and must report completed investigations to the appropriate hiring authority. Before, it monitored investigations by CDCR’s own Office of Internal Affairs.
For corrections staff: Sexual misconduct allegations against CDCR staff are investigated by an outside office, which reports to the hiring authority for discipline.
No solitary or restricted housing for pregnant people in state prison, or for 12 weeks postpartum
“Incarcerated pregnant persons shall not be placed in solitary confinement or restricted housing units during their pregnancy, if known by the department to be pregnant, or for 12 weeks postpartum.” The exception is a credible and imminent safety or security threat, and then for no more than 5 days, without unenrolling the person from work or programs. CDCR must also provide free clean bottled water and high-calorie meals, and the deadline to give written reasons for denying a support person or community program falls from 15 working days to 5.
For corrections staff: Placing a pregnant or postpartum person in restricted housing needs a documented imminent threat and is capped at 5 days.
Modoc County custody deputies become peace officers for custodial duties
Modoc County joins the counties where a deputy sheriff employed exclusively or initially in custodial assignments is a peace officer whose authority extends statewide only while performing custodial duties or other duties directed during a local emergency.
For corrections staff: Modoc custody deputies hold limited peace officer status and fall under POST certification rules.
Former employers may disclose that a peace or custodial officer was fired for cause
The confidentiality of peace officer and custodial officer personnel records does not stop a former employer from speaking. “Notwithstanding subdivision (a) or any other law, an agency that formerly employed a peace officer or custodial officer may, without receiving a request for disclosure, disclose to the public the termination for cause of that officer by that agency for any disclosable incident.” Disclosable incidents are those listed in PC 832.7(b)(1), such as shootings, serious force, sexual assault, and dishonesty.
For corrections staff: If a jail or prison fires you for cause over a disclosable incident, it may announce the firing publicly.
Jail death investigation records made public; BSCC Director of In-Custody Death Review
Any record of a local detention facility’s investigation “involving a death incident maintained by a local detention facility shall not be confidential and shall be made available for public inspection” under the Public Records Act, notwithstanding PC 832.7. “Custodial officer” for this purpose includes deputies, correctional officers, and equivalent sworn or civilian ranks who supervise detained people. A governor-appointed Director of In-Custody Death Review within BSCC reviews every jail death investigation and recommends changes to policy, staffing, and health services; the sheriff must say within 90 days which recommendations will be carried out. Safe conditions for staff and incarcerated people are added to BSCC’s mission.
For corrections staff: Death investigation files, including your statements and any discipline imposed, can become public records.
BSCC adds health members and must set jail mental health standards, a CPR duty, and safety-check audits
A licensed health care provider and a licensed mental or behavioral health provider join the BSCC board. BSCC must adopt jail mental health standards that meet or exceed those of the National Commission on Correctional Health Care, including detailed safety checks that need not wake sleeping people, random supervisor audits of safety checks using logs and video, at least 4 hours of yearly mental and behavioral health in-service training, and qualified mental health screening at intake. “Correctional officers shall be certified in cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) and shall be required, when safe and appropriate to do so, to begin CPR on a nonresponsive person without obtaining approval from supervisors or medical staff.”
For corrections staff: Jail officers must be CPR-certified, act without waiting for permission, and expect audits of their safety checks.
Enacted, not yet in force, pending, and bills that did not pass
- CDCR body cameras, sexual violence policy, and staff screening (SB 337, Stats. 2026, ch. 647): approved September 27, 2026; effective January 1, 2027. CDCR must adopt body-camera policies, with minimum activation time per shift and activation during interactions with incarcerated people, by July 1, 2027, and search protocols by January 1, 2028. It requires a Prison Sexual Violence Elimination policy and conflict-of-interest disclosure and recusal for Internal Affairs investigators, and bars appointing staff or contractors who would have contact with incarcerated people if they have substantiated sexual abuse allegations or listed convictions. CDCR must either run criminal background checks every 5 years on employees and contractors who may have contact with incarcerated people, or use a system that routinely captures that information. The act amends PC 289.6.
- Appointed jail administrator (AB 2257, Stats. 2026, ch. 929): approved September 30, 2026; effective January 1, 2027. A board of supervisors may create a jail administrator position; the sheriff nominates and the board confirms after a public hearing, and the sheriff keeps specified authority, including removal.
- Medical care for people under officer control (AB 2318, Stats. 2026, ch. 747): approved September 29, 2026; effective January 1, 2027. A law enforcement officer may not deny, delay, or obstruct medical evaluation or treatment of a person under law enforcement control, other than in CDCR custody, when it is safe and a medical professional is present and willing; denials must be documented within 72 hours.
- Independent review of in-custody deaths (AB 1108, Stats. 2025, ch. 389): approved October 6, 2025. From January 1, 2027, in counties with a combined sheriff-coroner, in-custody deaths must be examined by an independent coroner, medical examiner, or qualified contracted provider.
- Fresno and San Joaquin custody deputies (AB 2004, Stats. 2026, ch. 206): approved September 14, 2026; effective January 1, 2027. Both counties join the PC 830.1 list of counties whose custody-assigned deputies are peace officers for custodial duties.
Proposed: BSCC published a Notice of Proposed Action on STC regulations on September 18, 2026, with written comments accepted through November 2, 2026. It would remove cost-related criteria from STC course certification, applications, and program evaluation (15 CCR 231, 232, 320); BSCC states the changes “do not change the intent or core structure” of the training standards. Not enacted: AB 280 (2023 to 2024, segregated confinement), SB 733 (2023 to 2024, solitary confinement), and AB 701 (2025 to 2026, solitary confinement).
Checked and unchanged
- PC 6034 (in-custody death review), as amended by SB 157 (Stats. 2025, ch. 111, effective September 17, 2025): the Director still reviews death-incident investigations, and the sheriff must still respond within 90 days. Other changes made by SB 157 were not compared.
- Bill and code text was read from the Legislature’s official data files, because leginfo.legislature.ca.gov pages refused direct requests; the source links on this page are the standard leginfo pages for the same documents.
- Not reviewed: CDCR academy length and yearly in-service hours, CDCR use-of-force rules (15 CCR 3268 et seq.), and whether probation officers in counties that take part in POST hold POST certification.
Bills in the legislature
Bills in the current session whose title concerns corrections officers, jails, probation and parole, and conditions of confinement, found automatically in LegiScan's copy of the legislature's records and refreshed daily (last on October 21, 2026). This list is not reviewed by an editor and is not a summary of the bills; each links to the legislature's own page, which controls. Bills that become law are added to the dated entries above once checked.
- Failed
AB701: Corrections: solitary confinement.
Last action February 2, 2026: From committee: Filed with the Chief Clerk pursuant to Joint Rule 56.. 2025-2026 Regular Session.
- Passed one chamber
SB498: Incarcerated persons: communications.
Last action August 13, 2026: August 13 hearing: Held in committee and under submission.. 2025-2026 Regular Session.
- Failed
SB850: Prisons.
Last action February 2, 2026: Returned to Secretary of Senate pursuant to Joint Rule 56.. 2025-2026 Regular Session.
- Introduced
AB2419: Probation officers: body-worn cameras: County of Los Angeles.
Last action May 14, 2026: In committee: Held under submission.. 2025-2026 Regular Session.
- Enacted
AB2434: Inmates: visitation.
Last action September 30, 2026: Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 941, Statutes of 2026.. 2025-2026 Regular Session.
- Failed
AB2438: Imprisonment.
Last action May 4, 2026: From committee: Without further action pursuant to Joint Rule 62(a).. 2025-2026 Regular Session.
- Passed one chamber
ACR228: The Parole Agent Joshua L. Byrd Memorial Highway.
Last action August 18, 2026: In Senate. To Com. on RLS.. 2025-2026 Regular Session.
The law, section by section
Every section of the statutes and rules this page relies on that could be read from an official source, 252 in all, each linked to the official text. Headings are copied from the official tables of contents, checked October 21, 2026.
California Penal Code, Part 3, Title 7, Chapter 5: Board of State and Community Corrections (jail standards, standards and training for local corrections and probation officers)Statute · 40 sections
Official text current through California Legislative Counsel bulk data pubinfo_2025.zip (law tables last updated 2026-10-02), downloaded 2026-10-20. California code sections have no official headings, so "heading" is null. leginfo.legislature.ca.gov sits behind a Cloudflare browser challenge, so the TOC was read from the Legislative Counsel bulk download (official, downloads.leginfo.legislature.ca.gov) tables LAW_TOC_TBL and LAW_TOC_SECTIONS_TBL; section links point to leginfo. The official chapter heading still reads "The Corrections Standards Authority". Cal. Penal Code 6024 to 6048.5, official text
ARTICLE 1. General Provisions
- 6024
- 6025
- 6025.1
- 6025.5
- 6025.6
- 6026
- 6027
- 6028
- 6028.1
- 6028.2
- 6028.3
- 6028.4
- 6029
- 6029.1
- 6029.5
- 6030
- 6031
- 6031.1
- 6031.2
- 6031.3
- 6031.4
- 6031.5
- 6031.6
- 6032
- 6033
- 6034
ARTICLE 2. Standards and Training of Local Corrections and Probation Officers
ARTICLE 3. Corrections Training Fund
ARTICLE 4. Mentally Ill Offender Crime Reduction Grants
ARTICLE 5. Second Chance Program
ARTICLE 7. Standards for Mental Health Care in Local Correctional Facilities
California Penal Code, Part 4, Title 4.5: Commission on Correctional Peace Officer Standards and TrainingStatute · 5 sections
Official text current through California Legislative Counsel bulk data pubinfo_2025.zip (law tables last updated 2026-10-02), downloaded 2026-10-20. California code sections have no official headings, so "heading" is null. leginfo.legislature.ca.gov sits behind a Cloudflare browser challenge, so the TOC was read from the Legislative Counsel bulk download (official, downloads.leginfo.legislature.ca.gov) tables LAW_TOC_TBL and LAW_TOC_SECTIONS_TBL; section links point to leginfo. Cal. Penal Code 13600 to 13603, official text
TITLE 4.5. COMMISSION ON CORRECTIONAL PEACE OFFICER STANDARDS AND TRAINING
California Penal Code, other cited sections: peace and custodial officer status, officer records, pregnant people in custody, Office of the Inspector GeneralStatute · 10 sections
Official text current through California Legislative Counsel bulk data pubinfo_2025.zip (law tables last updated 2026-10-02), downloaded 2026-10-20. California code sections have no official headings, so "heading" is null. leginfo.legislature.ca.gov sits behind a Cloudflare browser challenge, so the TOC was read from the Legislative Counsel bulk download (official, downloads.leginfo.legislature.ca.gov) tables LAW_TOC_TBL and LAW_TOC_SECTIONS_TBL; section links point to leginfo. Partial lists: only the sections the tracker page cites from each chapter. Cal. Penal Code 830.1, 830.5, 831, 831.5, 832, 832.7, 832.10, 3407, 3408, 6133, official text
Part 2, Title 3, CHAPTER 4.5. Peace Officers
Part 3, Title 2, CHAPTER 3. Prisoners
Part 3, Title 7, CHAPTER 8.2. Office of the Inspector General
California Code of Regulations, Title 15, Division 1, Chapter 1, Subchapter 1: Standards and Training of Local Corrections and Probation OfficersRules · 70 sections
Official text current through BSCC copy headed "STC Title 15 Regulations Effective January 1, 2025", read 2026-10-21. The official CCR host (govt.westlaw.com/calregs) returns HTTP 403 to curl; section list and headings taken from the table of contents of the Board of State and Community Corrections' posted copy of the subchapter, which is also the body link (sections link to it). Final periods and dot leaders dropped from headings. 15 CCR 100 to 358, official text
Article 1. General Provisions
- 15 CCR 100 Introduction
- 15 CCR 101 Objectives
- 15 CCR 102 Definitions
- 15 CCR 103 Technical Assistance and Consultation
- 15 CCR 104 Waiver
- 15 CCR 106 Severability
Article 2. Minimum Standards for Selection
- 15 CCR 130 Purpose of Article
- 15 CCR 131 Minimum Selection Standards
- 15 CCR 132 Counties and Cities with Alternate Selection Standards
- 15 CCR 133 Effective Term of Selection Standards
Article 3. Minimum Standards for Training
- 15 CCR 169 Purpose of Article
- 15 CCR 171 Training Courses
- 15 CCR 173 Probation Officer Core Course
- 15 CCR 173.1 Juvenile Corrections Officer to Probation Officer Transfer Academy
- 15 CCR 173.2 Adult Corrections Officer to Probation Officer Transfer Academy
- 15 CCR 176 Juvenile Corrections Officer Core Course
- 15 CCR 176.1 Probation Officer to Juvenile Corrections Officer Transfer Academy
- 15 CCR 176.2 Adult Corrections Officer to Juvenile Corrections Officer Transfer Academy
- 15 CCR 179 Adult Corrections Officer Core Course
- 15 CCR 179.1 Probation Officer to Adult Corrections Officer Transfer Academy
- 15 CCR 179.2 Juvenile Corrections Officer to Adult Corrections Officer Transfer Academy
- 15 CCR 180 Adult Corrections Officer Supplemental Core Course
- 15 CCR 181 Supervisor Core Course
- 15 CCR 182 Manager/Administrator Core Course
- 15 CCR 184 Annual Required Training
- 15 CCR 185 Deadline for Compliance
Article 5. Certification of Training Courses
- 15 CCR 230 Purpose
- 15 CCR 231 Certification of Courses
- 15 CCR 232 Application for Certification of Course
- 15 CCR 233 Regular Certification and Revocation
- 15 CCR 233.5 Provisional Certification
- 15 CCR 234 Attendance Determined by Counties and Cities
- 15 CCR 235 Monitoring of Courses
Article 6. Certificates of Completion of Training
- 15 CCR 260 Purpose of Article
- 15 CCR 261 Certificates of Completion of Training
- 15 CCR 262 Specialized Course Completion Certificates
- 15 CCR 263 Revocation of Certificate
Article 7. Administration of Funds
- 15 CCR 290 Purpose of Article
- 15 CCR 291 Adherence to Standards
- 15 CCR 292 Exclusion of "POST" Subvented Courses
- 15 CCR 293 Use of Funds for Matching Grant Funding
- 15 CCR 295 Application
- 15 CCR 296 Date for Submission of Application
- 15 CCR 297 Approval of Application
- 15 CCR 298 Calculation of Available Funds
- 15 CCR 299 Allocation and Use of Funds Based on Annual Training Plan
- 15 CCR 300 Quarterly Disbursement of Funds
- 15 CCR 301 Separate Account in County or City
- 15 CCR 302 Reallocation of Funds
- 15 CCR 302.5 Special Allocation of Funds
- 15 CCR 303 Quarterly Report
- 15 CCR 304 Modification of Annual Training Plan
- 15 CCR 305 Unused Funds
- 15 CCR 306 Annual Financial Statement
- 15 CCR 307 Maintenance of Accounting Records
- 15 CCR 308 County/City Withdrawal from Program
Article 8. Monitoring of Program Administration and Evaluation
- 15 CCR 315 Purpose of Article
- 15 CCR 317 Records
- 15 CCR 318 Monitoring of Program
- 15 CCR 319 Auditing of Records
- 15 CCR 320 Program Evaluation
Article 9. Appeal Procedures
- 15 CCR 350 Purpose of Article
- 15 CCR 351 Definitions
- 15 CCR 352 Levels of Appeal
- 15 CCR 353 Appeal to the Executive Officer
- 15 CCR 354 Executive Officer Appeal Procedures
- 15 CCR 355 Executive Officer's Decision
- 15 CCR 356 Request for Appeal Hearing by Board
- 15 CCR 357 Board Hearing Procedures
- 15 CCR 358 Board of State and Community Corrections Decision
California Code of Regulations, Title 15, Division 1, Chapter 1, Subchapter 4: Minimum Standards for Local Detention FacilitiesRules · 127 sections
Official text current through BSCC copy headed "Title 15 Minimum Standards For Local Detention Facilities ... Effective April 1, 2025", read 2026-10-21. The official CCR host (govt.westlaw.com/calregs) returns HTTP 403 to curl; section list and headings taken from the table of contents of the Board of State and Community Corrections' posted copy of the subchapter, which is also the body link (sections link to it). Final periods and dot leaders dropped from headings. 15 CCR 1004 to 1280, official text
Article 1. General Instructions
- 15 CCR 1004 Severability
- 15 CCR 1005 Other Standards and Requirements
- 15 CCR 1006 Definitions
- 15 CCR 1007 Pilot Projects
- 15 CCR 1008 Alternate Means of Compliance
Article 2. Inspection and Application of Standards
- 15 CCR 1010 Applicability of Standards
- 15 CCR 1012 Emergency Suspensions of Standards or Requirements
- 15 CCR 1013 Criminal History Information
- 15 CCR 1016 Contracts for Local Detention Facilities
- 15 CCR 1018 Local Detention Facility Appeal Process
Article 3. Training, Personnel and Management
- 15 CCR 1020 Corrections Officer Core Course
- 15 CCR 1021 Jail Supervisory Training
- 15 CCR 1023 Jail Management Training
- 15 CCR 1024 Court Holding and Temporary Holding Facility Training
- 15 CCR 1025 Continuing Professional Training
- 15 CCR 1027 Number of Personnel
- 15 CCR 1027.5 Safety Checks
- 15 CCR 1028 Fire and Life Safety Staff
- 15 CCR 1029 Policy and Procedures Manual
- 15 CCR 1030 Suicide Prevention Program
- 15 CCR 1032 Fire Suppression Preplanning
Article 4. Records and Public Information
- 15 CCR 1040 Population Accounting
- 15 CCR 1041 Records
- 15 CCR 1044 Incident Reports
- 15 CCR 1045 Public Information Plan
- 15 CCR 1046 Death in Custody
- 15 CCR 1047 Serious Illness or Injury of a Minor in an Adult Detention Facility
Article 5. Classification And Separation
- 15 CCR 1050 Classification Plan
- 15 CCR 1051 Communicable Diseases
- 15 CCR 1052 Behavioral Crisis Identification
- 15 CCR 1053 Administrative Separation
- 15 CCR 1054 Administrative Removal-Type IV Facility
- 15 CCR 1055 Use of Safety Cell
- 15 CCR 1056 Use of Sobering Cell
- 15 CCR 1057 Developmental Disabilities
- 15 CCR 1058 Use of Restraint Devices
- 15 CCR 1058.5 Restraints and Pregnant Persons
- 15 CCR 1059 DNA Collection, Use of Force
Article 6. Programs and Services
- 15 CCR 1061 Education Plan
- 15 CCR 1062 Visiting
- 15 CCR 1063 Correspondence
- 15 CCR 1064 Library Service
- 15 CCR 1065 Exercise and Out of Cell Time
- 15 CCR 1066 Books, Newspapers, Periodicals, and Writings
- 15 CCR 1067 Access to Telephone
- 15 CCR 1068 Access to the Courts and Counsel
- 15 CCR 1069 Orientation
- 15 CCR 1070 Individual/Family Service Programs
- 15 CCR 1071 Voting
- 15 CCR 1072 Religious Observances
- 15 CCR 1073 Grievance Procedure
Article 7. Discipline
- 15 CCR 1080 Rules and Disciplinary Actions
- 15 CCR 1081 Plan for Discipline of Incarcerated Persons
- 15 CCR 1082 Forms of Discipline
- 15 CCR 1083 Limitations on Disciplinary Actions
- 15 CCR 1084 Disciplinary Records
Article 8. Minors in Jails
- 15 CCR 1100 Purpose
- 15 CCR 1101 Restrictions on Contact with Incarcerated Adults
- 15 CCR 1102 Classification
- 15 CCR 1103 Release Procedures
- 15 CCR 1104 Supervision of Minors
- 15 CCR 1105 Recreation Programs
- 15 CCR 1106 Disciplinary Procedures
- 15 CCR 1120 Education Program for Minors in Jails
- 15 CCR 1121 Health Education for Minors in Jails
- 15 CCR 1122 Reproductive Information and Services for Minors in Jails
- 15 CCR 1122.5 Pregnant Minors
- 15 CCR 1123 Health Appraisals/Medical Examinations for Minors in Jails
- 15 CCR 1124 Prostheses and Orthopedic Devices for Minors in Jails
- 15 CCR 1125 Psychotropic Medications for Minors in Jail
Article 9. Minors in Temporary Custody in a Law Enforcement Facility
- 15 CCR 1140 Purpose
- 15 CCR 1141 Minors Arrested for Law Violations
- 15 CCR 1142 Written Policies and Procedures
- 15 CCR 1143 Care of Minors in Temporary Custody
- 15 CCR 1144 Contact Between Minors and Incarcerated Adults
- 15 CCR 1145 Decision on Secure Custody
- 15 CCR 1146 Conditions of Secure Custody
- 15 CCR 1147 Supervision of Minors in Secure Custody Inside a Locked Enclosure
- 15 CCR 1148 Supervision of Minors in Secure Custody Outside of a Locked Enclosure
- 15 CCR 1149 Criteria for Non-Secure Custody
- 15 CCR 1150 Supervision of Minors in Non-Secure Custody
- 15 CCR 1151 Minors Under the Influence of Any Intoxicating Substance in Secure or Non- Secure Custody
Article 10. Minors in Court Holding Facilities
- 15 CCR 1160 Purpose
- 15 CCR 1161 Conditions of Detention
- 15 CCR 1162 Supervision of Minors
- 15 CCR 1163 Classification
Article 11. Medical/Mental Health Services
- 15 CCR 1200 Responsibility for Health Care Services
- 15 CCR 1202 Health Service Audits
- 15 CCR 1203 Health Care Staff Qualifications
- 15 CCR 1204 Health Care Staff Procedure
- 15 CCR 1205 Health Care Records
- 15 CCR 1206 Health Care Procedures Manual
- 15 CCR 1206.5 Management of Communicable Diseases in a Custody Setting
- 15 CCR 1207 Medical Receiving Screening
- 15 CCR 1207.5 Special Behavioral Health Assessment
- 15 CCR 1208 Access to Treatment
- 15 CCR 1208.5 Health Care Maintenance
- 15 CCR 1209 Mental Health Services and Transfer to Treatment Facility
- 15 CCR 1210 Individualized Treatment Plans
- 15 CCR 1211 Sick Call
- 15 CCR 1212 Vermin Control
- 15 CCR 1213 Detoxification Treatment
- 15 CCR 1214 Informed Consent
- 15 CCR 1215 Dental Care
- 15 CCR 1216 Pharmaceutical Management
- 15 CCR 1217 Psychotropic Medications
- 15 CCR 1220 First Aid Kit(s)
- 15 CCR 1230 Food Handlers
Article 12. Food
- 15 CCR 1240 Frequency of Serving
- 15 CCR 1241 Minimum Diet
- 15 CCR 1242 Menus
- 15 CCR 1243 Food Service Plan
- 15 CCR 1245 Kitchen Facilities, Sanitation, and Food Storage
- 15 CCR 1246 Food Serving and Supervision
- 15 CCR 1248 Medical Diets
Article 13. Clothing and Personal Hygiene
- 15 CCR 1260 Standard Institutional Clothing
- 15 CCR 1261 Special Clothing
- 15 CCR 1262 Clothing Exchange
- 15 CCR 1263 Clothing Supply
- 15 CCR 1264 Control of Vermin in Personal Clothing
- 15 CCR 1265 Issue of Personal Care Items
- 15 CCR 1266 Showering
- 15 CCR 1267 Hair Care Services
Article 14. Bedding and Linen
- 15 CCR 1270 Standard Bedding and Linen Issue
- 15 CCR 1271 Bedding and Linen Exchange
- 15 CCR 1272 Mattresses
Article 15. Facility Sanitation and Safety
- 15 CCR 1280 Facility Sanitation, Safety, and Maintenance
Not listed: 15 CCR Division 3 (CDCR rules, including use of force and restrictive housing). The official CCR host returns HTTP 403 to curl, and CDCR's regulations page posts only rulemaking files, not a compiled Division 3. Other provisions the page cites but not listed here: Penal Code 13510.9 and 4032.5 (linked in the page's dated entries).
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Last updated October 21, 2026Source: United States Council for Law & InvestigationCite as: United States Council for Law & Investigation, “California corrections law: Corrections Ledger,” uscli.org/corrections-tracker/california (last updated October 21, 2026). Text licensed CC BY 4.0.