Does UCLA Have a Plan? - Part 2

Back on June 25th, we noted that a new law, SB 553, was coming into effect July 1 regarding violence in the workplace.* The law was a response to a workplace shooting at a public transit agency. It covers both public and private employers. 

Much of the law deals with employers and unions obtaining restraining orders against individuals who may threaten other individuals at the workplace. Beyond that approach, however, the law requires employers to have a plan to avert or deal with workplace violence as of July 1. There are supposed to be training programs for employees regarding such violence, which is not confined to shooting incidents. 

Yours truly sees no exemption for UC contained in the new law and notes that - in particular - the UCLA campus is also a workplace. He notes further that we have seen violence on various UC campuses, especially at UCLA, in recent months. What he hasn't seen so far is a plan or training program.

The text of SB 553 can be found at:

https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB553.

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*https://uclafacultyassociation.blogspot.com/2024/06/does-ucla-have-plan.html. The prior post includes a link to a video from UCLA regarding a mass shooting event. However, as noted, not all workplace violence involves such events. Most incidents do not.