{"id":479555,"date":"2026-09-29T17:44:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-29T17:44:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/479555\/"},"modified":"2026-09-29T17:44:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-29T17:44:09","slug":"new-california-law-bans-officers-from-using-gloves-that-deliver-electric-shocks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/479555\/","title":{"rendered":"New California law bans officers from using gloves that deliver electric shocks"},"content":{"rendered":"

SACRAMENTO \u2014 California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a law Tuesday banning local, state and federal law enforcement officers from using gloves<\/a> that can deliver painful electric shocks to people.<\/p>\n

The ban on shock gloves will take effect next year and remain in place until 2030. It comes weeks after U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement moved to equip its officers with the gloves, which are designed to gain compliance from combative individuals. Last month, the agency awarded a nearly $17 million contract<\/a> to buy 6,000 pairs.<\/p>\n

\u201cTrump has put his political interests above the health, safety and livelihood of American families,\u201d Newsom said in a statement. \u201cCalifornia is taking action to strengthen transparency, accountability, and oversight around immigration enforcement in our state.\u201d<\/p>\n

The law is the latest example of how Democratic-led states have been pushing back against President Donald Trump\u2019s immigration enforcement efforts since he took office last year. In California, lawmakers passed at least two dozen bills this year seeking to fortify immigrants\u2019 rights, restrict cooperation with federal immigration agents and tighten regulations on immigrant detention facilities, among other things.<\/p>\n

Nationwide, 17 states with Democratic-led legislatures have passed a total of more than 100 pro-immigrant bills this year, according to an Associated Press analysis using the bill tracking software Plural. The most common purpose is to limit cooperation with federal immigration enforcement agents.<\/p>\n

Democratic California Assemblymember LaShae Sharp-Collins said she introduced the shock-gloves legislation to \u201cput a pause\u201d on law enforcement\u2019s use of the devices while the state examines their potential risks. The law requires the state\u2019s Justice Department to study their safety and report to lawmakers by 2029.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s a lot of unrest and a lot of uncertainty,\u201d she said in an interview. \u201cA lot of people are scared.\u201d<\/p>\n

The law will again test the state\u2019s authority to restrict federal agents amid the Trump administration\u2019s immigration crackdown. A federal judge earlier this year blocked<\/a> the state\u2019s first-in-the-nation law<\/a> barring federal officers from wearing face coverings, deeming it too selective because it applied to local and federal law enforcement but exempted state officers.<\/p>\n

Lawmakers passed a new bill this year to make the ban apply to all officers. Newsom signed that legislation.<\/p>\n

Kevin Johnson, a professor emeritus at UC Davis\u2019 School of Law, said courts are likely to ultimately rule that the state cannot bar federal officers from wearing shock gloves or face coverings. The laws are well-intentioned, he said, but likely conflict with the Supremacy Clause of the U.S. Constitution, which generally sets federal law as supreme over conflicting state law.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe state has very limited, if any, powers in dictating to the federal government how its officers are armed,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

California law enforcement groups broadly opposed the ban.<\/p>\n

Sacramento Sheriff Jim Cooper, a Democrat and former state lawmaker, said banning shock gloves \u201creally makes no sense\u201d because they are among the non-lethal tools officers can use if necessary.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen the federal government does something, the state Legislature wants to ban it,\u201d he said at a news conference. \u201cThey\u2019re making our job harder.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sharp-Collins said ICE\u2019s plan to use shock gloves was the catalyst for the ban. But she cited their use by other officers, including a case in which a Kentucky family alleges a man died after being tased and shocked with the gloves dozens of times while in law enforcement custody in 2024.<\/p>\n

State Sen. Scott Wiener, a San Francisco Democrat who wrote last year\u2019s mask ban, also authored this year\u2019s measure to expand it to state officers.<\/p>\n

\u201cCalifornia must use every available tool to stand up for our communities under attack from ICE\u2019s secret police terror campaign,\u201d he said in a statement after it passed the Legislature.<\/p>\n

Associated Press writer David A. Lieb contributed to this report from Jefferson City, Missouri.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SACRAMENTO \u2014 California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a law Tuesday banning local, state and federal law enforcement officers…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":479556,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[7,457,2871,14,13,1492,74,76,75,575],"class_list":["post-479555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-california","tag-gavin-newsom","tag-ice","tag-immigration","tag-politics","tag-public-safety","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news","tag-u-s-immigration-and-customs-enforcement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=479555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479555\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/479556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=479555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=479555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=479555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}