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Dear Sheriff Bianco; I’ve been quite repelled by the asinine assembly bill to ban the use of police canines by California police agencies for the arrest and apprehension of criminal suspects, and for crowd control. I am certain that you find this bill quite disturbing as well. If this utterly stupid and shortsighted Assembly Bill 742 is indeed passed, then I suggest that as Sheriff you merely trump this bill and raise the political ante by reaching for a new law enforcement tool. I would hope that you would seriously consider procuring and deploying robotic dogs as possible replacements for...

Times are tough right now and good jobs are hard to come by for many Californians. Rather than considering bad legislation like Assembly Bill 742 that stifles private investment, business and employment, California State Legislators should be doing everything they can to enact policies that create jobs and encourage new, private investment in our economy. Several influential labor groups have joined business and local government to urge legislators to reject this special interest bill, was introduced at the last minute solely to kill an important new aggregate production project in Riverside County on behalf of the wealthy and politically influential...