California State Senate Bill Aims To Protect Employees From Workplace Violence

KCAL News, CBS Los Angeles

September 7, 2023

A bill aimed at protecting workers at their jobs is just one vote away from passing through the California State Senate.

Motivated by the 2021 mass shooting that killed nine employees at San Jose's Valley Transportation Authority, State Senator Dave Cortese sponsored this bill with the hope that it would better prepare businesses against any type of workplace violence.

"Even though VTA was a government entity, they didn't have a plan for how to get police officers into the building," he said. "If there was a shooter, they had never done drills like that before, they didn't have an exit strategy for the employees, so people were just kind of trying to make up things as they went along."

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