<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="first column" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif, Georgia; font-size: 16px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); width: 357.25px; float: left;"><div class="div_padding0" style="margin: 0px; padding: 3px;"><div style="margin: 0px 15px 0px 0px; padding: 0px 10px; font-size: 1.6em; color: rgb(154, 61, 61); line-height: 1.1em;" class=""><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: normal; font-weight: bold;" class="">Gun restraining orders soon available</span></div><p class="abody" style="margin: 10px 15px 0px 0px; padding: 0px 10px; font-size: 1em; line-height: normal;"><span class="Fid_9" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: normal;">Employers, schools can seek to take weapons from dangerous people</span></p><div style="margin: 0px 15px 0px 0px; padding: 5px 5px 5px 10px;" class=""><span class="Fid_10" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: normal;">By</span></div><div style="margin: 0px 15px 0px 0px; padding: 5px 5px 5px 10px;" class=""><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: normal; font-weight: bold;" class="">BRYAN ANDERSON</span></div><p class="abody" style="margin: 10px 15px 0px 0px; padding: 0px 10px; font-size: 1em; line-height: normal;"><span class="Fid_12" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: normal;">SACRAMENTO BEE</span></p><p class="abody" style="margin: 10px 15px 0px 0px; padding: 0px 10px; font-size: 1em; line-height: normal;"><span class="Fid_3" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: normal;">Californians will soon be able to ask courts to take guns away from co-workers and students they believe to be dangerous, under a new law Gov. Gavin Newsom signed on Friday.</span></p><p class="abody" style="margin: 10px 15px 0px 0px; padding: 0px 10px; font-size: 1em; line-height: normal;"><span class="Fid_3" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: normal;">Law enforcement agencies and immediate family members today are the only people who can file a petition to halt another person’s access to guns. Assembly Bill 61 will expand the use of gun violence restraining orders.</span></p></div></div><div class=" column" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif, Georgia; font-size: 16px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); width: 357.25px; float: left;"><div class="split div_padding0" style="margin: 0px; padding: 3px;"><p class="abody" style="margin: 10px 15px 0px 0px; padding: 0px 10px; font-size: 1em; line-height: normal;"><span class="Fid_3" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: normal;">Starting on Sept. 1, 2020, schools and employers can also initiate requests.</span></p><p class="abody" style="margin: 10px 15px 0px 0px; padding: 0px 10px; font-size: 1em; line-height: normal;"><span class="Fid_3" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: normal;">California has seen three dozen mass shootings thus far into</span><span class="Fid_3" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: normal;"> 2019, according to data from the Gun Violence Archive, a nonprofit organization tracking the issue. More than 12,000 people died in the state from firearms between 2014 and 2017, data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows.</span></p><p class="abody" style="margin: 10px 15px 0px 0px; padding: 0px 10px; font-size: 1em; line-height: normal;"><span class="Fid_3" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: normal;">Assemblyman Phil Ting, D-San Francisco, has tried to get his proposal signed into law for the last several years. He said 2020 could mark a turning point by allowing the state to intervene more often before residents experience gun-related deaths.</span></p><p class="abody" style="margin: 10px 15px 0px 0px; padding: 0px 10px; font-size: 1em; line-height: normal;"><span class="Fid_3" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: normal;">“It’s going to be very significant,” Ting said. “But even if it’s just making a dent, those are lives being saved. If we only save one life or 10 lives, those are people absolutely worth saving. We believe everyone needs to be much more proactive.”</span></p><p class="abody" style="margin: 10px 15px 0px 0px; padding: 0px 10px; font-size: 1em; line-height: normal;"><span class="Fid_3" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: normal;">But it remains unclear how effective the new law will be in</span><span class="Fid_3" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: normal;"> preventing deaths, given that the gun violence restraining orders have not been widely used across the state since courts started issuing them in 2016.</span></p></div></div><div class=" column" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif, Georgia; font-size: 16px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); width: 357.25px; float: left;"><div class="split div_padding0" style="margin: 0px; padding: 3px;"><p class="abody" style="margin: 10px 15px 0px 0px; padding: 0px 10px; font-size: 1em; line-height: normal;"><span class="Fid_3" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: normal;">In Ting’s district, San Francisco County secured one restraining order between 2016 and 2018, according to data from the California Department of Justice.</span><span class="Fid_3" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: normal;"> Sacramento County has gotten 16 petitions approved in court during that same time period, which is more than Fresno, Stanislaus and San Luis Obispo counties, combined. San Luis Obispo obtained four gun violence restraining orders, while Fresno got two. Stanislaus is one of 20 California counties that have yet to secure a restraining order as of Jan. 1, 2019.</span></p><p class="abody" style="margin: 10px 15px 0px 0px; padding: 0px 10px; font-size: 1em; line-height: normal;"><span class="Fid_3" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: normal;">San Diego has obtained 203 GVROs, which accounts for nearly one-third of the 614 petitions courts have approved across the state from 2016 to 2018. In the vast majority of cases — 97 percent — California police departments secure the restraining order, not family members.</span></p><p class="abody" style="margin: 10px 15px 0px 0px; padding: 0px 10px; font-size: 1em; line-height: normal;"><span class="Fid_3" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: normal;">Ting hopes his bill will help educate the public and encourage them to speak up if they believe someone should have their guns taken away</span></p></div></div><div class=" last column" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif, Georgia; font-size: 16px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); width: 357.25px; float: left;"><div class="split div_padding0" style="margin: 0px; padding: 3px;"><div id="imgArt0" class="dontsplit imgArt" style="margin: 15px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; display: inline-block; position: relative; text-align: center; max-width: 90%;"><img src="http://us5lb-cdn.newsmemory.com/eebrowser/ipad/html5.check.2530/ajax-request.php?val=Image_1.jpg&action=loadImage&type=Image&pSetup=santarosapressdemocrat_bb&issue=20191012&crc=pd05a101219_120000.pdf.0&edition=Santa%20Rosa%20Press%20Democrat&mtime=084440&paperImage=santarosapressdemocrat" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; cursor: pointer; position: relative; max-width: 90%;" class=""><img id="imgchild_0" class="imgchild" src="http://santarosapressdemocrat.ca.newsmemory.com/eebrowser/ipad/html5.check.2530/code/icons/usa/zoom_in.png" style="margin: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-left: 0px; cursor: pointer; border-top-left-radius: 20px; border-top-right-radius: 20px; border-bottom-right-radius: 20px; border-bottom-left-radius: 20px; right: 0px; position: relative; padding-bottom: 0px !important; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" class=""><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: normal; font-weight: bold;" class="">Lorena Pimentel de Salazar, the mother of Keyla Salazar, a 13-year-old girl killed in the Gilroy Garlic Festival shooting, participates in a vigil honoring her daughter on Aug. 3 in San Jose. </span><span class="Fid_6" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: normal;">FRANCINE ORR / LOS ANGELES TIMES</span></div><p id="articleAds_bot" style="margin: 10px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; position: relative; left: 0px; float: none;" class=""><object type="text/html" id="frame_articleAds_bottom" data="http://santarosapressdemocrat.ca.newsmemory.com/eebrowser/ipad/html5.check.2530/ajax-request.php?pSetup=santarosapressdemocrat_bb&useDB=1&token=adfad7359902dd5ab66a9d26aa45699a_5da1f743_5d4b2d&TAUID=null&rn=&action=loadAds&ads=/eeLayout/santarosapressdemocrat/1.0.a/optionspage/template/splash2.html?md5hybrid=1504274381" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; height: 266px; width: 316px;" class=""></object></p><div class=""><br class=""></div></div></div></body></html>