California Apartment Association

Bill would extend law that helps evict tenants possessing illegal guns, drugs

A bill introduced last week would once again extend a California pilot program that helps rid apartment communities of tenants in who are in the illegal possession of guns, ammo or drugs.

The pilot program, which applies only to certain jurisdictions, allows prosecutors and city attorneys to initiate the eviction process, at a landlord’s request, to stop nuisances involving unlawful weapons, ammunition or drugs. The program allows those evictions to be based on law enforcement paperwork, such as an arrest report, and affects the cities of Los Angeles, Long Beach, Sacramento and Oakland.

Assemblyman Miguel Santiago

AB 2930 by Assemblyman Miguel Santiago, D-Los Angeles, would …

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