Governor Newsom has signed into law a bill from a Ventura County legislator which could provide new protections against a mentally unstable person having a gun.
AB 1344 allows the creation of a pilot program in Ventura and three other California counties for DAs to seek gun violence restraining orders. Until now, they couldn’t legally do it.
The program allows DAs to seek gun violence restraining orders against people who could potentially pose a risk to themselves or others if they had a weapon.
Democratic Assemblywoman Jacqui Irwin of Thousand Oaks and Ventura County District Attorney Erik Nasarenko teamed up to get support in the state legislature for the pilot program.
