Test Your Knowledge of These Key 2025 Legislative Changes in This Timely “From the Classroom” Quiz

Santa Rosa Junior College

Test your knowledge on some key 2025 legislative changes that frequently affect your work. As always, many thanks to retired San Diego County Deputy District Attorney Bob Phillips for his “New and Amended Laws – 2025,” available exclusively to Professional Subscribers of Legal Updates.

1) A hotel manager reports that an unhoused person has been habitually loitering and sleeping in the lobby area and using restroom facilities for personal hygiene purposes. He has also made rude comments to hotel patrons and staff. He has been asked to leave, but refuses. You respond and tell the subject he must leave or be arrested for trespassing. He ignores your request, so you take custody.

Are you able to take this individual to a community resource center and release (“unarrest”) him instead of a booking or citation release?

YES/ NO

2) A petty theft shoplift suspect is detained by retail security. The misdemeanor did not occur in your presence. You conduct an investigation and determine there is probable cause for arrest. Must a private person’s arrest always be accepted under these circumstances? ....

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