Virtual Training on California’s Deadly Force Standards

EVENT DESCRIPTION

In 2019, California passed AB 392, a historic bill that changed the state's statutory deadly force standard. Unfortunately, many courts have not recognized that the standard has changed and plaintiffs attorneys are being forced to raise the issue and educate the courts. This CLE will provide California practitioners with guidance on how to ensure new use of force standards are applied in your case and future cases. 

ABOUT the SPEAKER(S)

Peter Bibring is a nationally recognized civil rights lawyer and expert in police practices with more than twenty years’ experience litigating in state and federal courts and advocating in the California legislature and local governments.

​For seventeen years, Mr. Bibring practiced civil rights law as an attorney at the ACLU of Southern California, where he brought cutting-edge cases on policing, public access to government records, free speech and expression, journalists’ rights, privacy, jail and prison conditions, and racial and religious discrimination. He has litigated cases at all levels of state and federal trial and appellate courts, including the United States Supreme Court and the California Supreme Court. From 2014 to 2021, he led the ACLU’s work on policing in California as Director of Police Practices for the ACLU of California and personally led advocacy that rewrote key California laws governing policing, including those on racial profiling, public access to police records, police use of deadly force, and decertification of police officers who engaged in serious misconduct. His cases helped end use of gang injunctions in California, changed policies at major police departments and state agencies, and helped protect journalists, protestors, unhoused people, workers, and others from government abuse.

From 2023 to 2025, Peter served on the executive team at the Los Angeles County Office of Inspector General, providing oversight of the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department and the Los Angeles County Probation Department, where he investigated and monitored all aspects of those agencies’ operations, including uses of force, deputy-involved shootings and in-custody deaths, internal affairs and discipline systems, jail and detention center conditions, and deputy gangs.

Before joining ACLU SoCal, Mr. Bibring worked in private practice, litigating on behalf of workers against abuses by their employers, working with unions and nonprofits to identify employers with particularly abusive practices and litigating early cases on behalf of domestic workers trafficked by their employers.
Mr. Bibring attended Harvard College and New York University School of Law. He clerked for Judge Marilyn Hall Patel on the United States District Court for the Northern District of California and for Judge Pierre N. Level on the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.

Mr. Bibring also proudly serves as of counsel with Iredale & Yoo APC in San Diego.

DATE and TIME

Thursday, September, 11, 2025, at the following time by time zone:

11:30am - 1:00pm PST
12:30pm - 2:00pm MST
1:30pm - 3:00pm CST
2:30pm - 4:00pm EST

A NOTE ABOUT TIME ZONES

Any time listed in this registration that does not include a time zone can be assumed to be in Central Standard Time (CST).

ACCREDITATION

This event is accredited for 1.5 general credit hours with the State Bar of California (NPAP is a multiple activity provider with the State Bar of CA).

Most attendees should be able to self-report for CLE credit to their own state bars, and in instances where a state bar requires that the event sponsor report on behalf of attendees, NPAP is happy to assist.

RECORDING

The event will be recorded and the recording will be available to attendees after the event. However, attendees will only be elligible for CLE credit for the portions of the event that they attended live. Retroactive viewing of recordings will not be elligible for CLE credit, as NPAP does not have a means of validating attendee participation in this circumstance.

FINANCIAL SUPPORT

NPAP never wants cost to be a barrier to attendance for our programming and we are happy to work with anyone interested in attending to find a means to make the program accessible. If you require financial support, please contact KG at kg@nlg-npap.org for assistance.

ACCESSIBILITY

It is our priority to ensure accessibility for all attendees - please contact KG at kg@nlg-npap.org if you have specific inquiries regarding the virtual experience.