California Assembly Bill 1661 was approved by Gov. Jerry Brown in September 2016 and amended the Government Code to require that local agencies provide sexual harassment prevention training to all local agency officials.
Local agency officials are defined in the text as, “any member of a local agency legislative body and any elected local agency official.”
Existing law already required that these officials receive training in ethics, if the local agency (i.e. city, county or special district) provides any type of compensation, salary, or stipend to those officials.
The EIA provides online courses offered through TargetSolutions to meet both the local agency ethics and sexual harassment prevention training requirements. For more information, please contact the Loss Prevention Department or check out this FAQ from TargetSolutions.