California Code of Regulations
Title 15 - Crime Prevention and Corrections
Division 6 - Commission on Correctional Peace Officer Standards and Training
Article 3 - Apprentices
Section 6020 - Apprentices

Universal Citation: 15 CA Code of Regs 6020

Current through Register 2024 Notice Reg. No. 38, September 20, 2024

(a) All employees of the California Department of Corrections (CDC) and the California Department of the Youth Authority (CYA) who enter a rank and file Correctional Peace Officer job classification are apprentices, unless they have already attained journeyperson status in the same classification accepted by the Commission on Correctional Peace Officer Standards and Training (CPOST). A Correctional Peace Officer apprentice who moves from one apprenticeship classification to another apprenticeship classification that does not have the same apprenticeship requirements shall become an apprentice in the new job classification, regardless of whether he/she had attained journey level in the previous classification.

(b) The Correctional Peace Officer job classifications requiring apprenticeship are:

(1) Correctional Officer;

(2) Correctional Counselor I;

(3) Parole Agent I, CDC;

(4) Parole Agent I, CYA (Institution and Field);

(5) Medical Technical Assistant, CDC and CYA;

(6) Casework Specialist, CYA;

(7) Youth Correctional Counselor, CYA;

(8) Youth Correctional Officer, CYA; and

(9) Correctional Fire Fighter.

(c) An employee employed in an acting position, an out-of-class assignment, or a training and development assignment, shall not be indentured into the apprenticeship program for that new position.

1. New article 3 (sections 6020-6029) and section filed 7-14-2000; operative 8-13-2000 (Register 2000, No. 28).

Note: Authority cited: Section 13600, Penal Code. Reference: Section 13600, Penal Code; and Section 3078, Labor Code.

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