Jim Cooper is the Sheriff of Sacramento County, California, a post he has held since December 2022. A Democrat, he served in the California State Assembly from 2014 to 2022. Earlier he worked at the Sacramento County Sheriff's Office and served on the Elk Grove City Council and as the city's mayor.
Case
California's AB 2760 bars all law enforcement, including federal agents, from using electric shock gloves. Newsom and the author defend the ban. DHS and a federal prosecutor reject California's authority over federal agents. As of October 1, 2026, no court has ruled.
Role at the time: Sacramento County Sheriff, a Democrat and former state Assemblymember, in a post on his official X account
Response to this claim
First Assistant U.S. Attorney Bill Essayli said on September 29, 2026 that California has no jurisdiction to regulate federal agents and that he had advised the Department of Homeland Security to disregard AB 2760.
“It’s unfortunate that this only became an issue once ICE purchased the G.L.O.V.E. In today’s political climate, anything associated with the Federal government immediately becomes radioactive. Unfortunately, the fallout won’t be felt by the Federal government; it will be felt by local deputies and police officers who are losing a valuable compliance and de-escalation tool, as California agencies have been using it for years. What somehow continues to be overlooked is that California cannot dictate the tools and tactics used by Federal law enforcement. Just like the state’s mask restrictions, this legislation will have no effect on Federal agencies.”
Relative to the ban as applied to federal officers, Cooper rejects it on both questions: he says California cannot dictate the tools federal officers use, so the law will not reach them, and he says it will take a useful de-escalation tool from local deputies. We used Condemned because he rejects the ban as ineffective against federal agents and harmful to local law enforcement. The closest competing label is Mixed or conditional, because he says the law will have no effect on federal agencies while also objecting to its cost to local deputies, but the two points support one rejection.
Statement dates: September 1, 2026
Statement dates: September 1, 2026
Statement dates: September 1, 2026
