Cortese said the bill was prompted by a 2021 shooting at the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority (VTA) railyard in San Jose that killed 10 people, including the shooter.
An independent investigator found the transportation authority didn’t have prior knowledge or warning that the worker was planning a mass shooting, VTA said. The agency had received complaints from the shooter’s colleagues that he was dissatisfied at work, but “none of the complaints were such that they would have put VTA on notice that there would be an imminent workplace shooting,” VTA said.
