SB 371, signed on September 1 by California Governor Gavin Newsom, allows an officer or employee of a local animal control agency, or a nonprofit organization that contracts with a county to provide services to undomesticated burros, to
- Remove an undomesticated burro that strays onto private land
- Remove an undomesticated burro that strays onto a public roadway
- Provide medical care to undomesticated burros, including euthanasia
- Relocate an undomesticated burro to an appropriate facility or private adopter
The bill gives the local animal control agency the sole discretion to declare the burros unfit for return to the range and to deem them fit for re-release to an appropriate facility or private adopter.
An undomesticated burro is a burro that has not been tamed or domesticated for a period of three years after its capture and is not protected by the federal government under the Wild Free-Roaming Horses and Burros Act.
Western Horse Watchers Association 
It’s sad, removing the donkeys. What happened to the Native Americans? Reservations! They were relocated. What is happening to the donkeys? Relocation? That is the European way.