Assembly Bill 118 is another bill returning from 2020 but this one was vetoed by Gov. Gavin Newsom. The CRISES Act would create pilot programs to allow community-based organizations to respond to 911 calls rather than police. Author Sen. Sydney Kamlager (D-Los Angeles) says 70% of 911 calls are for nonviolent, noncriminal issues and could be handled by social workers or mental health professionals.
Kamlager said the governor returned the bill last year over concerns about housing the program in the Department of Emergency Services. This time, she hopes to house it in the state’s social services department.
Assembly Bill 89
Assembly Bill 89, sponsored by Asm. Reggie Jones-Sawyer (D-Los Angeles), would require new police officers to either have a bachelor’s degree or be at least 25 years old the age many scientists believe the brain reaches full maturity. “We don’t allow 18-year-olds to drink,” the South L.A. Democrat said, but younger police are given a gun “and lit
/ In this Jan. 15, 2021, file photo, California State Sen. Steven Bradford, D-Gardena, addresses a press conference at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles.
The chairman of the California Legislative Black Caucus says he wants ‘no more kneeling and social media posts. We’ve had enough of the performative acts.’
Hours before a jury found former Minnesota police officer Derek Chauvin guilty of George Floyd’s murder, California’s Black state lawmakers turned up the pressure on their colleagues to support stronger police accountability measures in 2021.
“No more kneeling and social media posts. We’ve had enough of the performative acts,” said Sen. Steven Bradford (D-Gardena), chairperson of the California Legislative Black Caucus, during an event on Tuesday. “Real police reform is needed now.”
Progressives place reform hopes on Rob Bonta as California attorney general
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SACRAMENTO There are California Democrats and then there’s Rob Bonta.
The five-term Assembly member represents an Oakland-based district where two-thirds of voters are registered Democrats and is one of the most progressive lawmakers in Sacramento. He has advanced protections for renters and detained immigrants, sought to add warning labels to soda cans and proposed a wealth tax.
His colleagues will decide this week whether Bonta, 49, will become the state’s next attorney general, replacing Xavier Becerra, who stepped down to become President Biden’s secretary of health and human services.
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A demonstrator at a protest following the death of Daunte Wright, an unarmed black man killed by police, in Brooklyn Centre, Minneapolis. Photo / Victor J Blue / The New York Times
A demonstrator at a protest following the death of Daunte Wright, an unarmed black man killed by police, in Brooklyn Centre, Minneapolis. Photo / Victor J Blue / The New York Times
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By: Steve Eder, Michael H. Keller and Blacki Migliozzi In February, Illinois enacted a law that rewrote many of the state s rules of policing and mandated that officers wear body cameras. In March, New York City moved to make it easier for citizens to
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