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California s police reform push remains challenging despite leftward shift
But they still have a tough road ahead.
An early legislative battle between Democrats offered a reminder of the issue’s thorny politics, even in a deep-blue state and cast a shadow on other policing bills, from a new duty-to-intercede standard to expanded misconduct disclosure requirements.
Moderate Democrats nearly blocked a closely watched officer decertification bill in a committee hearing last month, an open display of the power struggle between progressives and law enforcement-aligned moderate Democrats. That bill and nearly a dozen other reform proposals will test the power of a national reckoning that has gained momentum in the wake of George Floyd’s death last summer at the hands of Derek Chauvin, a former Minneapolis police officer who was convicte
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Stacy Estes in front of the home he shares with his fiancée in Sacramento on April 7, 2021. Photo by Anne Wernikoff, CalMatters
$18.4 billion.
That’s how much California parents owe in overdue child support payments, but a staggering $6.8 billion of that debt is due to the government, not families the result of the Golden State keeping an unusually large portion of payments for itself. No other state in America takes a higher percentage of payments and only one state charges a higher interest rate when parents don’t pay on time, the Salinas Californian’s Kate Cimini reports in a new series, “Intercepted,” for CalMatters’ California Divide project.
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More than 2 million Californians are breathing more toxic and unhealthier air all because of the role of a small number of key California lawmakers over the last two years.
Meet the 4 lawmakers holding up crucial health protections for more than 2 million Californians living near drilling.
This piece is the first installment of a series profiling some of the many ways that the fossil fuel industry exerts pressure across California’s government. Through lobbying, insider influence, campaign spending and more, the fossil fuel industry has secured friends within the Governor’s office, and at the legislative and regulatory levels resulting in cuts to public health and climate ambitions.
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Proposed Bill to ID Recall Petitioners Withdrawn From California Senate
Proposed legislation that would have allowed California politicians facing the threat of recall to identify and contact petition signers has been shelved.
Sen. Josh Newman (D-Fullerton), who authored Senate Bill 663 (SB 663), pulled it from consideration on April 20. The proposed legislation would have given politicians access to the personal information of petition signers so they could be contacted to see if they wanted to change their minds.
Though Newman made it clear the proposed changes would not have applied to the current petition to recall Gov. Gavin Newsom, the bill sparked a lengthy debate in California’s Senate Committee on Elections and Constitutional Amendments on April 12, when opponents suggested that giving politicians access to the personal information of petition signers was an invasion of privacy rights and could lead to retaliation.