July 30, 2024

An unaccompanied migrant child seeking asylum, is registered by a border patrol agent after she crossed the Rio Grande river from Mexico into Roma, Texas on May 14, 2022. Photo by Adrees Latif, Reuters

CalMatters en Español

California ayudó a un adolescente a luchar contra la deportación pero ahora el programa que le ayudó podría ser eliminado

Los fondos estatales para defender legalmente a los niños inmigrantes no acompañados pronto podrían agotarse.

By Wendy Fry • July 30, 2024

California Divide

California helped this teen fight deportation. Now the program is on the chopping block

State funds to legally advocate for unaccompanied immigrant children could soon dry up.

By Wendy Fry • July 30, 2024

Attorney Jeffrey L. Fisher speaks at the California Supreme Court in San Francisco on May 21, 2024. Photo by Martin Novitski, Supreme Court of California

Justice

‘Stinging barbs’: California high court allows lawsuit over single use of N word in SF DA office

'An isolated act of harassment may be actionable if it is sufficiently severe,' the California Supreme Court wrote in reviving a racial discrimination lawsuit filed by a Black woman in the San Francisco District Attorney's Office.

By Shaanth Nanguneri • July 30, 2024

Illustration by Miguel Gutierrez Jr., CalMatters

CalMatters en Español

Diez años después California finalmente podría permitir dar subsidios al servicio celular de inmigrantes indocumentados

Los defensores dicen que la promesa de hace 10 años de la Comisión de Servicios Públicos de California de poner el programa estatal de subsidio de servicios de telefonía celular a disposición de inmigrantes indocumentados podría cumplirse en noviembre.

By Alejandra Reyes-Velarde • July 30, 2024

California Divide

10 years later, California may finally allow undocumented immigrants cell service subsidies

Advocates say the California Public Utilities Commission’s 10-year-old promise to make the state’s cell phone service subsidy program available to undocumented immigrants could be fulfilled in November.

By Alejandra Reyes-Velarde • July 30, 2024

Inmates work in the Delancey Street Restaurant kitchen at the California State Prison Solano in Vacaville on July 24, 2024. "We actually built this restaurant," said Ray Williams, Jr., front right. "We started with hard hats and elevated to smocks." Photo by Florence Middleton, CalMatters

California Divide

In this California prison, inmates who operate a restaurant for their guards and others ‘rely on each other’

The venture, launched by a venerable San Francisco foundation, counts former Governor Jerry Brown and current Governor Gavin Newsom among its supporters.

By Carol Pogash • July 30, 2024

The exterior of the Kenneth Hahn Hall of Administration in downtown Los Angeles.

Commentary

Los Angeles County supervisors look to rare reforms that would dilute their power

Three of Los Angeles County's five supervisors are supporting a major overhaul of county governance that would almost double the board's size and establish an elected county executive, which would arguably become California’s second-most powerful office.

By Dan Walters • July 30, 2024