Gov. Gavin Newsom is taking California's shrinking juvenile detention system away from the adult corrections bureaucracy and shifting it into the system for social services.
Gov. Jerry Brown's grant of clemency to the brother-in-law of Speaker Anthony Rendon underscores not just Brown's thinking, but California's evolution on crime and punishment.
Revisiting lethal force, the death penalty and humane treatment of inmates. LAUSD trusts in state funding. Soda lobbyists. PG&E lets the bankruptcy begin.
Kamala Harris launches her 2020 presidential campaign in Oakland. Gov. Gavin Newsom makes an example of an Orange County beach town. And Mike Males on kids.
No one has credibly explained why teens of every demographic and locale stopped committing crime. Before we rush to approve Gov. Gavin Newsom's “reform” of the Division of Juvenile Justice, we need solid analysis, not pleasing myths and prejudices, not self-serving credit-grabbing.
Gov. Jerry Brown issued his regular Christmas pardons this week, concluding a record-breaking eight years that make him the most forgiving governor in modern California history.
Gov. Jerry Brown spoke of things he fixed, tried to fix and fears can never be fixed. He sat in the main room of the home he and Anne Gust Brown have built on land his great grandfather, August Schuckman, bought for $1 an acre in the 1850s. Newsom has not yet stopped by the Browns’ home. It’d be worth the trip.
A new California justice is sworn in, new crime data is inconclusive, electric car sales rise, water tables fall and Colusa County makes way for Jerry Brown