Justice

While some California courts pull back amid the Omicron surge, others forge ahead with business as usual.

The new year brings a raft of new laws for Californians. They’re likely to affect what your neighborhood looks like, how safe you feel, what recourse you have against discrimination — even how you take out your trash. In 2021 the Legislature’s super-majority of Democrats sent Gov. Gavin Newsom hundreds of bills that he signed […]

Gov. Newsom puts on a tough face about California crime, defends past reforms and proposes $350 million-plus to stop organized retail thefts.

Kern County has had state’s highest homicide rate since 2016, with rival prison gangs warring on its rural northern border.

Outgunned: The story of a woman, an abuser, and California’s failing gun control By Robert Lewis November 17, 2021 Lea este artículo en español. Eighteen miles south of the Central Valley home that was her prison, down Highway 99 past almond orchards and trucks overloaded with hay bales, sits the Madera County Superior Court. The four-story […]

An obscure committee examining California’s penal code saw more than half its recommendations go to the governor. Gov. Newsom signed all the bills.

The politically powerful prison guards’ union and Gov. Gavin Newsom have resisted a COVID vaccine mandate, despite growing outbreaks.

The California Highway Patrol still impounds thousands of unlicensed drivers’ cars for 30 days, despite a 2017 federal court ruling calling the holds unconstitutional.

The measure now heads to Gov. Gavin Newsom, who helped broker last minute negotiations.

California has been one of only four states without the power to permanently remove law enforcement officers from their jobs. A just-signed law will change that.