Justice

People with criminal convictions often are stymied in their search to find a job—and many of them have worked hard to expand “ban the box” provisions in California so that private employers are also covered by them.

The Las Vegas mass shooting that left 58 dead and hundreds wounded has renewed attention on federal legislation supported by the Trump administration that could undermine California's strict gun control laws.

California lawmakers call on Congress to nix federal legislation that would allow out-of-state gun owners to pack concealed firearms in public places throughout California.

A controversial bill that would have barred state and local law enforcement from helping the federal government prosecute marijuana offenses stalled in the California Legislature.

In the final days of the session, hundreds of bills landed on Brown’s desk. Here are some of the most consequential.

California has its own Civil War history, but it also has a painful colonization history—one academics believe ought to be told more in schools. It’s a tale of a state founded by white colonists who wiped out much of the Native American population by bringing disease, forcing relocation, imposing starvation, and carrying out what its more severe critics describe as a forgotten, state-sanctioned genocide of a people.

California medical marijuana users can breathe a sigh of relief—the Trump administration can't crack down on them for at least a few more months.

At the Trump administration's urging, Congress has rattled California's medical marijuana industry by at least temporarily endangering a key protection against federal prosecution of medicinal pot.

A Democratic legislator has introduced a state resolution opposing Trump-backed federal legislation that would allow out-of-state gun owners to pack concealed firearms in public places throughout California.

California would allow residents to opt for a “nonbinary” gender marker on all forms of state identification—"M" and "F" would likely be followed by “X" —under advancing legislation. That would make California the first state in the nation to fully depart from the rigid either/or categorization of gender, embracing a more fluid understanding of the term—at least on paper.