Justice

With fresh political attention on mental health, advocates are hoping California embraces humane and effective ways of averting some problems and solving others.

Last-minute changes to a law enforcement-backed bill shift the political landscape in California’s debate over how to curb police shootings.

California Attorney General Xavier Becerra has sued the Trump administration 47 times. For state versus federal litigation that's a record—and he's just getting started.

First-in-the-nation standards for deadly force in policing advanced Tuesday in California, but fault lines emerged in the Assembly, where past efforts have stalled.

Jeanny Morris had a 1-year-old baby and a resume of dead-end retail jobs when she enrolled in the Marinello Schools of Beauty cosmetology program in 2012. She used her welfare benefits to pay for transportation to and from school where, she says, staff pressured her to take out student loans to pay for supplies they […]

California Gov.  Gavin Newsom says he intends to help steer U.S. immigration policy just as former Gov. Jerry Brown influenced climate change policy—because California’s size, robust economy, diversity and political clout allow the state to “punch above our weight.” He added, “The one area that California should do more is on immigration policy."

Gov. Gavin Newsom is in El Salvador to learn about the root causes of the migration crisis. Here's what California's already doing, or considering, as the Democrats who control the state pursue policies that are a repudiation of the current federal approach.

As Gov. Gavin Newsom touched down in El Salvador to begin a three-day trip designed to contrast his own approach to immigration with that of his nemesis, President Donald Trump, the contrast could hardly have been more stark.

Whenever Wendy Carrillo returns to El Salvador, she can’t help wondering what her life would have been like if civil war had not driven her family out.

Force of Law, our new narrative podcast series, will follow the heated debate in the state Capitol this year over legislation that would give California the nation’s toughest statewide standard for justifying deadly force.