Ryan Sabalow

Los poderosos casinos tribales de California y sus antiguos rivales, las salas de juego de propiedad privada, están gastando enormes sumas de dinero para influir en los legisladores. La lucha legislativa podría remodelar la multimillonaria industria del juego del estado.

California’s powerful tribal casinos and their longtime rivals, privately owned gambling halls, are spending huge sums of money to influence lawmakers. The legislative fight could reshape the state’s multi-billion dollar gambling industry.

Former Assembly Republican leader Marie Waldron and San Francisco Democratic state Sen. Scott Wiener may not have a lot in common, but they’ve formed an unlikely alliance over psychedelic drugs.

In California, it’s usually police who confine mentally ill people for involuntary 72-hour holds so they can be evaluated and treated. A pending bill would extend the so-called 5150 confinement authority to county-designated psychiatrists, psychologists, clinical social workers, licensed marriage and family therapists and clinical counselors.

Read this story in English. Desde la pandemia, el senador estatal demócrata Tom Umberg se ha unido a cientos de miles de abogados, demandantes, acusados y testigos de California y se ha acercado de forma remota a las audiencias judiciales. Para Umberg, abogado en ejercicio y ex fiscal federal de Santa Ana, el uso de […]

Each year, California lawmakers pass temporary extensions to COVID-era rules that allow people to attend court remotely via video conferencing services. One of the state’s most powerful unions has been a barrier to making the popular feature permanent.

Read this story in English. ACTUALIZACIÓN: La oficina del gobernador Gavin Newsom dijo hoy que vetaría cualquier proyecto de ley que prohibiera totalmente el fútbol americano juvenil. “Mi administración trabajará con la Legislatura y el autor de [un actual] proyecto de ley para fortalecer la seguridad en el fútbol juvenil, garantizando al mismo tiempo que […]

The Assembly has until the end of January to decide the fate of the youth tackle football bill, which would prevent kids under 12 from playing the sport to protect them from brain trauma.

To keep more police on patrols, law enforcement groups would like officers to spend less time in court. Legislation would allow non-sworn community service officers to testify in preliminary hearings instead of police.

Two-thirds of the bills opposed by the oil industry this year were killed, thanks in part to an alliance with the building trades union, forcing Democrats to sometimes choose between jobs and the environment.