California attorney general

Was the former California attorney general and San Francisco DA too soft on crime? Or too tough? Her critics are quick to label her, but the reality isn't so simple.

Legislation requiring businesses to include add-on fees when quoting prices to customers goes into effect on July 1 but the Legislature is fast-tracking an exemption for restaurants.

CalMatters has won a Northern California Emmy award for the second year in a row, with videos produced in partnership with Julie Watts of CBS Sacramento.

A handful of Democratic politicians are already running for governor of California in 2026. Attorney General Rob Bonta is acting as if he might jump in. But so far there are no Latinos or Republicans in the mix.

The California Justice Department investigates all fatal police shootings of unarmed civilians. It has not filed charges against any officers since the program began two years ago.

California Attorney General Rob Bonta praised Placer County's prosecution of a fentanyl supplier responsible for the death of a teenage girl, but was AWOL when the Legislature was considering bills to address the fentanyl crisis.

From CalMatters data reporter Jeremia Kimelman: As California’s 2024 election gets more crowded by the day, some ballot measure campaigns are already building their war chests for the costly fight to come, raising more than $60 million since January. Last year, nearly $700 million was spent, mostly by companies, to sway voters on seven November […]

Very quietly, California's Department of Justice released its annual report on crime, revealing that violent and property crimes spiked in 2022.

Although he’s eyeing to one day become California’s governor, for now Rob Bonta is still the attorney general. Today, that means preserving reproductive rights, preventing gun violence, enforcing housing laws — and investigating fatal police shootings of unarmed civilians. CalMatters’ criminal justice reporter Nigel Duara is tracking these cases and recently talked to families who […]

A 2021 state law took investigations into California police shootings out of the hands of local cops. Now, some families say the new system is agonizing in its own way.