California Senate

In response to calls for greater police accountability, California passed laws to make police misconduct records more accessible to the public and placed the state Attorney General’s office in charge of investigating police killings of unarmed civilians. Following the 2018 Sacramento police shooting of Stephon Clark, who was unarmed, lawmakers now require law enforcement agencies […]

In some ways, there are two Californias.  Depending on your values and political views, the state is either a bastion of diversity and inclusion, or a treacherous place for minorities and marginalized groups. On one side, many in California embrace its diversity with open arms. Today, advocates and lawmakers will kick off the Transgender Week […]

Low-income patients who need specialized cancer treatment often struggle to get it. Advocates say a new law is a small step toward improving services for those patients.

The importance of protecting our teens from harmfully early school start times has not changed and has never been more urgent.

It’s an old script with an all-too-familiar storyline: The unqualified man benefits from the political machine, bypassing the qualified woman.

Most California public companies had at least one woman on their board by 2020, but two lawsuits are challenging the law.

SB 28 would provide two important tools to force transparency and ensure accountability from broadband internet providers.

SB 660 would help ensure that voters aren’t subjected to deception and duplicity that generate distrust in direct democracy.

Lawmakers say they'll take no action this year on a bill requiring nursing home owners and operators to get state approval before they acquire, operate or manage a nursing home.

Sen. James Mills, personified a long-gone era of cordiality and bipartisanship in the California state Senate.