criminal justice

Perkins operations are an undercover law enforcement tactic that officers use to elicit information from unknowing criminal suspects. California may limit their use against certain people under 26.

California recently lifted the statute of limitations on child sex abuse lawsuits, leading to many cases against schools. A bill going to Gov. Gavin Newsom would raise the standard for evidence.

Lawmakers spent two years negotiating a compromise that would protect sexual assault survivors’ path to justice without bankrupting cash-strapped school districts, cities and counties.

When Californians voted to reduce drug penalties in 2014, it likely had the unintended consequence of also increasing homelessness in the state, according to a new report. The report, released Thursday by the Public Policy Institute of California, set out to measure the long-term effects of Proposition 47 – a 2014 ballot measure that lowered […]

Grace Coleman woke up in a hospital and learned she caused a fatal crash. Now in a California prison, she's striving to hold herself accountable.

California counties and school districts have been flooded since 2019 with lawsuits from people who say they were sexually abused as children in schools, foster care and juvenile detention facilities. State lawmakers are struggling to balance counties’ and schools’ financial health with the incalculable cost of survivors’ trauma.

A new report from the California Department of Justice adds to concerning pattern documented in previous reporting by The Trace.

A judge will investigate how AI-based errors affected criminal cases in Nevada County, where the district attorney has already acknowledged that mistakes appeared in four cases.

A CalMatters investigation found that many of the safeguards designed to protect against fiduciary abuse have been abandoned or ignored.

A two-year federal investigation found decades of staff sexual abuse against incarcerated women at California correctional facilities.