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SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- California Attorney General Rob Bonta on Wednesday announced the launch of the Office of Gun Violence Prevention, a new first-of-its-kind division of the California Department of Justice.
Bonta held a press conference in San Francisco with gun safety advocates to detail the unit that will develop strategies to address gun violence at the state and local level.
SACRAMENTO, CA) – Today, Governor Newsom signed a package of bills aimed at strengthening California’s cannabis laws. Included in the package was Assembly Bill (AB) 1706 by Assemblymember Mia Bonta which will resolve implementation gaps in California’s cannabis record sealing law.
Alameda Sun
The Alameda Community Assessment Response & Engagement (CARE) Team is set to receive $1.8 million from the California state budget for the 2022-2023 Fiscal Year.
California Governor Gavin Newsom signed Assembly Bill (AB) 179, the Budget Act of 2022, implementing funding for key state priorities. The CARE Team allocation item is under the Health and Human Services section of the bill, authored by Assemblymember Philip Ting (D-San Francisco).
Nadja Jespen and Sbeydeh Viveros-Walton, Ed Source
When Jason Vazquez began his freshman year at the University of California, Berkeley, scholarships were a crucial part of his college financing plan.
Morgan Rynor, ABC 10
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Some fast food workers will spend the night at the Capitol Tuesday as they urge lawmakers and the governor to pass and sign a bill that they say will allow them to have a voice in their pay and benefits.
The bill faced strong opposition last year and failed, but it’s back and must be voted on in the next two weeks before the session ends on Aug. 31.
Guy Marzorati, KQED
California voters will decide whether to enshrine the right to abortion in the state constitution, following the Assembly's vote on Monday to place the question on the November ballot.
Legislation would include Bay Area’s 477 floating homes within the state’s existing rent protection cap
(SACRAMENTO, CA) Assemblywoman Mia Bonta (D-Oakland) introduced Assembly Bill 252 adding rent and vacancy control to the Floating Home Residency Law to protect one of the Bay Area’s last sources of affordable housing.
Don Thompson, Seattle Times/AP
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California moved a step closer Wednesday to creating sites where people could legally use drugs under supervision designed to save them from dying if they overdose, over the objections of opponents who said the state would be enabling dangerous and illegal activity.
The full Assembly will now consider allowing test programs in Los Angeles, Oakland and San Francisco, more than a year after the proposal narrowly passed the state Senate.
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(NEW YORK) -- Stop AAPI Hate has become a leading force in tracking and addressing the rise in anti-Asian attacks in communities across the country.
The leaders behind this group are taking to the California legislature to turn this community-driven effort into legislation with its No Place for Hate policy initiative.