Governor Gavin Newsom marked World Mental Health Day by signing AB 727, a bill requiring that public school student ID cards, grades 7-12 and college,
In a decisive 33–2 vote Monday afternoon, the California State Senate gave final legislative approval to AB 379, a long-contested child protection bill aimed at
In a floor debate marked by heartbreak, outrage, and raw honesty, the California Assembly last week refused to restore full felony protections for 16- and
California is in the grip of a human trafficking epidemic. On the very streets where children should be walking to school and families gathering in
Under current California law, an individual convicted of purchasing a child for sex could be sentenced to as little as two days in jail. It
Bills making their way through the state legislature had to make it out of the first house today in order to survive their path to
A growing movement in California aims to legalize prostitution or “sex work.” The state started the process last year by decriminalizing loitering for prostitution with
Last week, on the first day of the new session, a bipartisan group of California state legislators introduced a bill (SB 14) to redefine human
Earlier this year, Gov. Gavin Newsom signed SB 357, a bill to decriminalize loitering for the purposes of prostitution, and even though the law doesn’t
California consistently ranks number one among the states for the number of human trafficking cases reported each year, but the Golden State doesn’t consider human
