Legislature Approves Bill Ending Mandatory Jail Time for Nonviolent Drug Offenses
SB 73 would help end mass incarceration and California’s War on Drugs By Vanguard Staff Sacramento –…
SB 73 would help end mass incarceration and California’s War on Drugs By Vanguard Staff Sacramento –…
By Eric Grammatico SACRAMENTO, CA – Senator Scott Wiener’s Senate Bill 110 successfully passed through the State…
By David M. Greenwald Two of the more contentious bills this term in the State legislature are…
By Paige Laver SAN FRANCISCO, CA – It will be January before a pilot overdose program—authored by…
By David M. Greenwald Sacramento, CA – Four weeks after the bill sailed through the Assembly on…
By Sydney Kaplan and Mia Machado SACRAMENTO, CA – The California Assembly Public Safety Committee voted 6-1…
By Natasha Feuerstein LOS ANGELES, CA – A leading grassroots organization, Dignity and Power NOW (DPN), is…
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By Michael Wheeler SACRAMENTO, CA – Change could soon be coming for who can run for sheriff…
SACRAMENTO, CA – Mandatory prison and jail sentences for nonviolent drug offenses would end under legislation that…
By Aishwarya Rajan CALIFORNIA – ACLU California Action this week released its annual scorecard for 2019-2020 state…
By Dalia Bautista Rodriguez SACRAMENTO – Incarceration for simple drug possession could soon end – or at…
By Mano Raju “In the midst of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, a shortened legislative session, and a…
By Linh Nguyen SACRAMENTO – Despite public opposition and misinformation, Governor Newsom has signed into law Senate…
By Sahar Swaleh SACRAMENTO – Senator Scott Wiener introduced SB 145 in January 2020, proposing that all…
By Ayanna Gandhi SACRAMENTO – CA State Senator Scott Wiener (D-SF) re-introduced legislation yesterday that would expand…
With COVID cases at San Quentin soaring from none to over 1400 in just under a month,…
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By Linh Nguyen Sacramento – An audit requested by Senator Scott Wiener finds that law enforcement agencies…
For the second day in a row, SB 50 lost on an 18-15 vote, although Senator Scott…