San Jose officials have placed new restrictions on the city’s license plate reader surveillance system due to public concerns about privacy, immigration enforcement, and data sharing, while police leaders argue the technology is necessary to address a major staffing shortage.
The Los Angeles office of the Council on American-Islamic Relations is calling for an investigation into an anti-Black hate crime targeting a University of California, Irvine student, who was allegedly chased, assaulted, and subjected to racial slurs by five white teenagers riding electric bikes.
Activists and tenants in England are organizing a nationwide, pro-rent control demonstration on April 18 to call on politicians to put people first and address the housing crisis caused by sky-high rents and the profit-driven agenda of the real estate industry.
Two years after passing by a slim margin, California’s Proposition 1 has exceeded its goals, expanding treatment capacity and housing resources to overhaul the state’s behavioral health system.
A federal judge issued a temporary restraining order protecting 18 residents of the Eighth and Harrison Street encampment in Berkeley from a planned city eviction, halting the demolition of the encampment until a hearing can be held to determine whether the restraining order will be extended.
State Sen. Sasha Renée Pérez is urging the California Senate to pass SB 995, the Masuma Khan Justice Act, to increase accountability for private detention operators and impose fines and permits for facilities that fail to meet health, safety, and labor standards.
California is facing a bottleneck in affordable housing production due to a lack of funding, leaving 39,880 units stuck in financial purgatory and requiring an extra $4.1 billion to clear the current backlog.
CAIR-LA released a report showing a sharp rise in anti-Muslim discrimination in the US, with Florida, Illinois, Minnesota, Oklahoma and Texas being particularly affected, and the increase being attributed to anti-Muslim narratives spread by public officials.
California lawmakers are exploring innovative construction methods, such as factory-based construction, to reduce costs and increase housing production in order to address the state’s severe housing shortage.
California is investing $4 billion to turn high-poverty campuses into community schools, providing services such as health care, mental health support, and food pantries, with the goal of meeting a child’s academic, physical, mental, social and emotional needs.
California Attorney General Rob Bonta and 14 other attorneys general have filed an amicus brief in support of a petition to reverse a Ninth Circuit ruling that strikes down a Washington state law banning employment discrimination based on sexual orientation, warning that the ruling could cause significant mental, physical and financial harm to residents.
Tom Steyer’s housing platform is the most structurally complete from an MMT perspective, combining supply expansion, direct investment in affordable units, and structural fiscal reform, while the other candidates’ platforms are either insufficient or stop short of the public provision logic the crisis requires.
Gov. Gavin Newsom announced the groundbreaking of the Los Angeles County Care Community, a $65 million behavioral health campus that will transform six vacant state-owned buildings into a unified mental health and housing community providing 162 housing and treatment beds.
Assembly Bill 2214 aims to address food insecurity across California by strengthening agriculture, infrastructure and access to food resources, while Assembly Bill 2213 seeks to combat federal budget cuts and provide direct funding to farmers and residents.
The California Commission on the State of Hate released a report showing that millions of Californians have experienced or witnessed acts of hate, and has outlined policy recommendations to prevent hate activity, support victims, and strengthen public responses.
The U.S. Supreme Court has temporarily blocked a California policy protecting the privacy of transgender students in K-12 schools, in a ruling hailed as a victory for parental rights by a group of parents near San Diego.
The Supreme Court has reinstated parents’ right to be informed of their child’s gender identity at school, leaving California schools in legal limbo and advocates concerned for the safety of transgender students.
Civil rights groups have criticized the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement operations in Southern California, alleging that the raids amount to racial profiling targeting Latino communities in violation of their Fifth and Fourth Amendment rights.
California regulators have approved a first-in-the-nation corporate climate disclosure law requiring billion-dollar companies to publicly report their greenhouse gas emissions, in a move to assert the state’s continued climate leadership.
The California Department of Justice has concluded that criminal charges are not warranted in the fatal 2023 shooting of Jaime Valdez by a Fontana police officer, and has issued two recommendations to the Fontana Police Department to improve transparency and public access to departmental policies.