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Proposition 57, passed in 2016, was intended to reduce overcrowding in California prisons and incentivize rehabilitation, but ...

California has enacted a law prohibiting most law enforcement officers from covering their faces while on duty, sparking debate over its enforcement on federal agents. ON MY58. CALIFORNIA IS NOW THE ...

In light of the federal government’s refusal to cooperate with state and local investigations of the two recent federal ...

California over the past dozen years enacted a series of criminal justice laws that were meant to give more people an opportunity to be resentenced and thin out the state’s severely overcrowded ...

The Department of Homeland Security announced on Monday that it will not comply with a new California law which bans most law enforcement officers, including federal immigration agents, from wearing ...

California became the first state to ban most law enforcement officers, including federal immigration agents, from covering their faces while conducting official business under a bill that was signed ...

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Parents, students and workers in Southern California are among who these new laws could benefit. The new laws address health care, separation of a parent from a child and deal with how schools handle ...