The Crime Report

APRIL 6, 2022

Following yet another deadly mass shooting, California lawmakers are borrowing a page from Texas’ new “vigilante” law on abortion, with a proposal to empower private citizens to sue those who traffic in illegal weapons, reports the Associated Press. High Schoolers at Alderdice High School in Pittsburgh, PA.

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MARCH 9, 2022

In a historic shift aimed at reversing decades of poor outcomes for youth offenders and public safety, California is closing its Division of Juvenile Justice. When the state sought her leadership to oversee the re-envisioned California youth justice system, Lucero, 60, said the opportunity made sense.

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The Crime Report

OCTOBER 27, 2022

The California Voter Foundation is trying to support election officials by providing de-escalation training and other resources to their offices. In Nevada county, residents harassed an election official and pushed their way into her office, assaulting a staffer.

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JULY 1, 2021

California has seen an 80 percent decline in crime from 2010 to 2020. Looking at FBI crime statistics of the 71 California cities consistently reporting, 58 showed decrease in Part I offenses from 2010 to 2020 and 13 showed increases. Crime Trends over Past Decade. This summary was prepared by TCR Justice Intern Blake Diaz.

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The Crime Report

OCTOBER 12, 2022

California workers destroy illegal pot grows. Photo courtesy California NORML.

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The Crime Report

OCTOBER 4, 2021

California plans to write off an estimated $534 million in fines and fees that have accrued to justice-involved individuals in the state. I am very glad to see California now leading the country in this area. A landmark bill signed into law by Gov. ranging from overdue court fees to unpaid traffic fines. “We

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The Crime Report

JULY 6, 2021

percent from 2019 to 2020 to the highest number in over a decade, according to a recent report by the California Department of Justice. Hate crimes against Black Californians rose 87.7

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The Crime Report

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

A new Office of Gun Violence Prevention in California will reduce gun violence by keeping guns away from “dangerous individuals” and promoting research and data collection, the Washington Post reports. People with felony or violent misdemeanor convictions, restraining orders, or serious mental illness are all included on the list.

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The Crime Report

JULY 8, 2021

The California Department of Justice expects to investigate between 40 and 50 deadly police shootings of unarmed people every year after passing a state bill requiring the state to investigate such shootings, reports Courthouse News Service. million appropriated under the 2021-2022 California budget.

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Mondaq

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

We have seen significant progress on the dual-track infrastructure plan; this year's legislative session in California came to a close, A lot of relevant policy matters have happened over the past two weeks.

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OCTOBER 22, 2021

In January 2016, California legislators passed the Gun Violence Restraining Order (GVRO) law, which provides a legal mechanism for law enforcement to temporarily remove deadly firearms and ammunition from people who are at risk of harming themselves or others. . As of October of this year, 19 states including Washington D.C.

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At the Lectern

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

.” The Report also “publishes a bi-weekly newsletter about the latest developments in state constitutions and courts.”

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The Crime Report

JUNE 8, 2021

California was the first state to introduce ”Red Flag” orders, also known as “Extreme Risk Protection Orders (ERPOs). The number of GRVO orders in California increased significantly from 70 in 2016 to 700 in 2019, but the “overall uptake has been slow the researchers said. They now exist in 19 states and the District of Columbia.

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The Crime Report

MAY 12, 2021

Supported by a large budget surplus and federal pandemic recovery money, California Gov. California has an estimated 161,000 people experiencing homelessness, more than any other state, with the largest concentration residing in Los Angeles. The proposal includes $8.75 The proposal includes $8.75

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MAY 8, 2021

” Before joining the California Supreme Court as its first Latino Justice, Reynoso was the director of California Rural Legal Assistance and a justice on the Third District Court of Appeal. His memory and deeds will continue to inspire so many of us across California and the rest of our country.

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The Crime Report

JANUARY 20, 2022

Burns found that there was no “emergency” to warrant restraining California from sharing millions of gun owners’ personal information with gun violence researchers. Michael Reynolds of Snell & Wilmer raised concerns that the personal information could slip through the cracks of research institutions and be published publicly.

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At the Lectern

DECEMBER 22, 2020

In 2015, the Supreme Court made two admissions: it posthumously admitted Hong Yen Chang to the California bar and it admitted that its decision 125 years earlier denying him bar membership was wrong. ( In re Chang (2015) 60 Cal.4th New California Supreme Court Historical Society newsletter.

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The Crime Report

APRIL 4, 2022

California has been in the spotlight in recent weeks for its battle handling crime spikes, and most recently their Sacramento battle recovering from a devastating mass shooting. I think it’s a very, very dangerous time right now in California,” Schubert has said in regard to the perceived rise in violent crime.

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The Crime Report

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

A California privacy law set to go into effect in 2024 will reshape how children and teens use the Internet, Caitlin Dewey reports for Pew Trusts Stateline news service. New York and Pennsylvania are still considering versions of California’s legislation. Several states have adopted the approach.

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The Crime Report

AUGUST 9, 2021

Nearly two thirds of gun owners who live with children don’t store all firearms locked up and unloaded, according to a study of California adults published in JAMA Network Open. In California, 931,000 households with children — or an estimated one in five households with children — contain at least one firearm.

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DECEMBER 30, 2021

In addition to her work with Ear Hustle, Poor is a visual artist and photography professor at California State University-Sacramento. This article was originally published in the second edition of College Inside, a biweekly newsletter about the future of postsecondary education in prisons, and is reproduced with permission.

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The Crime Report

JUNE 2, 2021

As state legislatures begin to recognize that justice-involved juveniles do not fare well in carceral settings, California is leading a national trend in developing alternatives to youth detention. Knight notes that the number of youths referred to California’s juvenile probation agencies declined by 66 percent between 2006 and 2018.

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AUGUST 15, 2023

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The Crime Report

OCTOBER 8, 2021

The study by the University of California Davis Violence Prevention Research Program (VPRP) concluded that a record of alcohol offenses within two years of a firearms purchase is “associated with 2.20 Males were the focus of the study because they represented the bulk of California gun purchasers in 2001. times the hazard of suicide.”.

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The Crime Report

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

As the holiday shopping season approaches, a string of “smash-and-grab” robberies have hit luxury retailers in California and Illinois, leaving authorities shocked by the brazen nature of the thefts that have involved sometimes dozens of people at a time, reports Reuters. The Los Angeles Times reports that San Francisco Dist.

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The Fashion Law

JUNE 14, 2021

In 2018, Gwyneth Paltrow’s Goop made headlines when it agreed to pay $145,000 to settle the false advertising lawsuit waged against it by the state of California in connection with the marketing of its $66 vaginal Jade and Rose Quartz Egg and its Inner Judge Flower Essence Blend.

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The Crime Report

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Only a handful of states received grades as high as B for their state prison reporting: California, Minnesota, Vermont, Washington and Wisconsin. A report from the COVID, Corrections and Oversight Project at the LBJ School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas shows that few states provide much data publicly.

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SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

California received a “C-” for widespread vaccination efforts, as well as the steps state officials took to provide some free phone calls, free video calls and free hygiene products to incarcerated people. Even New Jersey and California, which scored higher than the other 49 prison systems, did not do enough to mitigate COVID-19.”.

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The Crime Report

AUGUST 19, 2022

Royal Ramey (left) and Brandon Smith are co-founders of the Forestry and Fire Recruitment Program, which provides training and job connections for people who worked in California prison fire camps. More than 5,000 wildfires have ravaged California this year. Courtesy of the Forestry and Fire Recruitment Program).

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The Crime Report

MARCH 18, 2022

San Francisco citizens spend more money per resident on their police department — but they “get less in return” compared to most major California cities , according to the latest data released by the Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice (CJCJ). Additional Reading: California Cut $6 Million From Victim Compensation in 2020.

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The Crime Report

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

By the end of 2022, there were 36 pieces of active psychedelic drug legislative initiatives, and now, a bill to legalize certain naturally occurring psychedelics in California is headed to Governor Newsom’s desk.

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The Crime Report

JULY 1, 2023

The incident, which occurred at a Pride disco event in Hermosa Beach, California, happened around 9:45 PM on June 17. The incident comes in the wake of a report released by California Attorney General Rob Bonta in May that details an increase of overall reported hate crimes by 20.2%

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The Crime Report

DECEMBER 22, 2021

A small number of (California) offenders who should have been banned from owning firearms were still able to obtain them,” she said in a statement accompanying the study. “We The research findings are based on 13-year study of a cohort of 76,311 California purchasers of legal handguns, between 2001 and 2013.

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The Crime Report

OCTOBER 21, 2022

A similar measure failed earlier this year in California due to concerns about whether eliminating the exception would force the state to pay prisoners minimum wage. Three states have already passed similar legislation, including Nebraska, Utah and Colorado.

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The Crime Report

APRIL 26, 2021

Burbank, California-based Redstone Firearms owner Geneva Solomon, California’s only Black gun store owner, claims that a recent increase in the number of Black women who have come into the store to buy a gun stems from the strained relations between the Black community and police, and a real fear of dialing 911 in emergencies.

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The Crime Report

JANUARY 10, 2022

The harm inflicted by American gun violence potentially extends well beyond those who are the immediate victims of a shooting, says a California study. The survey was conducted over one week in the summer of 2020, just as major cities around the country—including in California—began experiencing a surge in homicides.

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JULY 18, 2022

Meanwhile, in California, The Guardian reports that as a result of authorities’ crackdowns on homelessness banning people from camping in certain spots, at least 200 unhoused people live outside in a remote stretch of dessert in LA County.

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