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California broadens nation’s largest pot eradication effort
With California's four-year-old legal marijuana market in disarray, the state's top prosecutor said Tuesday that he will try a new broader approach to disrupting illegal pot farms that undercut the legal economy and sow widespread environmental damage.
DON THOMPSON, Associated Press Aug. 25, 2022Updated: Aug. 25, 2022 4:22 p.m. This is a carousel. Use Next and Previous buttons to navigate SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California would allow more ill and dying inmates to be released from state prisons under legislation that cleared the state Senate without opposition on Thursday and heads to the Assembly for final approval.
Western fires outpace California effort to fill inmate crews
By DON THOMPSON, Associated Press — As wildfires rage across California each year, exhausted firefighters call for reinforcements from wherever they can get them — even as far as Australia. Yet one homegrown resource is rarely used: thousands of experienced firefighters who earned their chops in prison.
New California gun control law mimics Texas abortion measure
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California punched back Friday against two recent landmark U.S. Supreme Court decisions as Gov. Gavin Newsom announced he will sign a controversial, first-in-the-nation gun control law patterned after a Texas anti-abortion law. His action comes one month after conservative justices overturned women’s constitutional right to abortions and undermined gun control laws in states including California.
Californians won't weigh 'involuntary servitude' amendment
By DON THOMPSON Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California will not consider amending its state constitution to eliminate an exemption that allows indentured servitude to punish crime. The proposal stalled because of Gov. Gavin Newsom’s administration’s prediction that it could cost the state billions of dollars if prison inmates had to be paid minimum wage. Democratic Sen. Sydney Kamlager said Thursday that she ran out of time.
Californians Won't Weigh 'Involuntary Servitude' Amendment
By DON THOMPSON, Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California will not consider amending its constitution to eliminate indentured servitude as a possible punishment for crime after Gov. Gavin Newsom's administration predicted that it could cost the state billions of dollars to pay minimum wage to prison inmates. Democratic Sen.
Personal info on California gun owners wrongly made public
By DON THOMPSON, Associated Press — The California Department of Justice on Wednesday acknowledged the agency wrongly made public the personal information of perhaps hundreds of thousands of gun owners in up to six state-operated databases, a broader exposure than the agency initially disclosed a day earlier.
California Senate rejects involuntary servitude amendment
A proposal aimed at removing the last remnant of slavery from California law failed to pass the state Senate on Thursday after Gov. Gavin Newsom's administration warned it could cost taxpayers billions of dollars by forcing the state to pay prisoners a $15-per-hour minimum wage. The U.S. Constitution bans slavery but says it's OK for the government to force people to work — known as “involuntary servitude” — as punishment for a crime.
California Senate rejects involuntary servitude amendment
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A proposal aimed at removing the last remnant of slavery from California law failed to pass the state Senate on Thursday after Gov. Gavin Newsom's administration warned it could cost taxpayers billions of dollars by forcing the state to pay prisoners a $15-per-hour minimum wage. kAm%96 &]$] r@?DE:EFE:@? 32?D D=2G6CJ 3FE D2JD :EVD ~z 7@C E96 8@G6C?>6?E E@ 7@C46 A6@A=6 E@ H@C< — <?@H?
California Senate rejects involuntary servitude amendment
By ADAM BEAM and DON THOMPSON Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — The California Senate has rejected a proposal to ban involuntary servitude as punishment for a crime. The California Constitution bans involuntary servitude except for the punishment of a crime. Some state lawmakers proposed an amendment to remove that exception. Voters would have to approve the amendment before it could become law. But Thursday, the state Senate failed to put the amendment on the ballot this fall.
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