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Generally, driving under the influence (DUI) offense will most of the time result into having severe consequences with strict laws applying individually from state to state. It becomes more uncertain when applying those penalties onto the position of the person who is parent and has child custod...

AB 544 improves access for people detained at a county jail to exercise their rights to register to vote and vote in elections. This is in conjunction with the Assembly Constitutional Amendment 4 that will return the right to vote to everyone in state and federal prisons in California with polli...

Enrique Tarrio and Joe Biggs, leaders of the Proud Boys, are facing up to 33 years in prison, seeked by the U.S. Justice Department. They are convicted of seditious conspiracy in one of the biggest cases that has came from the Capitol riots on January 6th, 2021. If the sentencing is imposed, it...

Grand jurors for next year's trial of Trump's 4th indictment had their names, pictures, and even home addresses leaked online with authorities rushing to identify the source and origin of any credible threats against jurors. According to the group Advance Democracy, a user of a fringe social med...

Following their summer recess, California lawmakers will be hearing several bills including blocking local education officials from banning books in the classroom. The Democratic-backed bill would bring a major change to the K-12 education system in the Golden State, preventing governing school b...

According to the Davis Vanguard, Pennsylvania's high probation percentage is actually driving the mass incarceration problem, according to Elizabeth Randol, legislative director at ACLU of Pennsylvania, who notes the state has the “second highest percentage of its citizens on probation and parole...

This unanimous decision made the state Supreme Court was based on a case where a woman refused to testify against a man that was accused of assaulting her. Based in Los Angeles County, the judge had used her accusations that were recorded via body camera footage on the night of the incident as w...

With the initiation of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) under the Obama Administration hitting 11 years yesterday, opportunities have expanded for recipients that were not possible before. Obama had described prospective DACA recipients as “young people who study in our schools,...

Methamphetamine, one of top drugs with harshest addictions, has lethal impacts on those who use it: Tearing their skin, not being able to eat, lack of sleep, and having a difficult time finding help. Clinics are struggling to fight the meth epidemic. According to CalMatters, “The worst part: The...

The ACLU Foundation of Northern California and Criminal Defense Clinic at Stanford Law School sued Santa Clara County Superior Court on July 31st, charging the county's “wealth-based detention and unequal access to the courts” violates the U.S. and California Constitutions. The ACLU noted in the...

The disability community often gets overlooked when it comes to reaching the goal of equitable systems of justice, especially when improving and ensuring protections when encountered by law enforcement. Police interrogations and navigating the judicial process can be a violating and overwhelming...

Police in Marion, Kansas raided a local newspaper office on Friday and the homes of the news organizations' publishers and reporters. According to the Guardian, “Eric Meyer, the owner and publisher of the Marion County Record, told the Kansas Reflector that the city's entire five-officer police ...

The guild that represents thousands of screenwriters in television and film are heading back to the drawing board with studios and their executives starting today for negotiations. Striking for over 100 days now, the double joint with SAG-AFTRA and this labor summer with many unions demanding fa...

According to Schools Not Prisons, women of color with mental health conditions in Los Angeles County jails and California prisons are exceptionally vulnerable to medical neglect and abuse that violates domestic civil rights law and both regional and international human rights law. What needs to ...

Thousands are displaced following devastating Maui wildfires that Hawaii's governor says will require billions of dollars to recover from. Currently, Hawaii residents search for missing loved ones with 55 confirmed dead and the toll likely to rise. Nearly 11,000 people remained without power on...

At Thursday night's Kern County Board of Education meeting, trustee Cisneros requested that the proposed policy be added to the agenda, and in a 5-2 vote, it was denied. Certain members of the community had angry outbursts resulting in everyone being dismissed for a closed session. Upon return,...

The state of California will be required to be of financial assistance towards legal help at no cost for undocumented farmworkers whom are wanting immigration services. This is in application to the state's investigations of wage theft and other labor violations, with response to the governor's o...

Earlier in May, the Food and Drug Administration have rolled out with their donor eligibility guidelines that American Red Cross has brought out into effect, allowing gay and bisexual men to donate blood. “The process eliminates questions that are based on gender and sexual orientation and allow...

Rural and inland communities are harshly hit with the housing crisis, not just in metropolitan areas. The Central Valley has been widely known to reside in while living in an affordable home without a financial breakage, but that has been a challenged quota for the past few years. In Fresno, it ...

On July 11, 2023, Kern County Board of Trustee Cisneros reported that she is requesting the board to adopt a policy similar to Chino Valley School District's policy, which will force schools to out LGBTQIA+ students. The policy would endanger students and make them vulnerable to: Hostile reac...

The Third Amendment to the U.S. Constitution states: “No Soldier shall, in time of peace be quartered in any house, without the consent of the Owner, nor in time of war, but in a manner to be prescribed by law.” This means that the government cannot force you to house troops without permissions....

Last year, President Joe Biden had made an executive order that would require federal law enforcement agencies to upgrade their policies regarding use-of-force. A recent report has come out that has detested that mandate, with the Department of Homeland Security as the country's biggest law enfo...

In Louisiana, a federal appeals court ruled out on Friday that the state of Mississippi is no longer able to ban the right to vote from formerly incarcerated people that have completed their sentences. With the decision passing in a 2-1 ruling, the Jim Crow era policy had violated the First and ...

Officials from the Fresno County Sheriff's Department reported that narcotic detectives from the Sheriff's Office have arrested 48-year-old Robert Lopez, booking him on a felony count for smuggling drugs in a juvenile justice campus he was employed at, just off Highway 99 near American Avenue. B...

On July 31st, a homeless shelter in Kings County called Holiday Lodge had closed due to the ending of funding from Project Roomkey, the $846 million permanent housing program that started back during the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic. Housing 386 people with $7.7 million given to the county in Central ...