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Over 5,700 minors have been hired and employed illegally since 2020 with more than 900 companies, according to the data provided by the Department of Labor. This was a highly concentrated disaster within poultry companies in California. Exclusive, Valtierra, and Meza, three poultry facilities, w...

A state task force will most likely shift the punishment on fentanyl-related deaths caused by drug dealers, making those crimes charged with second degree murder. It could start as early as 2024, which is right around the corner, even as Fresno County has already implemented this legal change. ...

The Fresno Teachers Association had made a statement before their official strike against the Fresno Unified School District: In a joint statement issued Monday, the Fresno Teachers Association and the Fresno Unified School District both say they have spent “countless hours” to make progress to ...

California has set it off they will be providing protective leave for miscarriage, stillbirth, and other types of loss. SB 848 will require that employers will need to give their workers five days of leave that are experiencing “reproductive loss.” Reproductive loss includes: miscarriage, stillb...

California is implementing a new three-strikes crime that applies to those who can be given a longer sentence, but advocates are worried about this expansion of the 30-year-old statute. Gov. Gavin Newsom in late September signed Senate Bill 14 from Senator Shannon Grove, R-Bakersfield, which mak...

Hospitals and institutions across the state have had a violent history of sterilizing Black, Indigenous, and Brown women, for more than half of century. This is what we call eugenics, and even after its state ban back in 1979, this harmful practice was still occurring. Medical dishonesty is the ...

California's assault weapon ban is upheld until the law passed three decades ago will be decided whether it remains constitutional or not by the court. In a 2-1 majority, the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals of the 9th Circuit had decided on Saturday that there will be an administrative protection ...

COVID-19, a virus that has killed more than 100,000 Californians, completely shifted how the state's courts were going to operate during uncertain times. Trials were delayed, lawsuits became an unguaranteed mission to accomplish, attorneys didn't know how they were going to best represent their c...

Over on the East Coast in Tampa, Florida, crimes have significantly decreased by 20 percent in the past five years. However, incarceration has, according to a report from the Florida Policy Project. Basically, the same people are being thrown into the whirlwind of recidivism. Former state Sen. ...

The United Nations Standard defines solitary confinement as “the confinement of prisoners for 22 hours or more a day without meaningful human contact,” and it is considered “torture” if it last 15 days or more. But, Prison officials claim that the state does not conduct solitary confinement, des...

A diabetic prisoner has filed a lawsuit against the Idaho Department of Corrections and their medical provider for improper management and care for his medical requests, including a refusal of giving him inuslin which is a necessity for his wellbeing. Jacob Frey, the diabetic prisoner, who resid...

Book bans are not just in schools anymore, extend that to prisons across the country. A report made by PEN America, free speech organization that has been tracking book bans nationwide came out with results that are sad yet not surprising. Last Wednesday, PEN America released “Reading Between th...

A new California law banning private prisons statewide has brought in conflict on the federal level with the country's government not being able to incarcerate undocumented individuals in private facilities. The GEO Group, a private detention company that has their headquarters in Boca Raton, Fl...

Mandatory minimum sentences aren't as clear and effective in the criminal justice system as people who have never been system impacted as they think. It promotes recidivism, and sentences tend to be extended or the lowest sentencing is more than predicted. Such as the “three strikes law,” it exe...

The arrest process in Los Angeles is not the same anymore for criminal defendants. The county court decided that individuals who are accused by misdemeanors and non-violent felonies will now typically be released and be given a legal order to appear in court at a later date, instead of having to...

Both individuals and groups from all over the state have demanded to shift mass incarceration in California for more than a decade in different aspects. Now, Governor Gavin Newsom has announced his “California Model” for the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR), comprisi...

Kaiser Permanente is now responsible in paying $50 million in a settlement for improperly managing services within their behavioral health department and will soon have to provide better support for that that form of care. The Department of Managed Health Care in the state of California has mand...

California is now the first state to provide financial help to undocumented seniors, with a pending approval from Governor Gavin Newsom. AB 1536, introduced by Assemblyman Juan Carrillo, D-Palmdale, that had passed the Senate on a 32-2 vote last week. This bill was later sent to Newsom after an ...

Gavin Newsom, the governor of the state of California, has approved an executive order that would have the state's government become more invested with artificial intelligence despite its criticisms. Now, the higher education system in California is being relied in how to navigate this. “We're n...

Throughout California, automated speeding cameras will be of us in a pilot program under a new bill that was passed by Governor Newsom. According to sources, traffic fatalities are caused by speeding, up to 31 percent. With the cameras, it can reduce speeding in an effective manner, with prior s...

California Governor Gavin Newsom signed SB 428 on September 30th of this year. Applying to the workplace, this new law would expand the violence restraining order law for employed areas in broadening protections for those experiencing workplace harassment. This law will not go into effect until J...

The Annenberg Public Policy Center released out a survey about how informed the American public is on the U.S. Constitution. These results will also be further analyzed on how the First Amendment is perceived, how the U.S. Supreme Court is viewed, and how far does knowledge go on actually knowin...

“Precedent plays an important role in promoting stability and evenhandedness,” mentioned by Chief Justice John Roberts of the U.S. Supreme Court. When reversals of long-time decisions such as Roe v. Wade, the court's legitimacy is one that should be questioned by the people, as it is important fo...

Less than a decade ago, it was ruled as “cruel and unusual” by federal judges to fine and arrest unhoused individuals for sleeping outside due to not having anywhere else to go. Currently, this has been attempted to be swiped, even a request to overturn Martin v. Boise by the U.S. Supreme Court. ...

Felony convictions that have a no-contest plea impact retirement benefits being taken away if it applies to a job performance despite it being possibly turned down to a misdemeanor or even dismissed in the future, a recent ruling said. According to the Human Resources Director Magazine, “This wa...