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Learning about race and thinking about race are two different actions, even if they are not exclusive to one another. It's not just in a book or at an annual conference event as a forum discussion that the whole workplace is required to attend. It is an identity that has an actual reality, one th...

The majority of the company's employees of the LGBTQ's dating app Grindr have signed union representation cards towards the goal of unionizing in order to better the company and its work environment and culture. "We hope management recognizes the overwhelming support amongst workers for Grindr U...

Last Thursday, Chino Valley Unified School District passed a parental notification policy that would require schools to report to parents about their child's gender identity. It was introduced last month as a protocol that would follow a three-day notice if a child that is enrolled as a student ...

So you were placed on probation for a misdemeanor of a DUI offense for example. You had to move away from your original jurisdiction because of a job or a family matter, but you didn't notify probation or didn't think it was a matter to update. Now, you have an absconder for probation. What does ...

Senate Bill 1106 was signed by Governor Gavin Newsom last September, the Fresh Start Act, in efforts to help impacted individuals clear their criminal records if eligible, to support the process of expungement that wouldn't be prohibited due to outstanding restitution fines. In the past, Califor...

A former correctional officer that was employed at Central California Women's Facility in Chowchilla for the past decade is charged for sexual misconduct, facing 96 counts that include rape, sodomy, sexual battery, and rape under color of authority towards inmates. Former guard Greg Rodriguez, 5...

United Ways of California released an analysis of cost of living and household income in the county of Kern, discovering that more than 40 percent of the residents' population cannot afford basic necessities. The average total income per family that lives under the same roof is around $40,000, c...

After a six-hour long board meeting for the Temecula Valley Unified School District, it was a 3-2 board decision on voting to reject a state-endorsed curriculum that includes a short biography of gay rights leader Harvey Milk. Less than 24 hours later, California Governor Gavin Newsom issued a $...

The city of New York have issued the largest settlement in history this week for 1,300 people who were involved in the 2020 George Floyd protests and attacked by the New York Police Department. The plaintiffs of the civil lawsuit had claimed that NYPD had crossed the line on protestors' constitu...

More than 180,000 veterans have been or are currently incarcerated in our nation's prisons at least once in their lives. Let's think about that for a second. Where did this involvement of the criminal legal system derive from, and why does it seem like a neglected matter? Here is the simple exp...

This is a highly anticipated bill for the year 2023, with community support that would impact thousands of families across California. It is a reform that addresses the disproportionate effects of the BIPOC individuals and their loved ones surviving under the Prison Industrial Complex (PIC). Ass...

Senate Bill 94, known as the “recall and resentencing: special circumstances” bill that was introduced by Senator Dave Cortese. It would allow those convicted of murder and were sentenced to life without parole or given the death penalty to petition for parole. According to the Visalia Times Del...

In the past two years, California prisons have been shutting down due to the decline of inmate count with both less people entering prison and many finishing their sentences. According to the Public Policy Institute of California, the state prisoner's population dropped from 122,000 to 94,500 in ...

This past Wednesday, SAG-AFTRA did not reach a deal with AMPTP, leading to Friday's start to the conjoined strike with the Writers' Guild of America. Consisting of 160,000 members from SAG-AFTRA and 11,000 members from WGA, this marks the first time Hollywood's writers and actors have simultaneou...

We always dread yet expect triple-digit weather for over 100 days of the year, and it's not the “tradition” of extreme weather that anyone is used to. Prisoners aren't either, but they are also trapped in an oven for 22 hours a day with no air-conditioning or a safe way to cool down. The heat in...

What might seem to only stretch out a couple of dollars for some toiletries for the month, prisoners in California are lucky to barely afford a packet of ramen or a bar of soap. SB 474 known as the Basic Affordable Supplies for Incarcerated Californians Act that was introduced by Senator Josh Be...

We all understand that a person can be seen as just a case file and nothing more to judges and prosecutors, leading to a despairing result that can change that person's life completely upside down. A full outlook on what really happened that got the person arrested and detained in jail is extreme...

An Oklahoma judge dismissed the lawsuit last Friday that would have granted reparations for the survivors of the 1921 Tulsa Massacre. 3 survivors who made the lawsuit in 2020, Lessie Benningfield Randle, Viola Fletcher and Hughes Van Ellis, did not come from a simplified background – they endure...

While driving on the streets to your friend's house or finally getting off the freeway to get to work, tracking who is getting from one place to another is a form of police surveillance. Automatic license plate readers, known as ALPRs, are usually mounted on police cars or on public infrastructu...

Last September, Governor Gavin Newsom signed the Community Assistance Recovery and Empowerment Act known as CARE into law under Senate Bill 1338. Its purpose is to implement a new branch into the court infrastructure that take care of mental health cases and the clients. This legislation allows ...

Last month, Governor Newsom announced his proposal to the United States Constitution to limit gun ownership under the climate of gun control debates and daily mass shootings throughout the country. Here is what the proposal consists of under the drafted 28th Amendment that promotes gun safety pr...

The Fifth Amendment is a right that protects you from compelling force that would self-incriminate yourself in a criminal case. These testimonial communications that would be protected under the right include using your own mind and its content, can and cannot be verbal as well. The confusion if ...

ICE is known to use deceptive tactics, including impersonating a police officer that violates the Fourth Amendment of many immigrants without notice. Warrantless raids that are without probable cause, it can be difficult for many to determine if this is an officer that they can trust. Prompting q...

Voting rights for incarcerated and formerly incarcerated individuals has always been a fight to obtain and improve. It varies by state, but in California, those who have completed their parole can be given back the right to vote. However, what about those who are currently on parole? How does the...

Next term starting in October, the Supreme Court will decide whether people who are subject to domestic violence orders can possess a gun under federal law....