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California lawmakers approve blank budget bills
One day before Gov. Jerry Brown is scheduled to release his updated spending plan, Democrats in the Legislature began lining up empty bills to streamline the budget process. The annual ritual is a reliable source of controversy in the Capitol, with...
Tags: Politics, Bob Huff, Mike Morrell, Republican Party, Jeff Gorell
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California Senate backs requiring warrants when police want emails
SACRAMENTO -- The state Senate on Monday approved a measure that would expand instances in which law enforcement officers in California would have to get search warrants before they can access the public’s email. Sen. Mark Leno (D-San Francisco)...
Tags: Politics, Crime, Law and Justice, American Civil Liberties Union, Laws
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California state Senate OKs social network, drug bills
SACRAMENTO — Social network sites such as Facebook would be required to remove personal information about minors when asked to do so by their parents under a measure approved by state senators Thursday. Separately, the lawmakers voted to allow...
Tags: Lawyers, Jim Nielsen, Heroin, Alex Padilla, Media Industry
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Senate backs misdemeanor charges for heroin, cocaine possession
SACRAMENTO -- The state Senate on Thursday approved a bill that would allow prosecutors to file misdemeanor instead of felony charges in cases of simple possession of heroin, cocaine and other hard drugs. State Sen. Mark Leno (D-San Francisco) said he...
Tags: Roderick Wright, Misdemeanors, Prisons, Jim Nielsen, Crimes
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Jerry Brown OKs funds to seize guns held illegally
SACRAMENTO — The state will send dozens of new agents into California neighborhoods this summer to confiscate nearly 40,000 handguns and assault rifles from people barred by law from owning firearms, officials said Wednesday. The plan received the...
Tags: Unrest, Conflicts and War, Mental Health, Laws, Executive Branch, Weaponry
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Gov. Brown OKs funds to confiscate guns from criminals, mentally ill
SACRAMENTO -- Gov. Jerry Brown on Wednesday signed legislation aimed at taking handguns and assault rifles away from 20,000 Californians who acquired them legally but have since been disqualified from ownership because of a criminal conviction or...
Tags: Gun Control, Personal Weapon Control, Laws, Executive Branch, Firearms
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Chasm divides gun control and gun rights advocates
SACRAMENTO — "Living in parallel universes," is how Senate leader Darrell Steinberg describes it. Gun control and gun rights advocates "talking past each other." Emanating from different cultures, incapable of agreeing on how to make us all...
Tags: Gun Control, Darrell Steinberg, Loni Hancock, Kevin de Leon, Personal Weapon Control
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California Assembly OKs $24 million to speed seizure of guns
SACRAMENTO — The state Assembly approved $24 million Thursday to speed up the confiscation of guns from Californians who are not allowed to own them because of criminal convictions or serious mental illness. A day earlier, lawmakers rejected a...
Tags: Teachers, Gun Control, Tim Donnelly, Teaching and Learning, Personal Weapon Control
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Assembly votes to speed roundup of guns from disqualified owners
The state Assembly on Thursday approved $24 million to speed up the confiscation of 39,000 guns that are in the hands of Californians not allowed to own them because of criminal convictions or serious mental illness. Lawmakers said the urgent action was...
Tags: Gun Control, Politics, Tim Donnelly, Personal Weapon Control, U.S. Congress
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Key state Senate committee backs mattress recycling bill
SACRAMENTO — A key state Senate committee has blessed a compromise among bedding manufacturers, environmentalists and local governments about how best to keep about 2 million used mattresses a year from being dumped on California streets or into...
Tags: Consumers, Politics, Loni Hancock, Criminal Minds: Suspect Behavior (tv program), Elections
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Prop. 8: California politicians at hearing speak of historic day
California Lt. Gov1.Gavin Newsom and state Sen. Mark Leno (D-San Francisco), two longtime champions of gay rights, were invited to the Supreme Court to be in the courtroom during Proposition 8 arguments at the invitation of House Minority Leader Nancy...
Tags: Same-Sex Marriage, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Family, Gays and Lesbians, Gavin Newsom
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Bill could extend last call for alcohol to 4 a.m. in some cities
L.A. NOWState Sen. Mark Leno (D-San Francisco) has introduced legislation that could extend the last call for alcohol in some California cities until 4 a.m., saying doing so could boost the state's economy by drawing in tourists....
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