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This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Attorneys are seeking shorter prison terms for 18 California inmates, citing “gross racial disparities” in how ...

California over the past dozen years enacted a series of criminal justice laws that were meant to give more people an opportunity to be resentenced and thin out the state’s severely overcrowded ...

California will be the first state to ban most law enforcement, including federal immigration agents, from covering their faces while conducting official business under a bill signed by Gov. Gavin ...

From U.S. v. California, decided yesterday by Judge Christina Snyder (C.D. Cal.): "A state law or regulation impermissibly discriminates against the federal government if it treats a state entity more ...