The third story in our series on jail deaths ran this morning. It’s about a spate of suicides in a small, rural jail system in the edge of the Sequoia National Forest calmatters.org/justice/2024/0…

'Train and bus operators have criticized Metro for failing to respond forcefully enough to violence on the system. Drivers have been the target of several recent attacks, including one .. where a man stabbed a bus driver while passengers watched.'
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One of the injured was Christopher Buchanan, a student fellow for the CalMatters College Journalism Network who was covering the encampment with other student journalists for UCLA’s Daily Bruin student paper.

Read more: cal.news/4dppBMW

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COLUMN: 'Campus activism is on full display in Berkeley. Voting, not so much,' writes Joe Garofoli. trib.al/CsPbGCm

How do you curb retail theft? Ask elected officials, and many of them will debate whether to change the decade-old Prop. 47, which lowered penalties for low-level crimes.

For those directly affected by retail crimes, the answer isn't that simple.
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'Some bills before California’s Legislature don’t come from passionate policy advocates, or from powerful interest groups.

Sometimes, the inspiration comes from a family car ride.' via Lynn La

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Workplace news! (that is not about my own workplace, which also has news!)

CalOSHA says the long-delayed indoor heat protection rule is back on track to be passed this summer... with a major exception for prison workers.
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What a different vibe one word creates 😄 (my 6 y/o niece)

Big news from CalMatters and The Markup today!

Breaking: For the first time in California history, state officials voted today to crack down on the overpumping of groundwater in the agricultural heartland. Growers in Kings County face millions in fees and more: cal.news/3W2yHsK

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BREAKING: The California State Treasurer's Office is involved in an FBI investigation, multiple sources tell KCRA 3.

At this point officials won't say if it revolves around the office or State Treasurer Fiona Ma, herself.
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Great reporting today from @RA_Becks & John Osborn D'Agostino.

Governments, nonprofits & businesses are increasingly turning to hired guards to triage homelessness, opening a new front in the state’s housing crisis — one ripe for violence & civil rights issues, but thin on accountability & state oversight -Lauren Hepler tinyurl.com/ydjftpvy