AB 109 Archives - California Globe

Articles Feature Governor Legal Legislature Local Sacramento

Rather Than Tough-on-Crime Policies, Sacramento Sues 7 Transients For Harassing Businesses

August 17, 2019 2:42 pmAugust 18, 2019 8:32 am

If Sacramento Mayor Darrell Steinberg or any other member of the City Council committed the same crimes the transients are – assault, dealt drugs, committed robbery, masturbated in public, or pooped on the sidewalk in front of a business –...

Articles Governor Highlight Legislature

While Cities’ Homeless Populations Surge, California’s Homeless Industrial Complex Grows

July 30, 2019 9:39 amJuly 31, 2019 10:22 am

Cities throughout the state of California saw their homeless populations surge in the last two years. Yet, Democrat politicians try to normalize homelessness, while at the same time, try to make California residents accept epidemic levels of homeless as a...

Highlight Legal Legislature

California ‘Pre-Crime’ Bill to Root Out Potential Criminals

April 25, 2019 7:39 amApril 26, 2019 6:09 am

Gun Owners of California issued a dire warning this week about “pre-crime” legislation to prohibit people likely to commit a crime from owning a gun. SB 55 by Sen. Hannah Beth Jackson (D-Santa Barbara), would create a new class of...

Feature Governor Legal Legislature

Commit a Crime, Take A Parenting Class?

April 19, 2019 2:03 amApril 19, 2019 4:09 am

The unbelievable legislation coming out of the California State Legislature seeking to make life easier for criminals is disconcerting. Bills proposing to reduce parole supervision from one year to 180 days for serious felons, including sex offenders, a bill to...

Highlight Legislature

California’s Homeless Spending and Policies Have Only Worsened the Epidemic

March 24, 2019 10:01 amMarch 26, 2019 6:56 am

California used to be known for its gorgeous weather, Hollywood movies, high tech, and for growing and providing beautiful agricultural products for the rest of the world. Today, California is known for its crazy Left wing politics, and for its...

Feature Legislature Sacramento

California Murder Parolee Robs Sacramento Restaurant, Patron Shot, Car-jacked

February 28, 2019 12:25 pmMarch 3, 2019 5:05 pm

Four-term Democratic California Governor Gov. Jerry Brown made reforming California’s criminal justice sentencing guidelines a priority over his 16 total years as governor. Add to that his record number of 1,736 pardons and 284 prison commutations, and violent prison inmates...

Feature Legislature

State Auditor Finds Dept of Corrections Rehabilitation Programs a Total Failure

February 5, 2019 3:01 pmFebruary 6, 2019 11:16 am

Although the number of inmates housed in state prisons has decreased in recent years, recidivism rates for inmates in California have remained high, averaging around 50 percent over the past decade. This is according the Elaine Howle, California’s State Auditor,...