AB 1788 – California Globe

The Vermin Are Winning in Los Angeles: Five Dead From West Nile, Typhus Makes an Encore

September 24, 2026 12:04 pmSeptember 24, 2026 12:38 pm

Los Angeles County is now reporting 100 West Nile virus cases this year, nearly five times the total recorded for all of 2025, with 94 hospitalizations and five deaths. The numbers come from the Los Angeles County Department of Public...

Los Angeles’ Latest Typhus Outbreak: More ‘Medieval’ Conditions

September 23, 2026 8:52 amSeptember 23, 2026 10:55 am

Los Angeles has a flea-borne typhus outbreak in L.A.’s Wilshire Center, causing seven people to get sick, six were hospitalized. There have been 109 typhus cases this year, and more than 220 last year in LA. The disease, historically associated...

EMT, Paramedic Human Trafficking Training Bill Signed by Gov. Newsom

September 7, 2022 12:14 pm

A bill that would require California EMTs and Paramedics to undergo training pertaining to human trafficking was signed into law by Governor Gavin Newsom on Tuesday. Assembly Bill 2130, authored by Assemblyman Jordan Cunningham (R-Paso Robles), would require an EMT-I,...

Bill To Impose Civil Penalties on Hotel Owners Over Human Trafficking Passed in Senate

April 1, 2022 12:22 pmApril 1, 2022 12:23 pm

A bill to allow civil penalties to be issued against hotels if owners know of human trafficking occurrences and don’t report them was passed in the Assembly on Thursday, and will move to the Senate. Assembly Bill 1788, authored by...

Bill to Ban Rodent Poisons Miraculously Reappears After Being Shelved in 2019

September 13, 2020 5:26 pm

While healthy Californians are being forced by Gov. Gavin Newsom to stay home more than ever over the COVID-19 flu virus, and mask-up when going out, California’s homeless vagrant population continues to flourish unabated by city officials or local police....

Deafening Silence by Gov. Newsom and New CA Surgeon General on California’s Growing Homeless Public Health Crisis

November 8, 2019 11:43 amNovember 18, 2019 8:22 am

All of this is because of homeless drug addicts who are allowed to defecate, urinate, have sex and bleed in the streets, along rivers and beaches, and in public parks. In January, Gov. Gavin Newsom created the brand new...

Bill to Ban Rodenticides Coincides With Rat Infestation and Disease in Los Angeles

May 31, 2019 5:50 pmJune 1, 2019 8:35 am

While Los Angeles, and other large California cities are experiencing rat infestations within homeless camps, AB 1788, by Assemblyman Richard Bloom (D-Santa Monica) will ban Rodenticides – rodent poisons. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and Department of Pesticide Regulation already...