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General Provisions for the Prevention of Domestic Violence

September 29, 2025 2:30 amSeptember 29, 2025 2:31 am

Division 10, Part 2 of the California Family Code deals with general provisions concerning the prevention of domestic violence. Section 6220 explains that the purpose of this division is to prevent acts of domestic violence, abuse, and sexual abuse and...

Prevention of Domestic Violence

June 2, 2025 6:21 amJune 2, 2025 6:21 am

California’s Family Code, in Division 10, Part 1, deals with the prevention of domestic violence in this state. Section 6200 names Division 10 as the Domestic Violence Prevention Act. Section 6201 states that the definitions in this part govern the...

Incidental Powers and Duties of Courts

January 26, 2025 2:30 amJanuary 26, 2025 2:31 am

CCP Part 1, Title 1, Chapter 6, Article 2 concerns incidental powers and duties of courts of justice in California. Section 128 specifies that every court has the power to do eight tasks. In addition, if an order of contempt...

Traffic Violence? Is That a Real Thing?

April 11, 2024 2:55 amApril 11, 2024 2:56 am

So there’s gun violence, domestic violence, gang violence – those are, sadly, real things. Then there’s the concept that silence is violence – apparently things that rhyme are the same, like plants and pants (though grass pants would presumably be...

LA County Will Not Release Half Its Inmates After All… for Now

April 3, 2023 9:19 pmApril 3, 2023 9:20 pm

The now (temporarily?) shelved proposal by Los Angeles County Supervisor Hilda Solis to “de-populate” the local jail system raises a number of interesting questions, one of which is: How many of the inmates proposed for released by Solis – who...

Governor Newsom Must Protect Vulnerable Millions and Veto SB 731

September 2, 2022 2:50 amSeptember 1, 2022 1:34 pm

The Governor must protect public safety by vetoing a bill to expand ability of convicted felons to expunge their records. Senate Bill 731 prevents any business that conducts background investigations on its employees from accessing the critical information in most...

Bill to Expand Domestic Violence Services Signed Into Law

September 1, 2021 3:33 pm

A bill that expands domestic violence help services to include text messaging, chat services, and other ways to communicate digitally was signed into law by Governor Gavin Newsom on Wednesday. Assembly Bill 689, authored by Assemblywoman Cottie Petrie-Norris (D-Laguna Beach),...