El Dorado County District Attorney Vern Pierson

Making Crime in California Illegal Again: Bill to Undermine Prop 36 Blocked Permanently in Senate Appropriations

August 15, 2026 6:00 amAugust 15, 2026 7:35 am

California voters overwhelmingly approved Proposition 36 in 2024 to restore felony penalties for repeat theft and drug crimes in November 2024. Prop 36 passed by 68%, and passed in every one of California’s 58 counties. Within months of passage of...

California’s Democrat Lawmakers Must Want Crime, Drugs and Homelessness to Increase

July 28, 2026 1:19 pmJuly 29, 2026 12:11 pm

California voters overwhelmingly approved Proposition 36 to restore felony penalties for repeat theft and drug crimes in November 2024. Prop 36 passed by 68%, and passed in every one of California’s 58 counties. Within months of its passage, Democrats in...

How Does a Convicted Serial Arsonist Get Early Parole With 1/3 Sentence Served?

November 15, 2022 9:51 amNovember 16, 2022 12:13 pm

Politics now trump public safety and criminal law in California, and even “prevent people from going to prison.” With California suffering deadly and devastating wildfires every year, it is astonishing that Parole Commissioners with the California Department of Corrections and...

California DAs Want State Prison Officials to Explain Early Release of Violent Criminals

November 4, 2022 2:50 amNovember 3, 2022 9:32 pm

The California District Attorneys Association wants the state prison system to explain why it is releasing violent prisoners who haven’t earned sufficient rehabilitation credits early from prison. In some cases, they have re-offended and committed even more serious crimes, the...

Zero Bail Bill, Rejected by Voters, Awaiting Final Vote in Legislature

August 31, 2022 7:12 amAugust 31, 2022 8:25 am

Zero bail was rejected by California voters in 2020, but introduced as legislation in January 2021 by Sen. Bob Hertzberg as Senate Bill 262, and is ironically named the “Safe and Resilient Communities Act.” Hertzberg denies that SB 262 is “zero bail,” and now many in the media are...

Sen. Hertzberg Warned He Would Bring the Zero-Bail Bill Back – And He Just Did

August 25, 2022 11:59 amAugust 27, 2022 8:30 am

The bill to reform/destroy the bail industry in California by annually revising statewide bail schedule and set the bail amount closer to the charged person’s ability to pay, Senate Bill 262 by Senator Bob Hertzberg (D-Los Angeles), has been taken...

Tulare County DA Warns of Fallout with Reduced Sentences for Gang Crimes

June 1, 2022 3:17 pmJune 1, 2022 4:45 pm

In October 2021, the Legislature passed and Gov. Gavin Newsom signed into law Assembly Bill 333 by Sen. Sydney Kamlager (D-Los Angeles), to reduce allowable gang crimes enhancements, described by law enforcement as “a windfall for the violent, criminal street...