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What’s Love Got To Do With It: Sex Trafficking on Valentine’s Day in the City of the Angels

February 13, 2026 5:30 amFebruary 13, 2026 5:31 am

Today the LA County Board of Supervisors is meeting to discuss funding for several departments and programs, including those that impact the County’s children. I am here today to remind the Supervisors that one of our most important roles as...

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...

Bill to Keep Biological Men Out of Women’s Prisons Hearing Tuesday

April 29, 2025 9:13 amApril 29, 2025 9:19 am

Last month Democrats killed two bills by Republican Assembly members Kate Sanchez and Bill Essayli to disallow trans athletes from competing in girls’ and women’s sports – AB 89 and AB 844. Despite plenty of testimony from female athletes about...

Bill to Increase Penalties For Child Sex Buyers Signed by Governor Newsom

September 26, 2024 6:36 pmSeptember 26, 2024 6:36 pm

A bill designed to strengthen protections for children by making the act of soliciting, agreeing to engage in, or engaging in any act of commercial sex with a minor a felony to help fight human trafficking was signed into law...

Assembly Public Safety Committee Waters Down Child Sex Trafficking Bill

July 3, 2024 1:11 pmJuly 3, 2024 1:11 pm

A bill to strengthen protections for children by making the act of soliciting, agreeing to engage in, or engaging in any act of commercial sex with a minor a felony to help fight human trafficking was passed in the Assembly...

Human Trafficking Felony Bill Passed In Senate

May 24, 2024 2:35 amMay 24, 2024 2:36 am

A bill to strengthen protections for children by making the act of soliciting, agreeing to engage in, or engaging in any act of commercial sex with a minor a felony to help fight human trafficking was passed in the Senate...

California’s Senate Democrats Reject Bill to Make Purchasing a Child for Sex a Felony

April 16, 2024 6:32 pmApril 16, 2024 6:42 pm

You read that headline right. California State Senator Shannon Grove (R-Bakersfield) authored Senate Bill 1414 – a bipartisan measure to strengthen protections for minor victims by making the act of soliciting, agreeing to engage in or engaging in any form...