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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...

Ashton Kutcher’s Alarming Silence on Biden’s Border Crisis

August 6, 2021 6:40 amMarch 23, 2022 11:56 am

Human trafficking and the sexual exploitation of minors is an epidemic. While this issue is often diluted by political jockeying, there was a moment in 2017 where it seemed the tides were shifting. Ashton Kutcher, the slap-stick comedian and star...

Gov. Newsom Signs Bill to Protect Sex Offenders Who Have Homosexual Sex with Minors

September 12, 2020 1:57 pmSeptember 13, 2020 4:23 am

California’s Democrat Governor Gavin Newsom just signed Senate Bill 145, which lowers the penalties for adults who have sex with same-sex minors. As Senator Melissa Melendez Tweeted, “Well what a shock. Newsom signed SB145, the bill that allows a 24...

Sex and Taxes: Legislators’ Annual Preoccupation

September 1, 2020 10:13 amSeptember 1, 2020 10:49 am

“Tis impossible to be sure of any thing but Death and Taxes,” the popular idiom says. But in California it is more accurate to say “sex and taxes.” With California in dire financial straits having been locked down since March,...

California Democrats Introduce ‘Immunity from Arrest’ Law

February 12, 2019 10:30 pmFebruary 13, 2019 6:13 am

California Democrats have introduced legislation to shield a person from the consequences of crimes they commit in California, even violent ones, as long as the person reports the crimes to authorities.The language of the proposed statute appears to immunize a...