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Los Angeles County Votes To Ban Flavored Tobacco And Vaping Products

September 25, 2019 2:49 pm

The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors have voted to make it illegal to buy or sell flavored tobacco or vaping products within county limits. The county joins San Francisco, Michigan, and, most recently, Massachusetts, in banning flavored e-cigarettes and...

Miguel Santiago introduced the free tuition bill.

RECAP: AB 857, Creating Public Banks In California

September 24, 2019 7:00 pm

After being struck down in years past, AB 857 is a signature away from making public banks in California a reality. What is it? Assembly Bill 857. According to AB 857, whose framework is largely based on the only current...

RECAP: SB 330, The Bill That Would Restrict The Housing Laws of Individual Cities

September 24, 2019 1:50 pm

In the midst of a housing crisis, the battle over a city deciding for itself what it’s needs are vs. what the state needs are clashing again in the form of SB 330. What is it? Senate Bill 330. SB...

RECAP: AB 1215 Banning Facial Recognition From Police Body Cameras

September 23, 2019 5:09 pmSeptember 24, 2019 10:13 am

AB 1215 seeks to ban all biometric surveillance in police body cams. What is it? Assembly Bill 1215. AB 1215 would install a three year ban on using biometrics, such as facial recognition systems, from being used in police body...

The Housing Crisis Part II: Los Angeles

September 23, 2019 4:22 pmSeptember 24, 2019 9:21 am

Walking down East 3rd Street in Los Angeles, on the border of the neighborhood known as “Skid Row,” a man in his late 40s wearing a faded Los Angeles Raiders t-shirt pointed to a bank of condos. “I used to...

The Sordid History of the California State Beach Smoking Ban: Part III – the Mysterious Pro-Smoking Amendment

September 20, 2019 1:14 pmSeptember 21, 2019 12:54 am

On the eve of the signing of SB 8 and AB 1718, the bills that would ban smoking in state beaches and parks, the California Globe has uncovered new information about the developments, changes, and consequences of the bills. In...

Assemblywoman Christy Smith (Photo: Kevin Sanders for California Globe)

RECAP: AB 1507, Limiting The Boundaries Of Charter Schools

September 19, 2019 7:00 pmSeptember 19, 2019 5:51 pm

An infamous loophole for California charter schools is on the verge of being erased. What is it? Assembly Bill 1507. Current law allows charter schools to be in places outside the school districts they are a part of in California....