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SACRAMENTO – Today, the California Assembly Privacy Committee will hear only consumer privacy bills promoted by tech companies to weaken the California Consumer Privacy Act.
SANTA ANA — Participatory democracy, in which constituents are free to comment on the actions and views of elected officials, is one of the cornerstones of our nation. But not at the Orange County Board of Supervisors, where meetings are held in a manner more befitting a monarchy.
LOS ANGELES — Dignity Health, a Catholic hospital chain, has denied medical services to transgender patients and to women seeking reproductive health procedures as widely accepted as tubal ligations. And yet, the University of California public system has formed alliances with Dignity Health
LOS ANGELES — There are more than 200,000 K-12 students who are homeless in California, according to the state's Department of Education. At California's community colleges, roughly 1 in 5 students are also without a home. Federal and state laws require that schools to designate liaisons to identify
SANTA ANA — Today, Orange County Sheriff Don Barnes announced that his department will terminate its contract with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to house detainees at the James A. Musick facility in Irvine and Theo Lacy facility in Orange. In addition, the sheriff announced plans to
