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“This dynamic has changed in the Capitol in terms of having these conversations,” one trade group CEO said.

A coalition backed by retailers like Walmart and Target announced Thursday it has collected enough signatures to put a ballot measure before California voters this November to enhance criminal penalties for shoplifting and drug dealing.

A coalition backed by retailers like Walmart and Target announced Thursday it has collected enough signatures to put a ballot measure before California voters this November to enhance criminal penalties for shoplifting and drug dealing. Californians for Safer Communities, a bipartisan group made up of law enforcement, elected officials and businesses, said it has collected more than 900,000 signatures in support of the measure to roll back parts of Proposition 47.

Meanwhile, supporters of an initiative to repeal parts of Proposition 47 say they will soon submit enough signatures to qualify their measure for the November ballot.

“I believe legislation that would require going to the ballot to address retail crime or theft is not necessary,” Assembly Speaker Robert Rivas said.

LaNaisha Edwards was 15 when she started going to funerals in the mid-1990s. By her senior year, getting dressed for another memorial service “became the normal thing to do — sadly” in Los Angeles, she said. By September 2010, the plague of gun violence that destroyed other families hit too close to home. Her 24-year-old […] The post Reform Rollbacks May Lead to Another Rise in Mass Incarceration appeared first on Capital B News.

The former chair of the FEC has filed a complaint against a California congressman, alleging he excessively used campaign funds to support a "tough on crime" coalition seeking to roll back parts of Proposition 47.

Senate President Pro Tem Mike McGuire joined Gov. Gavin Newsom in saying he does not think the state needs to overhaul the 2014 ballot measure.

FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) – Fresno Mayor Jerry Dyer said Tuesday afternoon that efforts are underway to get rid of Prop 47 as he believes it has created more crime in the city than prevention. “As long as people feel that they can get away with a crime— vandalizing a business, stealing from that business, they’re […]

When voters made virtually all drug and theft crimes merely misdemeanors in 2014, they set in motion today’s crime sprees. A rebalancing is required.