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After months of wrangling over how to best protect the identity of sexual assault victims and whether a large fine was justified, Uber and the California Public Utilities Commission, or CPUC, have struck a deal. Uber will not pay a $59 million fine levied by the commission last year, nor will it disclose details that would identify the 3,000 people who said they suffered sexual assaults on its platform in 2018, as outlined in a 2019 company safety report. CPUC had initially asked that the company give the commission the victims’ contact information, and fined Uber when it would not release their names.Now, Uber will instead pay a $150,000 fine to CPUC, contribute $5 million to the California Victim Compensation Board and put $4 million toward creating industry-wide safety standards and education, according to a Thursday filing by the CPUC.
By Daniel Trotta
(Reuters) – California has agreed to pay reparations to those who were forcibly sterilized under old laws aimed at people deemed unfit to have children.
The legislation, years in the making, will compensate survivors of state-sponsored sterilization that took place under so-called eugenics laws in effect between 1909 and 1979. The $7.5 million fund will also cover survivors of forced sterilization performed in prisons after 1979.
The Forced or Involuntary Sterilization Compensation Program was assured as part of a massive state budget deal signed by California Governor Gavin Newsom on Monday night.
Eugenics is a now-discredited practice designed to stop people diagnosed with mental deficiencies from reproducing. Often labeled as “mental deficient” and “feebleminded,” those targeted for sterilization were disproportionately members of racial and ethnic minorities, especially Latinos in California, according to the bill.
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