Court Dismisses Anti-Trans Assault Lawsuit Against Rosario Dawson
That these false claims came from someone we’ve known as chosen family for decades and who we were trying so hard to help out, as we have many times in the past, was very heartbreaking. Nevertheless, we have great empathy for him and have only ever wished him well. Rosario Dawson (@rosariodawson) May 27, 2021
In October 2019, Dedrek Finley, a trans man who had known Dawson and her family for many years and worked for them doing household repairs, filed a lawsuit alleging mistreatment and discrimination, including physical assault and anti-trans insults such as deliberate misgendering.
Defund Police Unions, Not the Police
As a relatively new state senator, I did my best to work across the aisle.
One example is my assisting Sen. Mark Leno (D-San Francisco) in February 2016 when I coauthored one of his more ambitious bills. It was Senate Bill 1286, which addressed police officers and their records of misconduct. If approved, this legislation would have required that “personnel records and records relating to complaints against peace officers and custodial officers to be [made] available for public inspection pursuant to the California Public Records Act.”
The bill passed through the Senate Public Safety Committee with five votes; the two Republican members did not vote for the bill. At the time, Steven Greenhut of the Orange County Register opined in favor of SB 1286.
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Mon, May 24th 2021 9:31am
Tim Cushing
Following the passage of a law that finally made lots of documentation related to police misconduct publicly accessible in California, the requests for information began pouring in. Some law enforcement agencies complied. Others sued. The state Attorney General showed the public how much they mattered by siding with the secretive agencies.
The entity behind the standards for law enforcement training in the state Police Officers Standards and Training (POST) was supposed to post its training materials publicly in response to the new law. But it found a convenient out: copyright law. It claimed the company that produced its training materials on everything from ALPR readers to deployment of facial recognition tech refused to allow its copyrighted material to be posted publicly.