Sacramento Woman Fights For Tougher Drug Laws Aimed At Dealers After Brother’s Overdose
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SACRAMENTO (CBS13) – A woman is on a mission to change California law after her brother accidentally overdosed without knowing what he was taking.
Allyssia Solorio’s family is still in shock and left without closure eight months after her brother’s death. She is putting that pain into action, calling for tougher laws on drug dealers to prevent the same tragedy from happening to someone else.
“For us, that wasn’t enough, 23 wasn’t enough,” she explained.
Twenty-three years. That is all the time Solorio had with her baby brother, Mikael Tirado, after she says he accidentally overdosed last September. Solorio says he was poisoned with fentanyl.
Bid to end spousal rape distinction stalls in California Follow Us
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By - Associated Press - Monday, May 3, 2021
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - Efforts to end what California lawmakers call an archaic distinction between spousal rape and other forms of sexual assault appear to have stalled for the year.
The two measures would have ended the spousal rape exception in the state’s criminal code, meaning that the rape of a spouse would be treated and punished the same as the rape of a non-spouse.
California is one of 11 states that distinguish between spousal rape and other forms of sexual assault.
Neither bill received a committee hearing before last week’s deadline.
Sen. Dave Cortese pulled his legislation because the Senate Public Safety Committee proposed amendments that advocates felt would contradict its intent. He turned his measure into a two-year bill, saying he and supporters will work on the language before moving forward next year.
His fellow Democrats, Assembly members Cristina Garcia and and Evan Low, objected Monday to their version of the bill not getting a hearing in that chamber’s public safety committee.
They called for a hearing even though the deadline has passed. They were backed by California NOW, a gender equity organization, and four progressive district attorneys, including those in Los Angeles and San Francisco.
Neither bill received a committee hearing before last week’s deadline.
Sen. Dave Cortese pulled his legislation because the Senate Public Safety Committee proposed amendments that advocates felt would contradict its intent. He turned his measure into a two-year bill, saying he and supporters will work on the language before moving forward next year.
His fellow Democrats, Assembly members Cristina Garcia and and Evan Low, objected Monday to their version of the bill not getting a hearing in that chamber’s public safety committee.
They called for a hearing even though the deadline has passed. They were backed by California NOW, a gender equity organization, and four progressive district attorneys, including those in Los Angeles and San Francisco.
Neither bill received a committee hearing before last week’s deadline.
Sen. Dave Cortese pulled his legislation because the Senate Public Safety Committee proposed amendments that advocates felt would contradict its intent. He turned his measure into a two-year bill, saying he and supporters will work on the language before moving forward next year.
His fellow Democrats, Assembly members Cristina Garcia and and Evan Low, objected Monday to their version of the bill not getting a hearing in that chamber’s public safety committee.
They called for a hearing even though the deadline has passed. They were backed by California NOW, a gender equity organization, and four progressive district attorneys, including those in Los Angeles and San Francisco.