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A San Diego Superior Court ruling that invalidates an Oceanside referendum could boost efforts to meet a statewide housing shortage, but it also may imperil the increasing use of citizen ballot initiatives to stop development projects.
Judge Richard S. Whitney based his decision on Government Code 66300, also known as the Housing Crisis Act of 2019, which was written to “maximize the development of housing” as California works to solve its problems with rapidly rising rents, homelessness and real estate costs.
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10:41 AM, May. 18, 2021An earlier version of this story incorrectly described the group Preserve Wild Santee. It is an environmentally based political action committee.
California s new Attorney General Rob Bonta. | Noah Berger / AP
California’s new Attorney General, Rob Bonta, took the podium at his first news conference on May 11 to announce the formation of a Racial Justice Bureau, charged with addressing bias and hate “at their roots” and strengthening responses to hate crimes throughout the state.
The Bureau, which will initially bring together six new attorneys and a new deputy attorney general as part of the Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Enforcement Section, comes into being as Californians throughout the state deal with a pandemic-related surge of hate crimes against Asian Americans, white supremacist activity, and repeated instances of police violence.
AG Bonta opens investigation into Vallejo police killing of Sean Monterrosa and slams Solano County DA
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Ashley Monterrosa holds a photo of her hugging her brother Sean Monterrosa at Sean’s 2016 graduation, Thursday, June 4, 2020, in San Francisco, Calif. Her brother Sean Monterrosa, 22, was fatally shot by Vallejo police. State Attorney General Rob Bonta said his office would review the killing for possible criminal charges against the officers involved.Santiago Mejia/The Chronicle
State Attorney General Rob Bonta announced Thursday that the Department of Justice will review the Vallejo Police Department killing of Sean Monterrosa, an action both his predecessor and Solano County District Attorney Krishna Abrams had refused to do.
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State Sen. Steven Bradford likened the movement to “a tidal wave.” | Irfan Khan/Los Angeles Times via AP
California s police reform push remains challenging despite leftward shift
But they still have a tough road ahead.
An early legislative battle between Democrats offered a reminder of the issue’s thorny politics, even in a deep-blue state and cast a shadow on other policing bills, from a new duty-to-intercede standard to expanded misconduct disclosure requirements.
Moderate Democrats nearly blocked a closely watched officer decertification bill in a committee hearing last month, an open display of the power struggle between progressives and law enforcement-aligned moderate Democrats. That bill and nearly a dozen other reform proposals will test the power of a national reckoning that has gained momentum in the wake of George Floyd’s death last summer at the hands of Derek Chauvin, a former Minneapolis police officer who was convicte