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Derrick Sanderlin, a tenant organizer with Sacred Heart Community Service, joined tenants protesting evictions at the Santa Clara County Superior Court in early 2021 in this file photo. California has extended eviction protections for millions of residents, but advocates fear it’s too little and too late to help thousands of San Jose tenants on the brink of losing their homes. Lt. Governor El...

After exactly 35 years in law enforcement, Mission police Chief Robert Dominguez is ready for retirement. The city thanked Dominguez — who joined the Mission Police Department on April 6, 1987 — with a retirement ceremony at the Mission Event Center on Wednesday afternoon. “Probably some police chiefs won’t like this, but just about anybody can be a police chief,” said former Mission police C...

RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — Gov. Glenn Youngkin has signed over 100 new bills into law, including measures that will bring changes for Virginia’s Board of Education, Parole Board, voting system and local schools. Gov. Youngkin has until April 11 to approve or reject the bills passed during the 2022 General Assembly session. Youngkin’s office announced Friday that he has signed over 100 new bills, ...

Assembly Bill 979 (the Bill), signed into law by Gov. Newsom on September 30, 2020, required all public companies with a principal executive office in California to have at least one director from an underrepresented community on their board of directors by December 31, 2021, and, depending on the total number of directors on the company’s board, up to three directors from underrepresented co...

Sacramento mass shooting: Suspect in custody 00:00 00:0002:10GO LIVE Facebook Twitter Email Embed SpeedNormal Autoplay A suspect arrested in connection with last weekend's mass shooting outside bars in Sacramento served less than half his 10-year sentence because of voter-approved changes to state law that lessened the punishment for his felony convictions and provided a chance for earlier...

The Alabama Legislature passed its own version of Florida’s “Don’t Say Gay” law Thursday after a surprise amendment to a transgender bathroom bill. Thursday morning, the last day of the legislative session, Sen. Shay Shelnutt, R-Trussville, introduced an amendment that would prohibit classroom instruction or discussion on sexual orientation or gender identity for grades K-5. The amendment mir...

The Mexican Supreme Court of Justice (SCJ) on April 7, 2022, discussed the constitutionality of the Electric Power Industry Legislation (ley de la industria eléctrica),1 against which many amparo trials (constitutional challenges) were filed and are still pending resolution.2 Against the interest of private investors, who see this legislation as contrary to their interests, the SCJ did not re...

Culture & Society Allison Byrd flew to Warsaw last month to educate people fleeing Ukraine on how to avoid human trafficking. Byrd passing cards through a fence to refugees leaving Ukraine. The cards included information about how to avoid human trafficking.Courtesy photo With a half-hour to wait before her train was set to leave for Krakow, Allison Byrd decided to spend this time at War...

Left, Ketanji Brown Jackson addresses her nomination to the Supreme Court (Photo courtesy of the White House); right, Professor Kimberly Robinson. (Photo by Dan Addison, University Communications) fter the U.S. Senate voted Thursday afternoon to confirm judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to the U.S. Supreme Court, Kimberly Robinson, a University of Virginia law professor, tried to call her friend, b...

MADISON, Wis. – Rep. Joel Kitchens (R-Sturgeon Bay) is proud that his bipartisan bill that allows the Town of Gibraltar to create a tax incremental district has been signed into law. The town is seeking the TID to pay for the installation of sanitary sewer lines and an interceptor that will service more than 100 proposed workforce housing units. The interceptor will also open up additional la...