The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors unanimously approved a motion Tuesday aimed at improving the county’s restraining order system in order to better support and protect victims of domestic violence and stalking. The measure, which was co-authored by Supervisors Lindsey Horvath and Hilda Solis, also begins the process of officially making gender-based violence and intimate partner violence a “Board-directed priority” and calls on county agencies to identify millions of dollars of funding to help bolster the efforts.

No one disputes that Victor Grandy is an artist, a skill he picked up while serving 26 years in federal prison for selling cocaine. Since his release in 2019, the then-62-year-old painter and sculptor has had his work displayed in exhibits in California and Europe. But he’s not been able to see his own work in person because a federal judge ruled that he remains under law enforcement supervision. On Thursday, however, the 9th U.S.

(Subscription required) Over 30 employment-related bills reportedly were approved in the 2025-2026 California legislative session and signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom. Practice and firm leaders pointed to laws involving gig worker unionization, anti-hate speech rules, and AI's use in surveillance and discipline in the workplace as laws that could spike demand.

Gov. Gavin Newsom’s commutations of death sentences marked how far California has changed on criminal justice over three decades. Yet the death penalty remains part of a contradictory status quo.