Some of those affected retirees are urging the pension board to instead apply the new rules only to people who left civil service after 2020 — when the

The Senate Appropriations Committee did not call Senate Bill 662 for a vote before a procedural deadline last Friday, effectively killing it. Introduced by Sen. Susan Rubio, Democrat of Baldwin Park, the bill would have lifted the state’s ban on electronic recording in civil family, juvenile justice and dependency cases, making it an option when court reporters were unavailable.

(Subscription required) “I never imagined I would fear for the future of American Democracy,” Chemerinsky told an audience at McGeorge School of Law in Sacramento on Wednesday night. “But I can tell you that as this New Year came, I have never felt more trepidation of the future of this country.”

Public Services Director Lars Ewing presented a resolution and a contract with Staten Solar Corp., totaling $2,284,131, for design, installation and commissioning of the new solar installation to the board at its Jan. 9 meeting. The planned solar array will serve the courthouse, District Attorney’s Office and the courthouse museum, which Ewing said are all served through the same meter.