The most visible gaps are in settings where students may already feel distant from traditional recognition. In 2024–25, just one juvenile court, one community day, and two opportunity schools awarded the Seal, and standalone special education schools did not participate. If the SSCE is meant to expand civic opportunity, ensuring that it reaches these contexts will require flexible pathways and targeted implementation support.

The sheriff had no authority “to seize hundreds of thousands of lawfully cast ballots under the guise of a criminal investigation,” lawyers for the UCLA Voting Rights Project and former state Attorney General Xavier Becerra argued in a filing with the court on behalf o

Div. Five of the First District Court of Appeal has rejected the view that a California Department of Motor Vehicles hearing violated a petitioner’s due process rights because the presiding administrative officer ruled on evidentiary objections relating to documents that the same adjudicator moved to introduce.

The Court of Appeal for this district held yesterday that in determining whether someone, acting in pro per, has lost five “litigations” in the past seven years—qualifying that person for adjudication as a “vexatious litigant”—a denial of a petition for review in the California Supreme Court is to be counted.