California voters overwhelmingly passed Proposition 36 on Tuesday. The law will reclassify some misdemeanor theft and drug crimes as felonies, creating a new category of crime called 'treatment ...
Progressive district attorneys and advocates who claimed the mantle of criminal justice reform were routed on election day in ...
Voters’ views changed on public safety after the COVID-19 pandemic. Why now: Proposition 36 passed overwhelmingly Tuesday night. It led 70% to 30% early Wednesday. What it does: Prop.
The measure partly rolls back a progressive law passed by voters in 2014 that downgraded ... we’re going to be a lot worse off than we were before.” Prop 36 would roll back a ten-year-old ...
The outcome of the state’s Proposition 36 reflected a backlash to light penalties for shoplifting and drug-related crimes — and it passed despite opposition from Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom.
KRON4's Sara Stinson reports. Read more: <a href="https://www.kron4.com/news/your-local-election-hq/california-prop-36-passed-by-voters/">https://www.kron4.com/news ...
California passed Proposition 36 — a tough-on-crime measure that imposes harsher sentences on low-level offenses like drug possession — and reform-oriented district attorneys in Los Angeles ...
LISA, LET’S START WITH PROPOSITION 36, WHICH ASKED VOTERS TO RAMP UP THE CONSEQUENCES FOR FENTANYL AND THEFT RELATED CRIMES. IT TURNS SOME MISDEMEANORS INTO FELONIES, SO THIS HAS PASSED ...
(NewsNation) — Ballots are still being counted in California, but Proposition 36 has already passed. The measure restores felony status to some nonviolent crimes like repeat shoplifting in the ...