In February of 2014, Assemblyman Tom Ammiano and I co-chaired an informational hearing on the need to reform solitary confinement in California prisons. This hearing was entitled: “California ...

East Bay Assemblywoman Loni Hancock on Wednesday became the first state legislator in California to launch a Web log, saying it would help her communicate with and get input from constituents. Hancock ...

SACRAMENTO Calif. (Reuters) - A bill aimed at easing some conditions for inmates in near-solitary confinement in California prisons has died in the state legislature amid concerns that Democratic ...

Legislators intervene in hopes of bringing an end to the hunger strike. Sept. 4, 2013— -- As a hunger strike across California prisons enters a third month, two state legislators are vowing to ...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Part of a river draining the central Sierra Nevada could win new protections from a wild-and-scenic designation under a bill approved by the state Senate on Thursday, despite ...

Two months after hundreds of seabirds coated in mysterious goo turned up in the East Bay, lawmakers are trying to recover some of the cost. On Monday, California senators Mark Leno (D-San Francisco) ...

State officials have delayed cleanup of a marsh on a chemical waste site near the popular Point Isabel regional park on the Richmond shoreline, near the site where a Marin developer wants to build ...

SACRAMENTO (BCN) — Both houses of the California Legislature have unanimously passed a bill that would bring more oversight to the construction industry by requiring contractors to disclose felony ...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — The state Senate on Wednesday rejected a bill that sought to tie California’s corporate tax rate to executive compensation in an effort to address the growing wealth gap. By ...