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Over the past few years, California lawmakers have tried to move past their tough-on-crime history. Voters and lawmakers have spent decades supporting strict criminal penalties and lengthy prison sentences. More recently, however, there has been a push to shrink the number of people incarcerated, ease punishments for those convicted of property and drug crimes, and expand parole. On the November 2020 ballot was California Proposition 25, which, if passed, would uphold 2018 Senate Bill 10, changing the cash bail system to a risk management system. However, the measure was rejected. Regardless, state prosecutors will aggressively pursue charges against you, because their goal is to gain a conviction. If you’re accused of a crime in California, you need an aggressive criminal…

In 2014, the State of California passed a gun violence restraining order law in response to the Isla Vista shooting. The law allows immediate family members to petition a judge to order the temporary removal of guns from an individual who may be making threats of violence. Since then, San Diego County has relied on the law more than any other county in the state to confiscate weapons from people considered a threat to themselves or others. Since 2017, San Diego County has issued more than 300 gun violence restraining orders. These orders have been used to confiscate weapons in a variety of cases, including in cases of domestic violence, suicide threats, and mental illness. In 2019 alone, police responded…

California became the first state in the nation to issue a Stay at Home order for all 40 million residents on Thursday, March 19, 2020 in the midst of the coronavirus epidemic. Gov. Gavin Newson issued the order, which supersedes local orders, and the State of Emergency was declared as early as March 4.  The deadly coronavirus is the cause of COVID-19, an illness that’s quickly spreading across the United States and threatening the lives of people of all ages. Currently, California has surpassed 16,000 cases, and there have been almost 100 deaths. The goal of the stay at home order is to help mitigate the spread of the virus, which may be transferred from infected persons who don’t show…