California Attorney General Xavier Becerra said Thursday that he won't release older records on state law enforcement agents' misconduct despite a recently released appeals court ruling that they are public documents.
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State Sen. Nancy Skinner, D-Berkeley, who sponsored S.B. 1421, ripped Livingston.
"The new law, SB1421 by Sen. Nancy Skinner, D-Berkeley, allows members of the public to obtain records of police disciplinary agencies that found officers had committed sexual assault or engaged in dishonest conduct at work, and of all investigations of an officer’s use of a firearm or of some type of deadly force."
In a recognition of her work as a judge and efforts on progressive justice reform, Contra Costa County District Attorney Diana Becton was honored as this year’s “Woman of the Year” by one of the East Bay’s state senators.
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“The steep decline of juvenile crime is very good news and represents a profound shift for California,” state Sen. Nancy Skinner, D-Berkeley,
Sen. Nancy Skinner (D-Berkeley) has introduced Senate Bill 330 to do away with many city and county restrictions on homebuilding for a decade — a response, she’s said, to the scope of the state’s housing challenges.
State Senator Nancy Skinner has joined in on the efforts to call for an audit of the Alameda County sheriff’s office, amidst recent controversies, including a woman who gave birth in jail cell alone.