California is sticking with its traditional cash bail system, rejecting a nation-leading move to rely instead on risk assessments to decide which suspects should remain jailed awaiting trial. With ...

Proposition 25 is the latest weapon against Proposition 13, but backers don’t want voters to know it. Statewide polls taken in recent years consistently show Proposition 13 to be as popular as it was ...

At 34, Isaac Miller’s future looked bleak. He was facing detention, a seven-year prison sentence, and a $50,000 bail. Without his family’s savings, he said he didn’t know how he would have paid his ...

Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., on Monday, Nov. 3, 2025. D.C. could adopt California’s Proposition 25: lawmakers forfeit pay for each day budgets lapse, a reform to reduce shutdowns and restore ...

If California law required a simple majority of the Legislature to pass the state budget, lawmakers would have far less difficulty passing an annual budget by the June 15 deadline set forth by the ...

The criminal justice system – the focus of nationwide protests in the past few months – would be especially altered in California by three of the statewide propositions on the November 3 ballot.