SACRAMENTO – California State Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez (D-San Diego) has announced human trafficking reforms that would for the first time in California, treat the buying and selling of sex separately, increasing penalties for those purchasing sex while decriminalizing prostitution for minors who are by definition being victimized. Assembly Bill 1708 would require a minimum fine and…
SACRAMENTO – Saturday, Gov. Jerry Brown signed into law a bill authored by California State Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez (D-San Diego) to prohibit law enforcement officers of the opposite sex to be in sight of a strip search being conducted at any juvenile detention center in California. After a local media outlet reported the practice had occurred…
SACRAMENTO – A bill by California State Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez (D-San Diego) to extend protections against immigration fraud related to President Obama’s immigration reform Executive Order was signed by Gov. Jerry Brown today following unanimous bipartisan support in the Assembly and Senate. The law takes effect immediately. AB 60 closes an unanticipated loophole in a 2013 law authored by…
SACRAMENTO – California State Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez (D-San Diego) introduced Assembly Bill 202 today to treat cheerleaders of professional sports teams as employees under California law, a move that will better protect cheer athletes in the state from workplace abuses and bring equity to the multibillion-dollar professional sports landscape. Recent attention to the issue from…
