safety

Hidden Dangers Also Come in Disguise During Halloween Season

Former First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt famously said it is better to light a candle than curse the darkness.
This Halloween season, it is even better — and much safer — if those candles are flameless since nearly 40 percent of the 860 home decoration fires (excluding Christmas trees) annually begin with candles, according to the National Fire Protection Association.

The California Highway Patrol: Safety, Service, Security, and Community Engagement

Since the inception of the California Highway Patrol in 1929, its motto has been “Safety, Service, and Security.”  And yet, most California citizens do not know exactly what this means. Security Let’s start with the security element.  The CHP has the responsibility for investigating all crimes that occur on state property, and protection of state buildings and assets like the capitol building and bridges like the Golden Gate and Vincent Thomas Bridge. The CHP Judicial Protection Section protects the justices of the California Supreme Court and Appellate Court.  The CHP works in tandem with the Secret Service to provide the

Sexual Assault on California College Campuses

Mike Gipson Joint oversight hearing on progress toward protecting UC and CSU students Assemblymember Mike A. Gipson (D-Carson), chair of the Joint Legislative Audit Committee (JLAC), conducted an oversight hearing to update the status of recommendations made in a 2014 report by the State Auditor regarding sexual violence at California Universities. The hearing brought together the Assembly Committee on Higher Education and Select Committee on Campus Climate, chaired respectively by Assemblymember Jose Medina and Assemblymember Shirley Weber. “While our universities continue to take measures to improve student safety, recent studies show that 1 in 4 women who attended college in