state budget

Have we not learned our lesson from COVID-19? Why we can’t cut state investments in public health

Holly J. Mitchell, Los Angeles County Supervisor 2nd DistrictMay 31, 2024

The COVID-19 pandemic provided painful lessons on how health disparities worsen and can become fatal in times of crisis for Black, Brown, and Indigenous communities and people of color who continue to be disproportionately impacted by health challenges due to systemic racism.

Opinion Religion

Thousands of Prison Inmates Are Being Released Into Local Communities

Bishop Noel Jones, Pastor, City of RefugeJanuary 25, 2018

According to California Board of State and Community Corrections (BSCC) data, thousands of prisoners were released early into local communities as a result of the California Public Safety Realignment Act (AB 109) and related state laws including Propositions 47 and 57, which reduced various felonies to misdemeanors, decreased prosecutions of parole violations, and shifted 35,000 inmates to local county jails.