The data showing if retail theft spiked – already an underreported theft – is less clear. Commercial burglaries dropped by 9% ...

A year ago, state Democrats blocked efforts to combat and prevent retail theft, but now the Legislature has created a select committee to study its cause. Last month, lawmakers sent 10 ...

In response to growing worries about crime in California, the Democratic-controlled Legislature has passed a set of stringent ...

Proposition 36, if passed in November, would repeal a 10-year-old ballot initiative that reduced penalties for certain drug ...

Supporters say the bill aims to decrease retail theft by increasing the number of workers in self-checkout areas. Opponents ...

Last year, he signed 890 bills and ... on suspicion of retail theft even if the officer does not witness the crime. AB 3039, authored by Assemblymember Reggie Jones-Sawyer (D-Los Angeles), would ...

If members of the California Senate and Assembly are so eager to be involved in the day to day management of stores, then I ...

The California Legislature is nearing a deadline this week to pass several new bills and send them to the governor’s desk.

SB 707, the Responsible Textile Recovery Act of 2024, has cleared both houses of the State Legislature and is on its way to ...

For California laws, the buck does really stop at Gov. Gavin Newsom’s desk. While the Legislature approved hundreds of bills before ending its regular session on Aug. 31, Newsom decides whether they ...

Trump has fixated on a caricature of Harris’ deep-blue home state as a lawless hellscape. Here’s how California could play a ...

Rachel Michelin, the president of the California Retailers ... half of lawmakers who authored the bills that passed last month said they believed retail theft grew as a dominant theme in part ...