Government,
Criminal
Sep. 17, 2019
Bill strengthening parole rules passes Legislature by avoiding sentence enhancement
The first week of September saw an unusual display of consensus between the California Legislature’s Democrats and Republicans, when a Republican-authored bill that introduced stricter parole criteria for sexual offenders easily passed and was signed into law by the governor.
The first week of September saw an unusual display of consensus between the California Legislature's Democrats and Republicans, when a Republican-authored bill that introduced stricter parole criteria for sexual offenders easily passed and was signed into law by the governor.
The key to success, according to the Republican senator who authored the bill and the district attorney who backed it, lay in avoiding a type of policy that h...
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