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'It's so pervasive': California hate crimes soared 20% in 2022, report shows

LOS ANGELES — Hate crimes soared in California in 2022, with year-over-year rises recorded in incidents targeting virtually every demographic group, according to a report released Tuesday.

Los Angeles Times

Hate crimes rose 20.2% in California in 2022

Reported hate crimes increased in California in 2022, including instances of violence motivated by bias

The Independent UK

States fight to save books from growing number of bans across U.S.

Illinois this week became the first state to pass a law penalizing libraries that ban books.

Axios

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Retail theft keeps climbing. California attorney general tries a new tactic to fight it

California Attorney General Rob Bonta on Tuesday announced a new partnership between the Justice Department and more than a dozen retailers and online marketplaces to crack down on organized retail crime in the state.

Los Angeles Times

Bused from Texas to LA: Little food, sketchy bathroom facilities for 20 hours on the road

LOS ANGELES — As the bus full of migrants prepared to embark June 13 on a more than 20-hour journey from Texas to Los Angeles, the passengers were offered bags of chips, water and energy bars.

Los Angeles Times

‘State-sanctioned kidnapping’: Texas sheriff aids probe into new DeSantis migrant flights

The Texas sheriff who last week recommended criminal charges for those behind Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ so-called migrant relocation program is collaborating with California authorities who announced a similar criminal investigation following recent flights that brought migrants from El Paso to Sacramento.

McClatchy Washington Bureau

California officials urged to help migrants flown to Sacramento secure visas for crime victims

More than four dozen immigrant rights groups sent a letter Wednesday to California Atty. Gen. Rob Bonta, urging him to help 36 migrants who were flown to Sacramento by Florida contractors secure visas to remain in the U.S.

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California AG demands Florida and DeSantis release records on Sacramento migrant flights

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California Attorney General Rob Bonta on Wednesday demanded more answers for the two private flights that ferried 36 Latin American migrants to Sacramento earlier this month, issuing a public records request to Florida authorities including the office of Gov. Ron DeSantis, who has taken credit for the…

Tribune News Service

Newsom: DeSantis "kidnapping" migrants

California Department of Justice investigating whether dozens of migrants were tricked into flying to Sacramento

Salon

Florida officials share video boasting of role in California migrant flights amid calls to charge DeSantis

California Governor Gavin Newsom suggested bringing kidnapping charges against DeSantis

The Independent UK

Florida confirms it was behind flights that left asylum seekers in California

Officials claim the people, mostly from Colombia and Venezuela, consented to the travel, refuting allegations from Gavin Newsom

The Guardian - US

Charges over DeSantis' migrant stunt

"State-sanctioned kidnapping is not a public policy choice, it is immoral and disgusting," Calif. AG Rob Bonta says

Salon

Gavin Newsom suggests kidnap charges over Ron DeSantis’s migrant flights

California governor calls presidential hopeful a ‘small, pathetic man’

The Independent UK

Texas sheriff recommends criminal charges over DeSantis migrant flights

District attorney could weigh felony charges of unlawful restraint over Martha’s Vineyard flights in 2022

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California investigating whether DeSantis involved in flying asylum-seekers from Texas to Sacramento

Officials are investigating whether Florida’s Gov. Ron DeSantis was behind a flight that picked up asylum-seekers on the Texas border and flew them — apparently without their knowledge — to California’s capital, even as faith-based groups scrambled to find housing and food for them

The Texas Tribune

Sheriff files criminal charges over Florida’s transport of migrants from San Antonio to Massachusetts

The Bexar County Sheriff’s Office didn’t say who it has accused of unlawful restraint in connection with last year’s flight to Martha’s Vineyard paid for by Florida. On Monday, California announced it’s investigating similar flights from El Paso to Sacramento.

Al Jazeera

‘Pathetic man’: California gov slams DeSantis over migrant flight

Top California official suggests Florida governor guilty of kidnapping after asylum seekers flown to US state’s capital.

The Independent UK

California officials probe ‘state-sanctioned kidnapping’ of migrants flown in on private jet

The migrants reportedly were found with documentation claiming to be from the Florida state government

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The Independent UK

California attorney general blames Florida for charter flight that took migrants to Sacramento

Florida appears to have arranged for a group of South American migrants to be transported from Texas to California and dropped off in Sacramento

Reason

Trump-Appointed Judge Rules Tennessee's Anti-Drag Law Unconstitutional

Plus: Librarians take on Arkansas book restrictions, another migrant stunt may have originated in Florida, and more...

The Independent UK

Charles Manson follower Leslie Van Houten entitled to parole by California court, overruling Gavin Newsom

A California appeals court says Charles Manson follower Leslie Van Houten should be let out of prison on parole

The Independent UK

Manson follower Leslie Van Houten should be paroled, California appeals court rules

A California appeals court says Charles Manson follower Leslie Van Houten should be let out of prison on parole

Tribune News Service

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NC House to take up medical marijuana bill, after weeks of uncertainty

Los Angeles Times

Walmart illegally sold brass knuckles to Californians. Now it will pay $500,000 fine

LOS ANGELES -- Walmart has agreed to pay $500,000 to settle allegations that it illegally sold brass knuckles to Californians through its website, according to state Attorney General Rob Bonta.

Tribune News Service

California fines Walmart $500,000 over illegal online brass knuckle sales

Walmart will pay $500,000 to settle California authorities’ claims that the retail giant sold brass knuckles illegal in the state through its website, Attorney General Rob Bonta said Tuesday.

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