The California Department of Justice defended its withholding of police misconduct files before a panel of three state appellate justices Thursday, insisting that compliance with a landmark transparency law would place undue strain on agency resources.
Read moreFor more than a year, the California Department of Justice has been investigating Facebook’s privacy practices, trying to determine whether it violated California law in granting third parties broad access to user data against their wishes.
Read moreCalifornia’s Justice Department will begin releasing police misconduct records created before Jan. 1, 2019, California Attorney General Xavier Becerra announced Friday under a new police transparency law that garnered the ire of police unions across the state.
Read moreCalifornia Attorney General Xavier Becerra sued the Trump administration Monday over a federal rule that blocks more than half a million in-home health care workers in the Golden State from directly deducting union dues from their paychecks.
Read moreCalifornia residents who have acquired high-capacity gun magazines in the week since a federal judge found the state’s voter-approved ban on the firearms unconstitutional will be allowed to keep their weapons, but will not be able to import more into the state starting Friday at 5 p.m., a federal judge ruled Thursday in staying his order.
Read morePress and free speech advocates blasted California Attorney General Xavier Becerra on Monday over his approach to government transparency and law enforcement accountability.
Read moreCalifornia Attorney General Xavier Becerra said during the Democrats’ Spanish language response to President Donald Trump’s State of the Union that his office is prepared to take legal action if the president declares a national emergency over border wall funding.
Read moreXavier Becerra became perhaps the nation’s most influential attorney general when he was named California’s top lawyer two years ago, and has used his post atop what some call the “Resistance State” to pummel President Donald Trump’s administration with dozens of legal actions.
Read moreApple stores across California have been targeted by groups of thieves in recent months, dashing into stores wearing hoodies and snatching products from the shelves in seconds. On Thursday, however, the Golden State’s top cop said the crime spree has been thwarted with the arrests of 17 people charged with stealing over $1 million in Apple product.
Read moreAccusing one of the state’s largest health care providers of price gouging and bullying insurers, California Attorney General Xavier Becerra on Friday announced an antitrust lawsuit against Sutter Health.
Read moreThree men seeking to replace current California Attorney General Xavier Becerra took advantage of his absence from the first and only scheduled debate Wednesday to paint him as a political pawn “obsessed” with President Donald Trump.
Read moreCalifornia will fight to reinstate environmental protections recently nixed by the Trump administration at the behest of the oil industry, according to a federal lawsuit filed Wednesday.
Read moreGatorade made misleading “anti-water statements” while pushing the benefits of its sports drinks in a video game marketed to teenagers, according to a settlement announced Thursday by California’s attorney general.
Read moreCalifornia Attorney General Xavier Becerra – standing steps from the fence along the U.S.-Mexico border in San Diego – said Wednesday he and the California Coastal Commission have sued the federal government for circumventing state and federal environmental laws in order to speed up construction of the border wall.
Read moreMoving to freeze a decision by the Trump administration that could subject 200,000 young Californians to deportation, the Golden State’s attorney general on Monday announced a lawsuit against the plan to end protections for undocumented immigrants brought to the United States as children.
Read moreAccusing the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency of withholding ethics documents regarding its chief Scott Pruitt, California’s attorney general on Friday sued the regulator for failing to comply with a Freedom of Information Act request.
Read moreAfter 12 terms on Capitol Hill, Rep. Xavier Becerra will officially leave Congress for California after being confirmed Monday by the Legislature as the Golden State’s new attorney general.
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