The law is the last of 13 pieces of legislation at the center of a political saga at the state Capitol over how the state should address organized property crimes.
Gov. Gavin Newsom on Thursday signed the last of a bundle of retail theft bills crafted by Democratic lawmakers to address the rise in organized retail theft crimes that have shaken Californians. “California already has some of the strictest retail and property crime laws in the nation — and we have made them even stronger with our recent legislation,' Newsom wrote in a statement released Thursday morning.
Advocates from the Vera Institute of Justice along with a coalition of criminal justice reform organizations are alarmed that language in the bill is 'identical' to parts of Proposition 36, a November ballot measure opposed by Newsom and Rivas, and that has divided lawmakers and law enforcement across the state. If passed by voters, the initiative would reform a decade-old law that reduced sentences for low-level, nonviolent property and drug crimes.
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