California passed Proposition 36 — a tough-on-crime measure that imposes harsher sentences on low-level offenses like drug ...

Crime has been a see-saw issue in California for most of the last 40 years. Leniency was the vogue for awhile recently. But ...

A new crime-fighting ballot measure offers tools to get help for people with addiction, District Attorney Summer Stephan says ...

Here's how California voted on statewide measures in the 2024 election, including Proposition 36 on retail theft and fentanyl ...

California voters are projected by the Associated Press to approve a measure that would broadly increase penalties for fentanyl dealers and theft crimes.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom strongly opposed Proposition 36. He claims it will bring California back to the 1980s when mass ...

With the measure headed for victory. Southern California prosecutors say their goal is to protect residents and not to fill ...

Frustrated with what they see as rampant retail crimes, voters approved an initiative making shoplifting a felony for repeat ...

WELL, CALIFORNIA VOTERS HAD TEN PROPOSITIONS TO ... LISA, LET’S START WITH PROPOSITION 36, WHICH ASKED VOTERS TO RAMP UP THE CONSEQUENCES FOR FENTANYL AND THEFT RELATED CRIMES.

The law will reclassify some misdemeanor theft and drug crimes as felonies, creating a new category of crime called 'treatment-mandated felony.' ...

A ballot measure that will roll back some of California's most controversial soft-on-crime policies has overwhelmingly passed in the deep blue state. Proposition 36, the Homelessness, Drug ...

FRESNO COUNTY, Calif. (KFSN) -- California voters overwhelmingly passed Proposition 36 on Tuesday. The law will reclassify some misdemeanor theft and drug crimes as felonies, creating a new ...