“Post-COVID, retail theft surged across California. In some jurisdictions, it’s become so normalized that it’s barely reported, let alone prosecuted,” the department said.

California is stepping up its game to head off perpetrators of organized retail theft and cargo theft, whose schemes are becoming increasingly sophisticated and brazen. Attorney General Rob Bonta ...

Across Southern California, law enforcement agencies have been ramping up retail theft operations, either establishing new task forces or expanding existing ones to combat such crimes. As a result ...

The policy change comes as businesses and local governments across California face a significant surge in retail theft since the COVID-19 pandemic. According to the Public Policy Institute of ...

California Attorney General Rob Bonta announced ... The charges include one count of organized retail theft, 20 counts of grand theft and 13 counts of identity theft. The suspects allegedly ...

The California Assembly has unanimously passed a bill to ban cat declawing in the state. The bill will now go to the state senate. Assembly Bill 867 was authored by Assemblymember Alex Lee (D ...

So far this legislative session, California Democrats in the state Senate have teased a package of bills that will supposedly cut down the expensive cost of living in the Golden State — the tip ...

The fight over California’s sky-high energy bills had an obvious winner this ... the bill — one San Franciscan called it “absolute theft.” A couple expressed appreciation for the committee ...

88 to reverse the Environmental Protection Agency’s approval of a waiver to California and 11 other states to ban the sale of gas-powered vehicles by 2035. After 35 Democrats — including a ...