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47. Responding to Salas's bill, Republican state lawmakers proposed repealing Proposition 47, highlighting the ongoing debate and division surrounding the measure's impact on crime and public safety. [21] Rachel Michelin, the President of the California Retailers' Association, highlights the unintended outcomes of Proposition 47.
Before Proposition 47, if you carried drugs of any weight, otherwise known as simple drug possession, it could have been considered either a felony or a misdemeanor. When Proposition 47 passed ...
California Democrats now have their own version of a ballot measure that would change elements of Proposition 47, setting up a November duel with a district attorney-backed theft and drug ...
California leaders are pushing lawmakers to get on board with their own version of Proposition 47 changes by Wednesday. California Democrats got dragged into changing Prop. 47 — even though many ...
California Proposition 47 may refer to either of the following ballot initiatives in California: California Proposition 47 (2002) measure providing for the sale of $13 billion in bonds for education. California Proposition 47 (2014) measure reducing the criminal penalties on many nonviolent drug and property crimes from felonies to misdemeanors.
The group’s ballot measure aims to make changes to Proposition 47, an initiative voters approved in 2014. It loosened penalties for some crimes involving drugs or theft and set a $950 threshold ...
Possession under HS 11350 was formerly a prosecuted as a misdemeanor or felony with up to 3 years in prison, but Proposition 47 made simple possession for personal use a misdemeanor only. In practice, those charged with cocaine possession will in most cases be given an opportunity to plead guilty and receive no jail time under PC 1000, Prop 36 ...
But a version of that policy, known as Alexandra’s Law, made it into a hastily constructed ballot measure from Gov. Gavin Newsom to amend Proposition 47 — a 2014 voter-approved law that made ...