Long Beach, CA — As former Chair of the California Senate Transportation Committee, Senator Lena Gonzalez (D-Long Beach) played a key role in advancing and shaping California’s speed safety pilot program under Assembly Bill 645, authored by Assemblymember Laura Friedman. The program is designed to improve public safety in communities impacted by dangerous speeding.  
 

Sacramento, CA – Senate Bill 694, authored by Senator Bob Archuleta (D-Pico Rivera), co-authored by Assemblymember Pilar Schiavo (D-Santa Clarita) and Senator Sabrina Cervantes (D-Riverside), and co-sponsored by Attorney General Rob Bonta, has passed the California State Senate with bipartisan support and now is on the Governor’s desk for signature.

SACRAMENTO – Today, the California State Senate approved Senate Bill 300, authored by Senator Steve Padilla (D-San Diego). Last year, Senator Padilla authored SB 243, which created the nation’s first guardrails for artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots. SB 300 would build on this effort by further strengthening the protections against exposing minors to sexually explicit material.

SACRAMENTO – Sen. Catherine S. Blakespear, D-Encinitas, issued the following statement on Monday about the killing of Minneapolis resident Alex Pretti by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency:

SACRAMENTO – La Senadora Catherine S. Blakespear, D-Encinitas, emitió el lunes la siguiente declaración sobre el asesinato de Alex Pretti, residente de Minneapolis, en manos del Servicio de Inmigración y Control de Aduanas de Estados Unidos:

We cannot turn away and ignore what our eyes are clearly seeing all across this nation - a federal government unhinged.
Violent raids are happening routinely. It’s unfathomably cruel. Yesterday, a nurse, last week a poet… children used as bait - in the United States of America.
It’s heartbreaking to see the terror that our own federal government is willingly unleashing in our communities.
California will never stop fighting for kindness and decency. This is a decidedly dark and inhumane time in our country.
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Senator Susan Rubio gives the following statement:
This week alone, we have witnessed a horrifying escalation of federal immigration enforcement that has resulted in the loss of human life — yet again.
Today, Alex Jeffrey Pretti— a U.S citizen was killed during an  ICE operation. It has become a common occurrence that U.S born children are taken scared and unaccompanied by agents. Most recently the images of a five-year-old little boy has broken the hearts of millions.

SANTA ANA, Calif. — Today, Senator Thomas J. Umberg (D–Santa Ana), Chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, released the following statement regarding the latest shooting by immigration enforcement officials and increased ICE activity in Orange County.

In Monterey Park, concerned residents want answers to determine how a data center of this size might strain the power grid including its impact on utility rates, water usage, and air quality contamination

Sacramento, CA – Senator Bob Archuleta (D-Pico Rivera) has announced the introduction of SB 907, which will strengthen California’s DUI enforcement and sentencing laws, particularly for repeat offenders. Having lost his eldest grandchild to a drunk driver, Senator Archuleta hopes to use his families’ tragedy to improve California’s DUI laws for other families.