California is sticking with its traditional cash bail system, rejecting a nation-leading move to rely instead on risk assessments to decide which suspects should remain jailed awaiting trial. With ...

At 34, Isaac Miller’s future looked bleak. He was facing detention, a seven-year prison sentence, and a $50,000 bail. Without his family’s savings, he said he didn’t know how he would have paid his ...

California voters by a referendum overturned a 2018 law that aimed to end the practice of requiring many criminal defendants to post cash bail as a condition of leaving jail before trial. Proposition ...

If California law required a simple majority of the Legislature to pass the state budget, lawmakers would have far less difficulty passing an annual budget by the June 15 deadline set forth by the ...

Proposition 25 is the latest weapon against Proposition 13, but backers don’t want voters to know it. Statewide polls taken in recent years consistently show Proposition 13 to be as popular as it was ...