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Feb 2010

California Supreme Court upholds state enforcement of sex offender ban

Voter-approved limits on where sex offenders can live may be enforced on parolees who committed their sex crimes long before Jessica's Law passed, the California Supreme Court ruled Monday. But the court did not clarify what happens once...

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Feb 2010

What Obama's budget plan may mean for California

Reporting from Washington - California stands to receive more than $1 billion from President Obama's budget plan to help cover healthcare for the poor and the cost of jailing illegal immigrants. The budget proposal includes $25 billion in...

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Feb 2010

CHP union exec: lower pensions for new hires?

The chief executive of the trendsetting California Highway Patrol union told a CalPERS forum last week that he is thinking about negotiating lower pension benefits for new hires, a move to protect them from a greater rollback by a future...

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Feb 2010

Beck wants cameras in LAPD patrol cars ASAP

Nearly two decades after the Rodney King beating prompted demands for heightened monitoring of LAPD officers, city officials were told Monday of a renewed effort to get video cameras installed patrol cars. Police Chief Charlie Beck has...