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State will remove tracking devices from paroled gang members

Written on 25 Jun, 2011 in Daily Briefs | 11 comments

California prison officials plan to remove GPS tracking devices from hundreds of paroled gang members in an effort to save money in the state’s troubled budget. [Sacramento Bee] The department of corrections will cut its monitoring program by more than... (Continue reading)

Pending home sales up

Written on 21 Jun, 2011 in Daily Briefs | 2 comments

Pending home sales in California rose in May, marking the first year-over-year increase in a year and a half, according to the California Association of Realtors (CAR). The association’s pending home sales index was 118.3 in May, up 1.6 percent from... (Continue reading)

California death penalty cases cost $184 million each year

Written on 21 Jun, 2011 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 16 comments

California death penalty cases cost $184 million each year Since California reinstated the death penalty in 1978, the state’s taxpayers have spent more than $4 billion on capital punishment. The state has carried out 13 executions since then, or about... (Continue reading)

California lawmakers pass budget on time

Written on 16 Jun, 2011 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 23 comments

California lawmakers raced up to the deadline Wednesday to send a budget proposal to Gov. Jerry Brown that contains further cuts to education, additional fees and many of the “gimmicks” that he repeatedly pledged to avoid in order to close... (Continue reading)

Americans die younger than other nations

Written on 15 Jun, 2011 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 40 comments

Americans are living longer than ever before, but compared with the healthiest nations in the world, their life expectancy is shorter and falling behind. Even Californians, who fare better than the national average, are living shorter lives than their peers... (Continue reading)

California city managers paid more than Brown

Written on 13 Jun, 2011 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 25 comments

Katie Lichtig gets $308,408 in total compensation as the manager of San Luis Obispo, a city with about 700 employees and 41,000 residents. That’s almost twice the salary of the governor, responsible for 44,000 employees and 37 million people. [Bloomberg]... (Continue reading)

Two California cities put circumcision ban on ballot

Written on 6 Jun, 2011 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 29 comments

Proposals to ban the circumcision of male children will appear on the November ballots in several California cities, the first public votes on a subject that has long been considered a family decision. [AHN] San Francisco and Santa Monica voters... (Continue reading)

Violent felons given unsupervised parole

Written on 27 May, 2011 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 10 comments

Prison officials allowed 450 violent convicts to be placed on unsupervised parole last year prompted a sharp exchange between the department of corrections and the inspector general’s office, according to a California audit. [CaliforniaWatch] A report released Wednesday by Inspector... (Continue reading)

Sentencing reform key to prisoner reduction plan

Written on 23 May, 2011 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 13 comments

California is most likely to dramatically shrink its inmate population by changing who goes to prison in the first place, not by mass release of convicted felons. [CaliforniaWatch] The U.S. Supreme Court this morning narrowly upheld an appellate court ruling... (Continue reading)

California cuts $170 million from pension costs

Written on 19 May, 2011 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 5 comments

California is slated to save $170 million in pension fund payments mostly because new union contracts shift some of the costs to state worker. [MercuryNews] New agreements with unions have boosted employee contributions by anywhere from two percent to five... (Continue reading)