Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a package of laws that aim to check federal agents during the Trump administration’s deportation program and improve conditions in detention centers. Several likely will be challenged in court.

Private prison company CoreCivic will continue operating two large ICE detention centers in California after selling the properties to the Department of Homeland Security.

If you can’t easily consume it, having marijuana in your car does not give California police the right to search the vehicle.

U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer called the Los Angeles deployment of National Guard troops by President Trump ‘profoundly un-American.’

Criminal penalties for filing false claims against police officers were enacted 30 years ago, but the state Supreme Court says the Los Angeles Police Department's warnings about this law could discourage complaints.

Research shows worksite immigration raids can depress local economies as people stay home and stop spending money. So far, they aren’t known to free up jobs for citizens.

President Donald Trump today began sweeps to deport undocumented immigrants arrested on suspicion of various crimes, a move that is dividing California sheriffs.

Was the former California attorney general and San Francisco DA too soft on crime? Or too tough?

California Highway Patrol officers received historically high raises in 2022 and 2023, but it continues to face a high vacancy rate of 16%.

Locking up a California state prisoner for one year costs nearly twice as much as tuition at the state’s top private universities. The number surged during the COVID-19 pandemic, and remains high because of inmate medical costs and pay boosts for prison guards and other workers.

A proposed California law that is part of a larger package of gun control bills would allow the attorney general to sue gun manufacturers over marketing practices.

California has twice extended the statute of limitations on child sex abuse claims, prompting nine state Catholic bishops to ask the U.S. Supreme Court to declare the law unconstitutional.