March 31 had for years been a state holiday honoring Cesar Chávez, until revelations of sexual abuse by Chávez earlier this month prompted cancellation of many events and the renaming of others.

The county statement followed Wednesday's announcement by San Jose Mayor Matt Mahan that the city was canceling all César Chávez Day events, in light of the sex abuse allegations.

The law creates an array of measures to educate school staff, beef up reporting requirements and stop teachers credibly accused of abuse from getting jobs at other districts.

The lawsuit claimed that the Campbell district, which includes Leigh High School, failed to protect the girl from Shawn Thomas, then a Leigh teacher and Los Gatos High School coach, who is alleged to have impregnated and forced her to have an abortion when she was a 15-year-old high school freshman.

The suspect, 60-year-old Christina Jean Johnson, was arrested in Shasta County last month, and appeared at the South County courthouse in Morgan Hill last week. She operated a daycare facility in Gilroy.

A new bill under consideration in the California Legislature would give local officials more tools to identify and combat sexual abuse and educate students to better identify the most common signs of grooming behavior.

The cousin of 43-year-old Torres, identified only as John Doe, said he was far from the only victim of the former City Council member's abuse. Shocking revelations at Friday's sentencing divided the family and resulted in a maximum 18-year sentence.

Changes are underway one year after scathing audits showed how the California State University system failed to handle reports of sexual discrimination, harassment and assault in its Title IX offices.

John Giacomini, 73, of Atherton, pleaded guilty to the charge on March 2. He practiced medicine and cardiology from 1985 to 2018 and was chief of the cardiology section at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Palo Alto.  

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.

William Gerry, a former San Jose city inspector, was convicted of extorting bribes and molesting children.

A controversial law requiring all publicly held companies headquartered in the Golden State to have at least one woman on their board of directors has been ruled unconstitutional by a Superior Court judge..

Lawyers filed a federal class action civil rights lawsuit this month on behalf of “Jane Doe et. al.” against Scott Shaw, San Jose State and CSU trustees citing “approximately 1,000 students” who may have been victims of Shaw's sexual abuse.

One student was told she looked like an “Italian model" from Title IX staff, while another says student journalists were censored.