Ryan Sabalow, CalMatters

This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. Sen. Aisha Wahab implored her colleagues to think of hospitalized patients and struggling families as she pitched a proposal to give tenants a full two weeks to pay their past due rent before their landlords could start the

San Mateo Democratic Assemblymember Diane Papan’s Assembly Bill 882 would lift the ban on recording in civil cases for three years to give the courts time to hire more reporters and ease the shortage.

A Democratic California senator is now considering suing Sacramento police for what she alleges was a “politically motivated” false DUI accusation intended to “silence” an LGBTQ Latina lawmaker, her attorney tells CalMatters.

Prosecutors will not file DUI charges against California Sen. Sabrina Cervantes, after a blood test showed she had “no measurable amount of drugs or alcohol in her system” following a crash last week in Sacramento a few blocks from the Capitol.