Category: Joe Patterson

California’s Sex Trafficking Bill Blocked in Committee

March 27, 2023
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A bill that would have reclassified sex trafficking as a violent felony in California was blocked by the Legislature’s Assembly Committee on Public Safety March 14. Six Democratic Assembly members voted against Assembly Bill 229 authored by Joe Patterson (R-Rocklin). The measure would have expanded the Three Strikes Law—a state law passed in 1994 that…

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California Lawmaker Seeks to Classify Sex Trafficking as Violent Felony

March 7, 2023
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Sex trafficking could be reclassified as a violent felony in California under proposed legislation filed by a Republican assemblyman. “Everything wrong about California criminal law is laid out in our statutes pertaining to human trafficking: currently, trafficking children for sexual purposes is not considered a violent felony,” Assemblyman Joe Patterson (R-Rocklin) said in a release….

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Newsom’s Budget Includes 2 Doses of Opioid Overdose Medicine for Every School

January 17, 2023
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Every California middle and high school will stock at least two doses of naloxone—a nasal spray that treats an opioid overdose—on campus under Gov. Gavin Newsom’s proposed 2023–24 budget released last week. While hundreds of schools in the state have already begun to stock naloxone on campuses amid rising opioid-related overdoses and deaths, this year’s…

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