D.A. Issues 30-Day Notice -- Homeless lawsuit against City of Sacramento likely.
The Sacramento County district attorney is set to sue the City of Sacramento over the downtown homeless crisis.
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The Sacramento County district attorney is set to sue the City of Sacramento over the downtown homeless crisis.
A Placer County judge is the latest to order "transient release" for a "Sexually Violent Predator" due to lack of housing. CBS News Sacramento has identified a spike in the number of sexually violent predators cleared for release into California communities. Now lawmakers are taking action.
First, the assembly public safety chair agreed to include our questions in an audit request. Now, local district attorneys, viewers, and researchers are joining our efforts to get answers from the corrections department.
California is spending hundreds of millions on housing and re-entry programs for former inmates – but isn't tracking if those programs are doing anything to change criminal behavior.
California is spending hundreds of millions on housing and re-entry programs for former inmates – but isn't tracking if those programs are doing anything to change criminal behavior.
California is spending hundreds of millions on housing and re-entry programs for former inmates – but isn't tracking if those programs are doing anything to change criminal behavior.
Sacramento's District Attorney is fed up with dangerous downtown homeless encampments and is demanding the city take action immediately. So what can be done? We're getting answers.
Lawmakers fully funded lead testing in schools in the state budget they passed last week, but some are concerned it could be negotiated out.
Are prison reform laws leading to more rehabilitation and fewer felons reoffending after release? CDCR can't (or won't) say. The agency's recidivism report is dated and incomplete. Now, CBS Sacramento is getting answers to a growing list of questions.
Should you have the right to know that the state is storing your child's DNA and that they may sell it to researchers or give it to law enforcement without your consent? The sponsors of a new bill think you should.
Democratic lawmakers voted down the bill, citing inmate privacy concerns, but voiced bipartisan frustration with secrecy and a lack of transparency from CDCR.
Tens of thousands of California inmates have been released early after serving a fraction of their sentence under Prop 57 policies, but CDCR has yet to release recidivism data for any of them.
The Placer County DA is responding tonight after the state Department of Corrections finally clarified to CBS13 why a man, who is now accused of dismembering an elderly Sacramento woman, had been released from prison after serving just a fraction of his sentence. The DA's been asking for answers for six months.
When California voters passed Prop 57, the state Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation said inmates would earn early release credits for rehabilitation and lose credits for bad behavior. But critics say nearly everyone is getting out early and there's little accountability. Now, Assemblyman Joe Patterson is announcing legislation that would require CDCR to notify the DA's office when an inmate is released and disclose the Prop 57 credit calculation. He's also co-sponsoring a bill that would make those so-called "secret" calculations a public record.
In collaboration with CalMatters, CBS Sacramento has been investigating wage theft in California — employers failing to pay workers what they're owed. Our findings led to a national CBS News investigation. Now, that wage theft data from across the county reveals how much worse the problem is here. California victims have to wait twice as long for a decision in a wage theft case and are less likely to get paid even after they win.
Overall, graduation rates are up on California State University campuses. But stubborn racial inequities remain. In partnership with CalMatters, CBS Sacramento examined the graduation equity gaps on CSU campuses.
The California State University system graduates Black students at lower rates than other groups – but why, and what can be done to fix it?
While at least one California court is so backlogged that judges are dismissing hundreds of criminal cases, the Sacramento County Superior Court is bucking the trend of delayed justice.
In the wake of CBS13's COVID Lab investigation, lawmakers introduced several pieces of legislation intended to ensure accountability long after the pandemic. A year later, one is now state law, and another continues to move through the legislature.
Data compiled by CalMatters reveals the state's top cop is struggling to keep up with the new law that requires the Attorney General's Office to investigate all police shootings of unarmed people.
In California, police were called at K-8th grade campuses more than 10,000 times in a single year and data reveals that students with disabilities were far more likely to be arrested than their non-disabled counterparts.
Data compiled by CalMatters reveals the state's top cop is struggling to keep up with the new law that requires the Attorney General's Office to investigate all police shootings of unarmed people.
CBS News has identified four key groups of election influencers. Among them, the so-called “pressure parents.” They’re now transforming California school board races into a new political battleground.
When voters approved Prop. 57, CDCR said inmates would earn early release credits for rehabilitation and good behavior, but critics argue that's not the case anymore. In second of a two-part series, new data reveals nearly half of the felons from one local county, released under Prop 57, have now reoffended.
When voters approved Prop. 57, CDCR said inmates would earn early release credits for rehabilitation, good behavior, and education milestones, and would lose credits for bad behavior. But critics argue that's not the case anymore and there's little transparency - pointing to Sacramento mass shooting suspect, Smiley Martin, as a prime example. Now one local DA says nearly half of the felons from his county, released under Prop 57, have now reoffended.
