San Francisco's most uniquely effective public safety program — a 50-year community-based innovation that doubles every city dollar and is 7.7× cheaper than the probation alternative — is being handed...

A New Orleans man exonerated after serving nearly 30 years in prison has a new fight on his hands. Calvin Duncan has been elected as the city's new clerk of criminal court, but now Republican lawmaker...

German Gonzalez grew up about an hour south of Stanford University, in a dusty California farming town where the apples for Martinelli’s sparkling cider are juiced and packaged. In high... Read More

Well, well, well. What have we got here? Another city slicker who thinks he can waltz into my town and start causin’ all sorts of trouble. I’d be careful if I was you, fella. Because however they do t...

The host spoke about a little known charge that sends people to prison for life for murder even if they haven’t actually murdered anybody

When asked why he shared the posts, Dan Dow called Zohran Mamdani “an un-American socialist who wants to trample on the values and freedoms that millions of Americans have fought and died for.”

Zohran Mamdani's campaign for New York City mayor has neatly sidestepped a trap that ensnared multiple progressive prosecutors in California.

California adopted major sentencing changes under Govs. Gavin Newsom and Jerry Brown. A new report provides the first in-depth look at how they’re working.

The legal scholar Cass Sunstein argues for a more expansive definition of an ideology under threat.

Unions put pressure on Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni over backing for Israel.

The privately-operated Kern County facility quietly opened in late August.

OPINION – Since January, ICE agents have arrested at least 22 people at California state courthouses in Fresno – with no regard for due process or dignity. These individuals were not fugitives. Some w...

Student homelessness in Monterey county soars as families struggle with high rent and scarce housing amid funding cuts

A proposed California law would require police to disclose when generative AI is used to write police reports. It comes in the wake of KQED’s reporting on how police departments are adopting these too...

California wanted to address child trafficking. Will it instead feed President Donald Trump’s deportation machine?