Prosecutors Alliance Action drafts and advocates for legislative solutions focused on safety, accountability, and prevention. See below for information on our sponsored bills in California.
To prevent retail theft, this bill will regulate online marketplaces, making it more difficult to sell stolen property there, and hold big corporations like Amazon accountable through civil fines if they fail to verify the identity of those who sell more than 200 items with a cumulative value of over $5000 through their site in a year.
This bill would add to the Youth Bill of Rights the right to mental health resources for youth detained in a juvenile facility, including daily access to counselors, therapists, mentors, or any related services necessary for mental well-being, rehabilitation, and the promotion of positive youth development.
This bill will address racial profiling by prohibiting law enforcement from stopping people for low-level traffic offenses and will empower local communities to use non-police personnel for traffic enforcement. In so-called “pretextual stops,” police use petty violations such as expired registration as a pretext for initiating a stop to pursue what amounts to racially biased fishing expeditions. These encounters are humiliating, can be deadly for community members and, studies show, are an ineffective use of law enforcement resources.
This bill will provide assistance through the Victims Compensation Board to families of those killed by police and to individuals seriously injured by police. This assistance, available to other crime victims, includes help with funeral and burial expenses and mental health counseling for surviving children and family members.
This bill will protect workers and reduce property crime by promoting safer staffing levels at grocery and pharmacy outlets and by better regulating self-checkout machines. Proactively deterring people from committing retail theft is smarter and more effective than law enforcement responding after the fact.
This bill made technical and procedural changes to the process for recall and resentencing to ensure the process is fair, efficient, and effective. Second look sentencing allows reconsideration of old sentences in light of new information and changed circumstances. This bill empowers more judges to reconsider sentences, providing for greater equity in resentencing.
This bill strengthened the process for ensuring that a person relinquishes registered firearms at the time they are convicted of an offense that prohibits firearm ownership. Each year, 5,000 people are added to the Armed Prohibited Persons System – the California list of individuals who have a registered firearm even though they are prohibited from owning a gun – as a result of a new conviction. This bill ensures that all necessary steps are taken at the time of conviction to confirm relinquishment of firearms and ammunition.
This bill would have required local law enforcement to regularly report crime data to the FBI, starting January 1, 2024. In 2022, only 2% of California law enforcement reported crime data to the FBI, making California the second worst in the nation for reporting. Up-to-date crime data is critical for developing effective policies to increase community health and safety.
This bill would have ensured that no state or local government agency sells firearms, firearm parts, ammunition, or body armor. News accounts revealed that, contrary to best practices, some law enforcement agencies have been selling surplus firearms.
This legislation requires District Attorney offices to collect and report to the Attorney General data regarding all stages of criminal cases. The Attorney General will make the data publicly available.
This legislation ended the practice of suspending someone’s license for failure to appear in court and reduced the penalty for driving without a license to an infraction for the first two offenses.
In order to combat the sale of stolen goods online, this legislation requires the collection and verification of identifying information and bank information for large volume sellers of third-party goods online.
The protection of survivors’ privacy and dignity is necessary to ensure trust in law enforcement. This legislation ensures protection for the privacy rights of victims, witnesses, and their family members and intimate partners who provide DNA samples to law enforcement for the purpose of exclusion.
This bill would have created a three-year pilot project to provide on-demand crisis support and services to victims and survivors.
This bill would have expanded access to victim assistance by removing barriers faced by victims of police violence and other victims of violent crime.
This bill would have established a voluntary training program to ensure that victims’ advocates can support survivors of crime and violence with a trauma-informed perspective.
A criminal conviction, or even record of an arrest, can severely impact an indivdidual’s future by limiting employment opportunities, housing access, or social safety net benefits. This legislation would automatically clear the records of individuals convicted of a range of crimes who do not reoffend for a defined period, as well as those whose arrest did not result in charges filed or a conviction.
This bill eliminated the separate offense of spousal rape and expanded the definition of rape to include the rape of a spouse.
This bill created a statewide process to decertify police who commit serious misconduct.
This bill would have improved community trust in law enforcement by requiring prosecutors to recuse themselves from cases involving alleged criminal conduct by on-duty peace officers if the district attorney has received a monetary contribution from a law enforcement association that also provides representation to the officer under investigation.
