Just before the deadline, the Assembly speaker helps unveil a bill to combat retail theft, a focus of California crime concerns.
We’re a big state with big challenges. Each morning we explain the top issues and how Californians are trying to solve them.One weekly email, all the Golden State newsGet the news that matters to all Californians. Start every week informed.An armed security guard stands in front of a Neiman Marcus store in San Francisco’s Union Square on Nov. 24, 2021. Photo by Samuel Rigelhaupt, REUTERSRobert Rivas, a Democrat from Salinas: “Organized retail theft is having a chilling effect on our communities.
Thursday’s measure is in response to a 29% jump in 2022 in shoplifting , including some high-profile smash and grabs. Also, there was a 16% rise in commercial burglaries of items totaling more than $950 between 2019 and 2022, The two sides released dueling reports this week extolling the virtues, or sins, of the state’s Private Attorneys General Act, which major employers’ groups such as the California Chamber of Commerce are campaigning to repeal via the November ballot. Workers claiming labor law violations, such as wage theft, can ask the state Labor Commissioner’s Office to investigate, and either cite or sue the employer. .
Business groups hate the law, saying it enriches lawyers while subjecting numerous businesses to costly suits over technical violations.
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