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Richmond Police Investigated By Attorney General Over Shooting of Unarmed Man

A Tuesday shooting by Richmond police that was initially described as a standoff with a domestic violence suspect is being investigated by the California Attorney General's Office.

SF Politics

California Joins Coalition of States Suing Trump Over Federal Funding Freeze They Call Illegal

The latest piece of governing-by-fiat from Trump, which is perfectly in line with that Project 2025 he claimed not to know much about, is an immediate freeze of federal funding and grants of many kinds, set to take effect later today — but a federal judge has already blocked it.

SF Politics

AG Rob Bonta Facing Questions After Taking Campaign Donations From Casino His Office Was Investigating

State Attorney General Rob Bonta took a $16,000 contribution from a Southern California casino in his first month on the job. The problem? His office was investigating that casino for money laundering at the time, and the charges have since disappeared.

SF Politics

Fired-Up State AG Rob Bonta Declares He’ll Roadblock the Trump Administration on Deportation Plans

In preparing for Trump’s return to power, California Attorney General Rob Bonta sounds like he’s ready to sue the Trump administration at every turn, vowing “We won’t be flat-footed come January,” particularly on mass deportation attempts.

Business & Tech

California Joins 13 Other States in Suing TikTok for Alleged Harm It Causes to Teen Users

A new lawsuit from 14 state attorneys general goes after TikTok for those “challenge” videos that have killed teens nationwide, and even alleges an economy of underage nude videos that have created a "virtual strip club" on the platform.

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AG Rob Bonta Sues Humboldt Catholic Hospital for Refusing to Provide Emergency Abortion With Mother’s Life at Risk

The state attorney general has filed a lawsuit against Humboldt County's Providence St. Joseph Hospital for refusing to provide an emergency abortion on a night when the mother might have died without one.

SF Politics

AG Rob Bonta Finds Himself Possibly Dragged Into Whatever the Sheng Thao Raid Is All About

New reporting on one possible suspect in the Sheng Thao FBI raid shows that state Attorney General Rob Bonta once steered $680,000 in state money to a failed energy startup run by that particular suspect who had an extremely checkered past.

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State AG Rob Bonta Sues Exxon for Falsely Claiming Plastics Were Recyclable When They Were Not

The oil giant ExxonMobile is also in the plastics production industry, and California Attorney General Rob Bonta says they’ve been lying to the public for decades claiming that non-recyclable plastic was actually recyclable, just in order to sell more single-use plastic containers.

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CA Attorney General's Office Weighs In on Controversial No-Charge Decision In Banko Brown Shooting

After being asked by the San Francisco Board of Supervisors to review a decision by District Attorney Brooke Jenkins not to file charges in the April 2023 shooting of Banko Brown by a Walgreens security guard, the California Attorney General's Office has come back with a response, one year later.

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State Raid of Richmond Home Turns Up Tons of Guns, a Million Rounds of Ammo

The California Bureau of Firearms raided a home in the East Bay city of Richmond, and arrested a man for having nearly 250 guns and a million rounds of ammunition. And for good measure, the fellow had already been prohibited from owning weapons.

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Federal Judge Strikes Down California Assault Weapons Ban, State AG Already Vows to Appeal

The 34-year-old California assault weapons ban was ruled unconstitutional in a Thursday decision by a federal judge, but state Attorney General Rob Bonta insists the ban remains in place while he puts together an appeal.

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State AG Rob Bonta Announces Five-Year State Oversight of Scandal-Plagued Vallejo Police Department

The troubled and some would say trigger-happy Vallejo Police Department is looking at state Department of Justice oversight for the next five years, as California Attorney General Rob Bonta looks to curb the department’s very frequent use of force.

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California Sues Major Oil Companies Over Climate Deception and Damage

California state filed a lawsuit this week against BP, ExxonMobil, Chevron, Shell, ConocoPhillips, and the American Petroleum Institute, alleging they misled the public about the risks of burning fossil fuels and caused vast harm to the environment and communities in violation of state laws.

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Kaiser Permanente to Pay $49 Million State Settlement for Improper Disposal of Medical Waste and Patient Records

Undercover trash inspectors found thousands of patient records, pharmaceutical drugs, syringes vials containing human blood and bodily fluids, and hazardous materials like batteries, aerosols, and electronic waste at 16 Kaiser medical facilities.

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CA Attorney General Agrees to Look Into Banko Brown Shooting Case

California State Attorney General Rob Bonta has agreed to review the evidence in the case of the shooting death of 24-year-old Banko Brown, and whether SF District Attorney Brooke Jenkins made the right call in declining to press charges.

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State AG Rob Bonta Investigating Last Week’s Fatal Police Shooting in Newark

While it’s unclear whether Newark police, Fremont police, or an Alameda County officer fired the fatal shot in a suspected East Bay carjacking last week, the state attorney general took up an investigation of the police shooting the day after it happened.

SF Politics

AG Bonta's Office Has 90 Days to Review SF Police Shooting Case — and Jenkins's Handling of It

The California Attorney General's Office has responded to a San Francisco court proceeding involving what would have been the first-ever prosecution of an on-duty SFPD officer for a fatal shooting, asking for 90 more days to review the case.

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All Eyes Are on AG Rob Bonta as Decision to Prosecute Rookie SF Cop In 2017 Keita O'Neil Shooting Rests With Him

A San Francisco judge on Wednesday opted to delay a motion from the District Attorney's Office to dismiss manslaughter charges against former SFPD Officer Christopher Samayoa, in order to give the state Attorney General's Office more time to consider the case.

Business & Tech

AG Rob Bonta Calls On Apple to Shore Up Privacy on Reproductive-Related Data

After Vice managed to buy the location data of people who visited 600 Planned Parenthood clinics (for a mere $160!), California AG Rob Bonta is urging Apple to better protect users’ private information in App Store third-party apps.

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State of California Sues Amazon for Price Manipulation, Anti-Competitive Practices

State AG Rob Bonta claims he has the proof that Amazon forces other websites to maintain artificially high prices, and that’s how Amazon maintains the lowest prices, and that he’s going

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State AG Refuses DA Jenkins’s Request To Take Breed’s Brother's Case, Plus Case Involving DA's Husband's Family

New DA Brooke Jenkins’s request to hand resentencing of London Breed’s brother to the state attorney general has been denied, and same goes for a case involving Jenkins’s husband’s cousin.

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State AG Now Investigating Last Week's Police Shooting That Left Two Dead in Mission Bay

State Attorney General Rob Bonta is investigating an alleged police shooting of two men last Thursday in Mariposa Park, and new reporting indicates that SFPD may have shot both the assailant and the victim in the incident.

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State Attorney General Steps In to Help Mediate Battle Between SFPD and Chesa Boudin

On Monday, California Attorney General Rob Bonta issued a joint statement with SF Mayor London Breed and City Attorney David Chiu about helping SF's embattled district attorney and the city's police department work out their differences.

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State AG Rob Bonta Announces Five Guilty Pleas in $8 Million Walgreens-CVS-Target Theft Ring

Standing in front of a CVS in Burlingame, the attorney general announced guilty pleas in what is supposedly one of the largest theft-ring arrests in California history.

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CA Attorney General Says His Office Will Now Decide Charges In Officer-Involved Shootings of Unarmed Civilians

Newly installed California Attorney General Rob Bonta on Wednesday laid out how he plans to enforce a law that he helped put on the books as an Assemblymember, which requires the AG's Office to get involved with all police shootings of unarmed civilians in the state.