California Attorney General Xavier Becerra

SACRAMENTO March 4, 2019 – California Attorney General Xavier Becerra today successfully obtained a court order preventing the Trump Administration from imposing immigration enforcement requirements on federal public safety grants that California receives. A court in the Northern District of California found that the Trump Administration’s attempt to impose immigration enforcement requirements on $28.9 million […]

SACRAMENTO February 28, 2019 – California Attorney General Xavier Becerra today issued a consumer alert following the Governor’s declaration of a state of emergency in counties across California due to severe winter storms causing flooding, mudslides, erosions, power outages, and infrastructure damage. The proclamation declared today, February 28, applies to the counties of Amador, Glenn, […]

SAN DIEGO, Feb. 22, 2019 – California Attorney General Xavier Becerra and Assemblymember Lorena Gonzalez today unveiled legislation, AB 1296, the Tax Recovery in the Underground Recovery program (TRUE Act), to combat underground economic crimes. AB 1296 is sponsored by Attorney General Becerra and was introduced by Assemblymember Lorena Gonzalez. “With underground economic crime, our workers get exploited, […]

SACRAMENTO, Feb. 18, 2019 – California Governor Gavin Newsom and Attorney General Xavier Becerra, leading a 16-state coalition, today filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California challenging President Trump’s declaration of a national emergency and his attempt to divert funding appropriated by Congress for other purposes. In the complaint, the coalition […]

SACRAMENTO, Jan. 31, 2019 — California Attorney General Xavier Becerra, along with the Attorneys General from Pennsylvania and New Jersey, led a multistate coalition of 19 attorneys general in submitting a comment letter to the U.S. Department of Education (Department), urging them to withdraw their proposed rule that would undermine the anti-discrimination protections of Title IX of […]

SACRAMENTO, Jan. 29, 2019 – California Attorney General Xavier Becerra today announced the release of a California Department of Justice (DOJ) report on use of force-related polices, training, and practices within the Sacramento Police Department (SPD). The report is entirely separate from DOJ’s independent oversight into the shooting death of Stephon Alonzo Clark. The purpose […]

SACRAMENTO, Jan. 2, 2019 – California’s Racial and Identity Profiling Advisory (RIPA) Board released its second annual report. This year’s report builds on the foundation established by last year’s report for identifying and addressing racial and identity profiling in California. The Board is made up of 19 members coming from diverse backgrounds, including law enforcement, religious organizations, academia, community organizations, […]

SACRAMENTO, Dec. 20, 2018 — California Attorney General Xavier Becerra filed an amicus brief in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in support of the City of Oakland’s appeal to defend its ordinance prohibiting the storage and handling of coal at the Oakland Bulk Oversized Terminal (Terminal). Located along the city’s waterfront in West Oakland, […]

SACRAMENTO, Dec. 14, 2018 – California Attorney General Xavier Becerra issued the following statement regarding today’s decision from the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California in State of California, et al. v. Ross, et al. to deny the Trump Administration’s attempt to block a lawsuit challenging the citizenship question on the 2020 […]

SACRAMENTO December 14, 2018 – Attorney General Becerra today issued the following statement regarding Judge Reed O’Connor’s decision in Texas v. U.S., declaring the Affordable Care Act (ACA) unconstitutional, but denying the injunction: “Today’s ruling is an assault on 133 million Americans with preexisting conditions, on the 20 million Americans who rely on the ACA […]

SACRAMENTO, Dec. 10, 2018 – California Attorney General Becerra today joined a bipartisan multistate coalition of 43 attorneys general in a letter urging the prioritization of updates to the Social Security Administration’s (SSA) electronic databases and verification methods, so that institutions can instantly check for and flag synthetic identity theft. By statute, the users of the system — namely banks […]

SACRAMENTO, Nov. 29, 2018 – California Attorney General Becerra filed an expedited motion seeking to block the Trump Administration’s attempt to withhold the Project Safe Neighborhoods (PSN) federal grant from California. Funded by the federal government, the PSN grant is distributed by the California Office of Emergency Services (CalOES) to local law enforcement agencies to fund crime reduction initiatives. This year, […]

SACRAMENTO November 21, 2018 – The California Department of Justice (CA DOJ) today approved the Ministry Alignment Agreement between Dignity Health and Colorado-based Catholic Healthcare Initiatives to join the two systems in California. The review of this transaction included 17 public meetings across the state and over 500 written comments from the public including: various community-based organizations, business associations, […]

SACRAMENTO November 21, 2018 – California Attorney General Xavier Becerra, leading a bipartisan coalition of 32 Attorneys General, filed an amicus brief in the United States Supreme Court supporting states’ rights to regulate and address the rising cost of prescription drugs. In Rutledge v. Pharmaceutical Care Management Association, the Attorneys General argue that in order to protect the well-being of consumers, States […]

SACRAMENTO, Nov. 9, 2018 – California Attorney General Xavier Becerra today sent a letter to President Trump, Secretaries Azar, Acosta, and DeVos, and Acting Attorney General Whitaker, condemning the Administration’s reported plan to alter federal law to narrowly define “sex” as an immutable, biological condition assigned at birth.  This change would effectively deny the existence […]