From Police calls primary school children For state behavioral issues Store and share your DNA without permissionWe showed you how our CBS News California investigation has emphasized MPs to change.
Now, we are giving you a glimpse of how things actually work inside California State Capital.
Capital usually does not work in the way people think that it does, and the bills inspired by our reporting provide the correct example.
Our Hallway handcuffs Investigations have revealed that police were called to K -8 complexes more than 10,000 times in a year, including tardy arbitration, unfair behavior and disrupting school activities that are technically a rape.
“We are using valuable resources, police are coming to the campus thousands of times a year for very minor events,” said California Assembly Ash Kalra.
Assembly Kalra introduced a bill to reduce unnecessary calls for the police on the campus for the second consecutive year.
Last year, Legislative Assembly Speaker Al Mursuchi chose Kalra’s bill not to schedule for only one hearing, killing it in a single-hand.
Many people do not feel that a person, a committee chair, has the power to quietly kill any bill, before anyone gets a chance to vote.
This year, however, he is supporting the bill with changes. “I just want to clarify for a record that many amendments were made to the bill,” Murthysuchi said at the hearing.
Those amendments include clarification that administrators cannot stop the police from calling and they have to inform the drug sales and arms law enforcement in the campus.
If a chair supports a bill, it usually passes, and it was done despite concerns by members of a committee that it could reduce on-campus crimes.
Now the Bill is the head of the appropriation committee, where many bills are quietly dying in the dreaded suspense file without one vote … like last year The newborn genetic secrecy bill which was inspired by our 10 -year investigation.
Almost every child born in America gets heel prick after some time after birth. Their newborn blood fills six places on a particular card, which is used to test the child for dozens of disorders – if adequately treated – can save their lives.
The test is important, but it is what happens after the test in which many people are worried.
The remaining bloodspots become “state property” and can be purchased by researchers or shared with law enforcement without your knowledge or consent.
For years, everyone from parents to privacy advocates is calling for more transparency.
In fact, three different Senate committees Last year, parents were selected to get out before storing their child’s DNA to vote.However, the full Senate never got votes.
Why?
The State Health Department claimed that there would be millions of spending to give the parents right. Therefore, the bill was sent for something called suspense file, where in budget deficit, expensive bills die.
When the appropriation president chose a single to kill the bill, even if the taxpayers would not have to do a dime as it would have to pay the required fee for the program.
So now there are two new bills. After our recent report, a state will force the list of research studies using California’s blood locations. Will be another State needs to obtain your permission before storage or sharing Your DNA.
The first bill was so popular that it passed on consent without hearing. The other was drawn by the author In order to revive last year’s bill, in a closed door deal that died in suspense file.
This is because this year, there is a new appropriation chair, which means a new opportunity to survive Newborn genetic secrecy bill And Kalra school safety bill.