Community Voices: Six Months Into Proposition 36

Community Voices: Six months into Proposition 36

Eight hundred twenty-two felony cases. That is how many felony theft and drug cases the Kern County District Attorney’s Office has filed in the first six months of Proposition 36’s implementation that would previously have been cite and release misdemeanors.

Pulling back the curtain: A look at the district attorney’s failure to implement Proposition 36

CONTRA COSTA COUNTY, CA (July 3, 2025) — Words have consequences. Last month, a car was backed through the front doors of the CVS in Lafayette to steal the ATM. Multiple cars fled the scene as law enforcement arrived and they were pursued to the Caldecott Tunnel into Alameda County. A dangerous high-speed pursuit of a wanted car through the streets of Lafayette resulted in the arrest of a man from San Francisco. Later that week, customers and em…