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The sworn personnel of the Department have statewide peace officer powers as provided by section 830.2(i) of the California Penal Code. The State Fair historically had a reputation for violence and disorder; between 2009 and 2017, police made an average of 66 arrests each year. Police were accused of racially profiling black teenagers.
The California Civil Rights Department ( CRD) (formerly known as the Department of Fair Employment and Housing (DFEH)) is an agency of California state government charged with the protection of residents from employment, housing and public accommodation discrimination, and hate violence. It is the largest state civil rights agency in the United ...
California Fair Employment and Housing Act of 1959. The California Fair Employment and Housing Act of 1959, codified as Government Code §§12900 - 12996, [1] is a California statute used to fight sexual harassment and other forms of unlawful discrimination in employment and housing, which was passed on September 18, 1959.
California Proposition 14 was a November 1964 initiative ballot measure that amended the California state constitution to nullify the 1963 Rumford Fair Housing Act, thereby allowing property sellers, landlords and their agents to openly discriminate on ethnic grounds when selling or letting accommodations, as they had been permitted to before ...
Updated August 11, 2024 at 9:32 AM. Homeless advocates across California say they're terrified people living without housing are running out of places where they can legally sleep outside. The web ...
The Unruh Civil Rights Act (colloquially the "Unruh Act") is an expansive 1959 California law that prohibits any business in California from engaging in unlawful discrimination against all persons (consumers) within California's jurisdiction, where the unlawful discrimination is in part based on a person's sex, race, color, religion, ancestry, national origin, age, disability, medical ...
This public knowledge of the California State Police didn't fully come to light until its merger with the California Highway Patrol when it received major state news coverage in 1995. At the time of the merger, the California State Police was the state’s oldest law enforcement agency (1887-1995 (~108 years)), a record that is still held today.
Since 2019, the number of residential policies in the FAIR Plan has soared by 164% and in the first three-quarters of financial year 2024, the plan has added 134,576 new policyholders.