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After last year's passage of Proposition 36 — a ballot measure that allows more theft and drug crimes to be charged as felonies — some opponents warned it would trigger steep funding cuts to ...
This measure asks voters to change parts of Proposition 47, a controversial ballot initiative passed in 2014 that turned some nonviolent felonies into misdemeanors.
CBS News California takes a closer look at the drug component of the high-profile Proposition 36 to fact-check claims about the ballot measure from supporters and opponents.
Proposition 36, titled Allows Felony Charges and Increases Sentences for Certain Drug and Theft Crimes, was an initiated California ballot proposition and legislative statute that was passed by a landslide in the 2024 general election [2] [3] and went into effect in December 2024. [4]
Prop. 36 alters existing areas of the Penal Code and Health and Safety Code when it comes to theft, property damage and drug-related crimes. These changes include the creation of new felony theft ...
The Associated Press declared the passage of Proposition 36 about an hour after polls closed, an indication of the strong voter support for the measure. Read more: Election results for California ...
Proposition 36, also titled A Change in the "Three Strikes Law" Initiative, was a California ballot measure that was passed in November 2012 to modify California's Three Strikes Law (passed in 1994). The latter law punishes habitual offenders by establishing sentence escalation for crimes that were classified as "strikes", and requires a ...
The No on Proposition 36 campaign points to a decrease in theft clearance rates — arrests for reported crimes — as a key factor in the rise of the statewide retail crime rate after the passage ...