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		<title>April 30 hearing on bills to speed death penalty</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2013/04/23/april-30-hearing-on-bills-to-speed-death-penalty/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Apr 2013 18:25:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Richman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[California State Senate]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Joel Anderson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Prop. 34]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[San Diego]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[SB 779]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hot from having successfully opposed last year’s ballot measure to abolish California’s death penalty, prosecutors now are pushing legislation to put condemned inmates to death faster. The two bills by state Sen. Joel Anderson, R-El Cajon, and sponsored by the California District Attorneys Association, will be heard next Tuesday, April 30 by the state Senate [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Battle looming over &#8216;zero tolerance&#8217; drug DUI bill</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2013/04/09/battle-looming-over-zero-tolerance-drug-dui-bill/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2013/04/09/battle-looming-over-zero-tolerance-drug-dui-bill/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Apr 2013 16:10:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Richman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[marijuana]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Public safety]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[California]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[DUI]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hearing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[illegal drugs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[impairment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lou Correa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[SB 289]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[state Senate]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Sparks might fly as lawmakers later this month hear a bill that would make it illegal to drive with any detectable trace of marijuana or other illegal drugs in the blood, regardless of the driver’s actual impairment. Marijuana advocates say this “zero tolerance” bill, to be heard April 23 by the state Senate Public Safety [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Contra Costa gets federal domestic violence grant</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2013/03/13/contra-costa-gets-federal-domestic-violence-grant/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2013/03/13/contra-costa-gets-federal-domestic-violence-grant/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Mar 2013 17:23:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Richman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Contra Costa County]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Joe Biden]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Public safety]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[at-risk]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[California]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[domestic violence]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Domestic Violence Homicide Prevention Demonstration Initiative]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[DVHP]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Eric Holder]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Grant]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[grants]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[homicides]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Justice Department]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[murders]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Office on Violence Against Women]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[victims]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Contra Costa County is among 12 U.S. counties and cities chosen to receive a new federal grant aimed at reducing domestic violence homicides by focusing on victims most at risk and abusers most likely to be lethal. The money – $2.3 million in total, ranging from $101,658 to $200,000 per site – is part of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>House Dems step up their gun-violence dialogue</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2013/01/11/house-dems-step-up-their-gun-violence-dialogue/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2013/01/11/house-dems-step-up-their-gun-violence-dialogue/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jan 2013 22:33:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Richman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Barbara Lee]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gun control]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mike Thompson]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Public safety]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Oakland]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Rob Andrews]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[task force]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[House Democrats will stepping up the dialogue next week on how best to prevent gun violence. Rep. Mike Thompson, D-Napa, a combat veteran and avid hunter whom House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi tapped last month to head up a gun-violence task force, held three town hall meetings on the topic this past week in Napa, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Skinner brings back bill to control ammo sales</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2012/12/20/skinner-brings-back-bill-to-control-ammo-sales/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2012/12/20/skinner-brings-back-bill-to-control-ammo-sales/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Dec 2012 20:16:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Richman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Assembly]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gun control]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nancy Skinner]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Public safety]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ammo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ammunition]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[background check]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Berkeley]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ID]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Justice Department]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[license]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[magazines]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/?p=21841</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A Bay Area lawmaker is re-introducing a bill that would tighten up on ammunition sales, which aren’t tracked by current law. “In California, it’s harder to get some cold medicines than ammunition,” Assemblywoman Nancy Skinner, D-Berkeley, said in a news release, referring to the state’s law restricting sales of pseudoephedrine, which can be used as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Boxer pitches grants, Guardsmen for safer schools</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2012/12/19/boxer-pitches-grants-guardsmen-for-safer-schools/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2012/12/19/boxer-pitches-grants-guardsmen-for-safer-schools/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Dec 2012 00:01:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Richman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Barbara Boxer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Public safety]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[U.S. Senate]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Sandy Hook]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[school shooting]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/?p=21832</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer today introduced two new bills that she said will strengthen safety at schools by giving state and local officials new resources and tools to help them secure their campuses and protect students. “When our children and our grandchildren are at school, we must have faith that they are safe,” Boxer, D-Calif., [...]]]></description>
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		<title>State took 2,000 guns from illegal owners in 2012</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2012/12/18/state-took-2000-guns-from-illegal-owners-in-2012/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2012/12/18/state-took-2000-guns-from-illegal-owners-in-2012/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Dec 2012 21:37:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Richman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Attorney General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gun control]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kamala Harris]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Public safety]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Mark Leno]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mentally ill]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[California may have a sizeable leg up on other states in taking guns away from mentally ill people who are barred by law from owning them. State Attorney General Kamala Harris said Tuesday that more than 2,000 firearms were seized in 2012 from people in California who were legally barred from possessing them, including mentally [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lockyer: Pension funds should dump gunmakers</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2012/12/17/lockyer-pension-funds-should-dump-gunmakers/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2012/12/17/lockyer-pension-funds-should-dump-gunmakers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Dec 2012 01:42:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Richman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Bill Lockyer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Public safety]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[assault weapons]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bushmaster]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[California Treasurer Bill Lockyer wants the state’s gigantic public pension funds to divest themselves of investments in any firearm manufacturer that makes guns banned in California. Lockyer said Monday that he has asked staff at the California Public Employees’ Retirement System (CalPERS) and the California State Teachers’ Retirement System (CalSTRS) to identify all their investments [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Good Samaritan drug law takes effect Jan. 1</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2012/12/17/good-samaritan-drug-law-takes-effect-jan-1/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2012/12/17/good-samaritan-drug-law-takes-effect-jan-1/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Dec 2012 00:42:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Richman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Assembly]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Public safety]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tom Ammiano]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[911]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Among California’s new laws taking effect Jan. 1 will be a “Good Samaritan” law, encouraging witnesses of suspected drug or alcohol overdoses to seek emergency aid without fear of arrest. California is the 10th state to enact such a law; it was authored here as AB 472 by Assemblyman Tom Ammiano, D-San Francisco. The law [...]]]></description>
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		<title>9th Circuit to rehear challenge to state DNA law</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2012/07/25/9th-circuit-to-rehear-challenge-to-state-dna-law/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2012/07/25/9th-circuit-to-rehear-challenge-to-state-dna-law/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jul 2012 01:00:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Richman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[ballot measures]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[en banc]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[felonies]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Ninth Circuit]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Northern California]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Prop. 69]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals agreed Wednesday to rehear a challenge to California’s law requiring law enforcement officers to collect DNA samples from all adults arrested for felonies. The lawsuit was filed in 2009 by the American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California; spokeswoman Rebecca Farmer said Wednesday that oral arguments will be [...]]]></description>
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