By Staff Reporters, CBS Sacramento TV-13
November 4, 2020
https://sacramento.cbslocal.com/2020/11/04/proposition-24-the-propositi…
Proposition 24 has passed, the Associated Press reports.
By Colin Staub, RESOURCE RECYCLING
November 3, 2020
https://resource-recycling.com/recycling/2020/11/03/big-drop-in-califor…
Advocacy organization Consumer Watchdog recently noted the COVID-19 pandemic has slashed California’s beverage container recycling rate. But the state’s recycling agency called that analysis “inaccurate.”
By Max Pringle, SAN FRANCISCO PUBLIC PRESS
November 2, 2020
https://www.sfpublicpress.org/can-the-ballot-be-used-to-hold-local-gove…
San Francisco has faced many scandals in which public officials abused their power for personal, political or organizational gain. Most recently, the Department of Public Works was rocked by an FBI investigation into alleged kickbacks, slush funds and illicit permitting influence.
Critics worry that the curatives in Prop. 24 are worse than the disease of privacy-rights violations.
By Seth Rosenblatt, DARK READING
November 2, 2020
https://www.darkreading.com/endpoint/californias-prop-24-splits-privacy…
In a letter to the Senate Elections Committee, Consumer Watchdog questions the Big Tech company's motives
By Julia Musto, FOX BUSINESS
October 31, 2020
https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/watchdog-group-calls-for-investiga…
By Patrick W. Dunne, DIGITAL PRIVACY NEWS
October 29, 2020
https://digitalprivacy.news/2020/10/29/privacy-experts-split-on-calif-s…
California residents will vote Tuesday on a divisive privacy initiative: Prop 24, also known as the California Privacy Rights and Enforcement Act.
In a year of record fires, record heat and the unprecedented Coronavirus in California, the City Council of Culver City, the site of the largest urban oil field in the U.S, voted on October 26 to phase out oil drilling. This vote took place as the Gavin Newsom Administration has expanded oil and gas drilling in California — and the City Council members hope that Newsom will take note of the historic decision.
By Dan Bacher, RED GREEN & BLUE
October 29, 2020
By Doug Sovern, KCBS AM San Francisco, CA
October 27, 2020
Click here to listen to Carmen Balber of Consumer Watchdog explain how Prop 24 will strengthen privacy protections in California: https://consumerwatchdog.org/sites/default/files/2020-10/RADKCBS_Carmen…
By Nicole Nixon, KPBS, CAPITOL PUBLIC RADIO
October 23, 2020
https://www.kpbs.org/podcasts/san-diego-news-matters/2020/oct/23/candid…
Californians are voting on a dozen ballot propositions this election, including Prop 24, which would tweak the state’s new digital privacy law. CapRadio’s Nicole Nixon reports.
The Newsom administration has established a pattern of approving permits during busy news cycles.
By Steve Horn, CAPITAL & MAIN
October 23, 2020
https://capitalandmain.com/gov-newsom-pledges-to-ban-fracking-californi…
By Wendy Davis, MEDIAPOST DIGITAL NEWS DAILY
October 23, 2020
https://www.mediapost.com/publications/article/357145/consumer-reports-…
The influential watchdog Consumer Reports has endorsed a ballot initiative aimed at strengthening California's already broad privacy law.
By Lyle Adriano, INSURANCE BUSINESS AMERICA
October 20, 2020
https://www.insurancebusinessmag.com/us/news/catastrophe/consumer-advoc…
Consumer advocate group Consumer Watchdog has issued a statement accusing the insurance industry of “exploiting” the California wildfires for its own financial gain.
By Dan Bacher, RED GREEN & BLUE
October 17, 2020
http://redgreenandblue.org/2020/10/17/ca-regulators-issue-6-new-frackin…
The agency approved the permits after an independent technical review by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories, according to Matt Baker, Deputy Secretary for Energy of the California Natural Resources Agency.
By J. Jennings Moss, SILICON VALLEY BUSINESS JOURNAL
October 9, 2020
https://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/news/2020/10/09/prop-24-would-…
By J. Jennings Moss – Silicon Valley Business Journal
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By Dakota Smith, LOS ANGELES TIMES
October 6, 2020
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-10-06/la-fined-serious-ab…
A Superior Court judge on Tuesday ordered the city of Los Angeles to pay a $2.5-million fine, ruling in favor of a consulting firm that accused City Atty. Mike Feuer’s office of concealing evidence in a high-profile lawsuit involving the Department of Water and Power.
By John Woolfolk, THE MERCURY NEWS
October 5, 2020
https://www.mercurynews.com/2020/10/05/prop-24-big-tech-quiet-in-califo…
Proposition 24 on the November ballot is pitched as an expansion of California's already robust consumer data privacy law, an iron cuff on the claws of companies that profit handsomely from tracking and selling your online search, travel and purchase habits to marketers.
Host - Larry Mantle, AIR TALK - KPCC 89.3 FM SCPR Pasadena, CA
September 30, 2020
Click here to listen to the audio of this radio broadcast segment: https://www.scpr.org/programs/airtalk/2020/09/30/66072/a-new-bill-aims-…
This November, Californians will find a new privacy bill on their ballots.
By John Wildermuth, THE SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE
September 24, 2020
https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/Californians-could-sign-ba…
A consumer advocacy group wants to pull most of the rickety card tables, dog-eared paper petitions and pushy initiative signature gatherers from California's shopping centers and sidewalks and move it all to the internet.
By Janet Wilson, THE DESERT SUN
September 24, 2020
https://www.desertsun.com/story/news/environment/2020/09/23/newsom-aims…
Gov. Gavin Newsom on Wednesday vowed to work with the state legislature to phase out new permits for hydraulic fracking by 2024, but left untouched a more widely used oil extraction technique in the state that has been linked to hundreds of oil spills.
By Don Thompson, ASSOCIATED PRESS
September 23, 2020
https://apnews.com/article/legislature-climate-hydraulic-fracturing-env…
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California Gov. Gavin Newsom moved Wednesday to end issuing new hydraulic fracturing permits by 2024, a delay criticized by many environmental groups but characterized as legally and politically realistic by another.
The U.S. as a nation spends more on health care than any other developed country but has worse health outcomes. How is this possible?
By Maura Hohman, TODAY
September 22, 2020
https://www.today.com/tmrw/why-healthcare-so-expensive-united-states-t1…
By UPFRONT - KPFA 94.1FM Berkeley, CA
September 9, 2020
Click here to listen to the audio of this radio news broadcast: https://kpfa.org/episode/upfront-september-9-2020/
By Angelica Cabral, THE CALIFORNIAN
September 8, 2020
Editor's note: This is the fourth in a series of four articles highlighting notable ballot propositions. The other propositions The Californian covered were 17, 21 and 22.
Proposition 24 is a bit confusing.
As the California Resources Corporation and other oil companies filed for bankruptcy and COVID-19 cases shattered California daily records in the second quarter of 2020, oil regulators under Governor Gavin Newsom also shattered records for dispensing new oil and gas production well drilling permits, Consumer Watchdog and FracTracker Alliance said in a report released today.
By Dan Bacher, RED GREEN & BLUE
September 3, 2020
By Larry Perel, KCRW 89.9 FM Santa Monica, CA
September 3, 2020
Click here to listen to the audio of this radio news segment: https://www.consumerwatchdog.org/sites/default/files/2020-09/CWD_OilPer…
Insurers, facing huge losses, have been pulling back from fire-prone areas across California. “The marketplace has largely collapsed,” an advocate for counties in the state said.
By Christopher Flavelle, THE NEW YORK TIMES
September 2, 2020
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/02/climate/wildfires-insurance.html
By Colby Bermel, POLITICO PRO CALIFORNIA
September 2, 2020
WELL, WELL, WELL: New oil and gas production drilling permit approvals are up 190 percent in the first half of 2020 compared to the same period last year, according to a Consumer Watchdog and FracTracker Alliance report provided to POLITICO.
By Kerry Klein, KVPR NPR Bakersfield, CA
September 1, 2020
https://www.kvpr.org/post/state-senator-questions-medical-board-about-i…
A San Joaquin Valley legislator is seeking answers from the Medical Board of California as to why the oversight agency allowed a Bakersfield doctor to remain in practice even though it determined he had been negligent with patients.
By Katy Murphy, POLITICO
August 31, 2020
https://www.politico.com/states/california/story/2020/08/31/andrew-yang…
SACRAMENTO — Former presidential candidate Andrew Yang is throwing his weight behind California’s November data privacy ballot measure — not just endorsing the initiative but chairing its advisory board, the Proposition 24 campaign announced Monday.
By Wendy Davis, DIGITAL NEWS DAILY - MEDIAPOST
August 31, 2020
https://www.mediapost.com/publications/article/355306/andrew-yang-backs…
Former Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang is backing a California ballot initiative aimed at strengthening California's already broad privacy law.
By Patrick Range McDonald, CITY WATCH LA
August 27, 2020
https://citywatchla.com/index.php/cw/los-angeles/20318-can-californians…
HOUSING IS A HUMAN RIGHT-On the evening of June 1, in Washington D.C., Rahul Dubey could see trouble brewing outside his home.
By KCBS LA Staff, KCBS TV-2 Los Angeles, CA
August 24, 2020
Click here to view the video of this story: https://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2020/08/24/garden-grove-orange-county-w…
GARDEN GROVE (CBSLA) – The Do family lives in a modest single-family home in Orange County.
By Jeff McDonald, SAN DIEGO UNION-TRIBUNE
August 21, 2020
https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/watchdog/story/2020-08-21/sta…
California Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara and the Los Angeles advocacy group Consumer Watchdog issued separate statements Friday announcing they no longer opposed a wildfire-insurance bill.
