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IE Business Daily: State grant will help Perris

Perris has received $5.5 million in state funding that it will use to renovate a 20-year-old park and build a fire station.

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Raincross Gazette: University Heights Students Meet Women Mentors at Day of the Girl Event

State Senator Sabrina Cervantes and a Riverside County judge were among the speakers at the Boys & Girls Clubs gathering in Fairmount Park.
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SF Chronicle: 'Democracy is on the line': Newsom signs wave of election protections

In another defense against election interference in California, Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bill Friday that expands an existing ballot protection law to prevent the destruction of election data stored on electronic media. The bill - by state Sen. Sabrina Cervantes, D-Riverside - includes an urgency clause that requires the legislation to immediately take effect, ensuring the protections apply in the upcoming Nov. 3 election.
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The Observer: Sheriff’s Office Keeps Lock On Flock Camera Use

Sacramento County Sheriff’s Office lacks a public Flock transparency portal, while records reviewed by The OBSERVER redact deputies’ reasons for searching the license plate reader network.
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Press-Enterprise: Gov. Newsom signs bills meant to stop Trump changes in CA elections; legislation by Sens. Cervantes, Umberg seeks to bolster voting rights

Californians’ voting rights just got a booster shot. Gov. Gavin Newsom late last week signed three bills from Democratic Southern California state senators intended to shield state elections from interference. The bills are not-so-subtle jabs at President Donald Trump.
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Valley News Op-Ed: America is slamming the brakes on the camera network tracking your every move

Officials across party lines are moving to dismantle the growing network of cameras tracking American drivers. Several state and federal officials are calling to restrict automated license plate readers (ALPRs), artificial intelligence-powered cameras that scan the plates of passing cars. Pushback to this technology — specifically Flock Safety cameras — has brought together Republicans and Democrats who say these tools amount to warrantless mass surveillance, while law enforcement warns that restricting them would hinder their ability to solve crimes.
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Mustang News: New bill prevents Artificial Intelligence from taking Cal State jobs

Governor Gavin Newsom signed a bill into law that will prevent Artificial Intelligence from taking staff and faculty jobs at Cal States. The California Faculty Association and the California Federation of Labor Unions sponsored the bill, according to the CalMatters Digital Democracy database.
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Sacramento Bee: Slate of bills to regulate immigration enforcement awaits Newsom’s signature

As the Legislative session came to a close, California legislators sent more than a dozen bills to Gov. Gavin Newsom’s desk to regulate federal immigration enforcement and detention and support the state’s immigrant communities.
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SF Chronicle: In purple California, lawmaker sisters take on their MAGA sheriff

While Senator Sabrina Cervantes works to tweak state law, her sister is arguing that Bianco has already broken it. Clarissa Cervantes has top billing in Cervantes et al. v. Bianco, one of two California Supreme Court cases challenging the legality of Bianco's Prop 50 investigation.