The electronic ankle monitors California used for several years to monitor more than 4,000 high-risk sex offenders and gang members were so inaccurate and unreliable that corrections officials said that the public was “in imminent danger.”
News of the week is that the Recreational Boaters of California (RBOC) is encouraging boaters to support SB 122, which was introduced by Sen. Ted W. Lieu. This bill will prevent the automatic sunset of the abandoned and derelict vessel program scheduled on Jan. 1, and RBOC is supporting this bill to make the program permanent.
March 27, 2013 -- The Community Corporation of Santa Monica -- the beachside city's largest provider of affordable housing -- will open a new three-story building Thursday, adding 47 new family units in the Pico Neighborhood.
State Senator Ted Lieu and Santa Mayor Pam O'Connor will speak at Thursday's grand opening at 2345 Virginia Avenue, which will also include a groundbreaking ceremony for the project's second phase: High Place East.
By Karen Robes Meeks, Staff Writerpresstelegram.com
Several years ago, state Sen. Ted W. Lieu received a medical bill for something he thought had been covered by his network.
After the experience, the Torrance senator found out that this kind of thing often happens. A hospital patient may never know he or she may be getting a pathologist or an anesthesiologist outside of his or her network - meaning not contracted with that patient's insurance company - until a costly bill arrives.
Members of CSBA’s Superintendents Advisory Council—meeting at the association’s West Sacramento offices—had the chance to ask questions and raise specific concerns about new school safety legislation during a wide ranging discussion with the bill’s author, Sen. Ted Lieu, D-Torrance.
