As self-checkout has become more commonplace, lone workers have become easy targets for theft and violence. Today, Senator Lola Smallwood-Cuevas (D-Los Angeles), California Labor Federation Chief Operating Officer Lorena Gonzalez Fletcher, grocery and retail store workers, and criminal justice advocates held an online press conference to discuss their support of SB 1446 – the Retail Theft Prevention and Safety Act – and how the proliferation of self-checkout has caused this increase in theft and violence and how California can begin to curb these issues.