Police are meant to serve and protect the public, not wage war against them,” the ACLU said in a statement critical of the veto.

California school districts will be required to limit or prohibit the use of smartphones in public schools following Gov. Gavin Newsom’s signature of a new bill into law Monday. AB 3216, authored by Republican Assemblymember Josh Hoover of Folsom,

"Paper or plastic" will no longer be a choice at grocery store checkout lines in California under a new law signed Sunday by Gov. Gavin Newsom that bans all plastic shopping bags. California had already banned thin plastic shopping bags at supermarkets and other stores,

California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed SB 1053 into law on Sunday, which bans plastic bags from being provided at grocery store checkouts. The Golden State was the first in the country to enact a law banning plastic grocery bags with the passing of SB 270 in 2014.