New Water Organization Launched
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Statement by Assemblymember Mike A. Gipson on the mass shooting in Fresno
CARSON, Calif --- Within days of the Saugus High School shooting in Santa Clarita, another mass shooting has claimed the lives of four victims and injured six others. Friends were enjoying a football watch party when the gunman entered through the backyard and began firing.
Statement by Assemblymember Mike A. Gipson on the Saugus High School shooting in Santa Clarita
CARSON, Calif --- “This morning’s senseless school shooting has claimed the lives of a 16 y/o female student and a 14 y/o male student. Four other students, including the suspect, are hospitalized as the result of gun attack at Saugus High School in Santa Clarita,” said Assemblymember Mike A. Gipson (D-Carson).
Gipson Denounces Supreme Court’s Reversal of DACA
SACRAMENTO, Calif --- Assembly Caucus Chair Mike A. Gipson (D-Carson) released the following statement:
“The United States Supreme Court has managed to roll back the DACA status of children of undocumented immigrants. The majority of DACA recipients are right here in California, more than 220,000. This is the only home they have ever known.”
35TH AIDS WALK LOS ANGELES CONTINUES ITS MARCH TO END THE HIV/AIDS EPIDEMIC AT DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES’ GRAND PARK WITH THE SUPPORT OF ELECTEDS, CELEBRITIES, ADVOCATES, SPONSORS & COMMUNITY
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Alex Medina, APLA Health
Los Angeles, Oct. 20, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Today AIDS Walk Los Angeles held its 35th annual walk that raised vital funds that help to build support and awareness of the continuing need to address the HIV/AIDS epidemic. Ten thousand participants, volunteers and sponsors raised nearly $1.6 million. Individuals are able to increase that amount by donating before November 15, 2019.
More Californians can seek gun removals after Newsom signs new firearm laws
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SACRAMENTO — California will expand its landmark gun violence restraining order law, allowing co-workers and employers to ask a judge to take away someone’s firearms and extending the maximum length of the bans.
Gov. Gavin Newsom signed four bills Friday to bolster the restraining order program, which now allows police, immediate family members and roommates to request that a judge temporarily confiscate firearms and ammunition from people they believe pose a danger to themselves or others.
Governor Newsom Signs Bill to Stem the Tide of Untraceable Firearms
SACRAMENTO, Calif --- A measure authored by Assemblymember Mike A. Gipson (D-Carson), Assembly Bill 879 responds to the state and nationwide proliferation in untraceable firearms, commonly referred to as “Ghost Guns”, and the ever increasing human toll these illegal weapons continue to take on our society.
Governor Newsom Signs Bill to attract high-quality medical providers to South L.A.
SACRAMENTO, Calif --- A new law, signed by California Governor Gavin Newsom on October 3rd, will accelerate efforts to bring high-quality health providers to one of the most medically underserved areas of the nation: South Los Angeles.