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e. Kamala Harris was elected the attorney general of California in 2010, becoming the first woman, Black American, and South Asian American to hold the office in the state's history. She took office on January 3, 2011, and would be re-elected in 2014 to serve until she resigned on January 3, 2017, to take her seat in the United States Senate.
Jul 27, 2024 · But as Attorney General, Harris pushed for and saw the passage of a statewide anti-truancy bill that exported some of the thinking to California as a whole. Under that law, some parents were arrested by local law enforcement and faced harsher penalties, including Cheree Peoples, who was very publicly “perp-walked” during a 2013 arrest in Orange County in Southern California.
Oct 24, 2019 · Politics. California’s tough-on-crime past haunts Kamala Harris. Starting in the late 1960s, one lurid killing after another spawned outrage and harsh sentencing laws in California. Above, from ...
Jul 24, 2024 · Prison reform. Several years after Harris was elected state attorney general in 2010, California voters passed a ballot measure that enacted sweeping sentencing reforms across the state. In an ...
Sep 10, 2024 · After earning her law degree at University of California College of the Law, San Francisco in 1989, Harris joined the Alameda County district attorney’s office. During her eight years there, she ...
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Jul 21, 2024 · According to Jamilah King, writing for Mother Jones in 2018, “Harris has long tried to bridge the tricky divide between social progressivism and the work required as a prosecutor — sometimes more successfully than others.” One characteristic example: As San Francisco district attorney, Harris vowed not to seek the death penalty, but as California attorney general, her office argued it ...
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Jan 23, 2019 · As she geared up to run for California attorney general in 2010, Harris positioned herself as a criminal justice reformer, focusing on improving support for people leaving prison, and published a ...
