California Democrats shut down stronger sentencing for trafficking minors

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(The Center Square) - Despite passing unanimously with bipartisan support
in the California Senate, a bill to bring California’s sentencing for
trafficking minors in line with other states by making it a “serious
felony” failed in the California Assembly Public Safety Committee due to
unanimous Democratic abstention.

SB 14 would have made trafficking of minors a serious felony that would
qualify under California’s three strikes law, which keeps dangerous,
serial criminals off the streets, and make individuals convicted of the
crime ineligible for early release.

Due to the Democratic supermajority in the California legislature, united
opposition by elected Democrats, who abstained from the measure, meant the
measure could be kept at bay.

While California Democrats remained silent on the measure, bill author
Senator Shannon Grove (R-Bakersfield) said, “After passing the Senate with
a unanimous, bipartisan vote, I had hoped Democrats on the Assembly Public
Safety Committee, led by Assemblyman Reggie Jones-Sawyer, would agree to
make sex trafficking of a minor a serious felony. I am profoundly
disappointed that committee Democrats couldn’t bring themselves to support
the bill, with their stubborn and misguided objection to any penalty
increase regardless of how heinous the crime.”

SB 14 faced no such opposition in the Senate, and secured substantial
support from a broad coalition of interest groups ranging from law
enforcement agencies, prosecutors’ offices, cities and counties, to
nonprofit agencies, anti-human trafficking groups and even corporations
such as UPS.

With the world’s richest man, Elon Musk, taking to Twitter to ask how
trafficking minors is “not already a serous felony,” serious public
opposition is emerging online and among concerned citizens.

In response to public backlash, Assembly Speaker Robert Rivas (D-Salinas)
has signaled support for the bill and announced he held a discussion with
Senator Grove, and told Californians to stay tuned for new developments.


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