A California judge placed a temporary block on a Chino Valley Unified School District Board of Education policy that requires parents to be notified if their child changes his or her gender identity.
In a landmark case, the Spreckels Union School District in Salinas, California, has agreed to a $100,000 settlement with a mother and her daughter, who accused staff at Buena Vista Middle School of secretly guiding the 11-year-old girl to transition to a male identity.
In November 2017, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced that MosquitoMate, Inc. had submitted plans to infect live male mosquitoes with a bacteria called "Wolbachia pipientis," which enhances WNV infection.
California's legislature advanced Senate Bill 94 last week, which would allow California prison inmates serving a sentence of life without parole (LWOP) to petition for re-sentencing if the offense occurred before June 5, 1990, and they have completed at least 25 years of their sentence.