A new law in California will require bars and clubs to offer drug-testing devices to protect patrons from drinks spiked with "date rape drugs." The law, Assembly Bill 1013, took effect...
A new California law will block cops from using DNA from sexual assault victims for any purposes outside of that investigation. Police in San Francisco had used the data to tie victims to other cri...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5PgKdbO6ido California Penal Code § 261 PC defines rape as the use of force, threats, or fraud to have non-consensual sex with another person. A conviction is a felo...
California lawmakers said Monday they have started drafting legislation that would close a loophole in a century-old rape law that fails to protect unmarried women.
Women's rights activists have condemned a California law that lets transgender inmates choose their prisons after a biological male in a women's prison was charged with rape.
Arkansas Source: California California separates rape, sodomy and rape by instrumentation. All crimes listed here are also punishable by California’s “One-Strike Law”, Penal Code 667....
In supposedly progressive California, eliminating a law that gives less severe...
From the definition of rape to a person's ability to consent—the laws about sexual violence vary from state to state. Learn more about laws in California.
California’s rape laws are finally entering the 21st century. Gov. Jerry Brown signed legislation Monday that closed a 19th-century legal loophole that overturned a rape conviction because the victim was not married. In January, the Second Appellate District Court in Los Angeles cited an 1872 law when it overturned the 2009 conviction of Julio Morales, who snuck into the bedroom of a friend’s sister while she was sleeping and pretended to be the woman’s boyfriend. Upon waking, the victim told police she found Morales having sex with her, ...
Governor Jerry Brown signs two new bills into law inspired by the Stanford rape case.