This week’s episode of The CAP·impact Podcast features a case study in one of Ray LeBov’s Rules for Effective Lobbying: not letting the perfect become the enemy of the good. Today we are talking with folks from two organizations that regular readers and podcast listeners will be familiar with – the California Partnership
A first response to reports that California taxpayers have paid roughly $25 million in the last three years to settle sexual harassment-related cases is outrage. A closer look reveals a more complex picture. LAPD paid, on average, $30 million annually from 2012-2014 to resolve legal claims involving officers’ conduct. Since 2006, CHP
The Partnership, the brain trust, and the activists working to end domestic violence
This week, I’m posting another conversation I had with Erin Scott – Board Chair of the California Partnership to End Domestic Violence. As we allude to in our conversation, she is also the Executive Director of
As I’ve discussed before, the #MeToo and We Said Enough movements are starting to bring change to the California legislature’s persistent culture of sexual assault and harassment. That process of bringing change has been slow, perhaps too slow.
Furthering that concern are the reports about state Senator Tony Mendoza. He
The Partnership’s Push to Increase State Funding to Prevent Domestic Violence
As a heads up, this podcast was recorded early last week, before Governor Brown revealed his January budget proposal. Some of the conversation is dated in that regard, now that this post is going up after the budget proposal was revealed. That
For today’s podcast, I sat down with Erinn Ryberg (McGeorge Class of ’13), Leg Director for Asm. Cristina Garcia, to discuss one of the bills her office worked on last year, AB 1033, which addressed the issue of stealthing. As Erinn describes it, “It’s a new name for something that’s been going
Recent action at the state, federal, and private corporate levels provides a window into the many ways to attack the problem of nondisclosure agreements in sexual harassment settlements.
Bar Nondisclosure Agreements in Settlements
A decade ago, the California Legislature changed the law to bar nondisclosure agreements in settlements of certain serious sexual
Hello, and welcome to Episode 5 of my Misconception Monday series. In this series of podcasts, I identify and dispel common misconceptions that are related to the many aspects of the California legislative process.
Today we’ll be moving away from podcasts on common misconceptions as they relate to bills.
I spoke about this issue yesterday on ABC 10 in Sacramento with Giacomo Luca.
Matt Lauer and Garrison Keillor are the most recent men terminated by their private employers because of credible allegations of sexual misconduct. Contract terms set out the ability of the media outlets to discipline these employees. But what
The Assembly Rules Subcommittee on Harassment, Discrimination, and Retaliation Prevention and Response met yesterday to discuss how the institution will address and change the Assembly – and Senate’s – policies to address and fix the pervasive culture of sexual harassment in the Building.
Earlier this week, Jon Fleischman gave a fairly comprehensive