Anita Chabria is a California columnist for the Los Angeles Times, based in Sacramento. Before joining The Times, she worked for the Sacramento Bee as a member of its statewide investigative team and previously covered criminal justice and City Hall. Follow her on Bluesky at anitachabria.bsky.social and on X at @anitachabria.
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L.A. County Dist. Atty. Nathan Hochman reversed his decision to pursue felony charges against an LAPD officer who secretly recorded his colleagues making racist and misogynistic remarks.
Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco confiscated ballots, claiming he was investigating election fraud. California’s Supreme Court justices called Bianco’s logic “bizarre.”
David Ellison is threatening to pull Paramount out of Hollywood if the state continues its lawsuit against his merger. Is that a real threat?
In charging LAPD officer Daniel Flores with 16 felonies for his secret tapes of officers making ugly comments, the district attorney is sending the wrong message.
Some retailers mine your data, down to how long your mouse hovers, to jack up prices to as much as they think you will pay. It’s called surveillance pricing, and California legislators seem ambivalent when it comes to stopping the growing trend.
California has sued the Trump administration 83 times in his second term, with more victories than losses.
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Chabria: Prop. 39 would turn Trump conspiracy into California law. It has a chance of passing
A legal fight has broken out around Proposition 39, a proposal to require voters to prove their citizenship at polls with ID. It’s a partisan attempt to recycle the election conspiracy lies of President Donald Trump into California law -- and it has a chance of passing.
In 2024, tough-on-crime types pushed Proposition 36 into law by promising that more incarceration would be matched with more treatment for those addicted to drugs.
After an AI language model recently broke free from its containment and committed what would be multiple white-collar felonies if done by a human, a Republican congressman introduced a measure for more regulation.
This week, OpenAI revealed that one of its AI models broke out into the wild and did a bunch of hinky stuff. How many times do we need to hear this story before someone does something to protect humans?