One year after the passage of Proposition 47, the debate around the California initiative that reduced six nonviolent felonies including drug possession to misdemeanors is only intensifying.

More than 900,000 signatures have been collected for a new statewide initiative to amend Proposition 47. Prop 47, passed back in 2014, reclassified certain low-level drug and theft offenses to ...

Critics who blame California’s 2014 Proposition 47 for runaway drug addiction, retail theft and urban squalor said Thursday they have collected enough signatures to qualify a November ballot ...

Proposition 47 achieved its goal of decreasing incarceration by reclassifying certain drug- and theft-related felony offenses as misdemeanors, but contributed to a rise in property crime as a result.

California Democrats are playing "dirty tricks" in response to bipartisan efforts to place a measure to reform Proposition 47 on the November ballot in favor of other public safety bills ...

A new initiative to roll back Proposition 47 has now officially qualified for the November ballot after garnering nearly 1,000,000 signatures. Prop 47, passed back in 2014, re-classified certain ...

California Gov. Gavin Newsom said Friday that he and fellow Democratic leaders in the state legislature are attempting to negotiate a Proposition 47 reform measure off the November ballot ...

WILL MATTHEWS WITH CALIFORNIANS FOR SAFETY AND JUSTICE SAYS PROP 47 WAS CREATED OVER A DECADE AGO OUT OF A NEED TO REDUCE CALIFORNIA’S PRISON POPULATION. THE SUPREME COURT SAID. CALIFORNIA ...

California Gov. Gavin Newsom is seeking legislation to crack down on property crimes while stopping short of asking voters to reconsider Proposition 47, a politically volatile ballot initiative ...