SACRAMENTO – Governor Gavin Newsom has signed SB 673, Senator Steven Bradford’s “Ebony Alert” legislation.
California will become the first state to create an alert notification system to address the crisis of missing Black children and young Black women between the ages of 12 and 25.
SACRAMENTO – Senator Steven Bradford (D-Gardena) issued the following statement on the selection of Laphonza Butler to fill the seat of the late U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein:
Amendments to SB 490 mark the first substantive legislation introduced following the CA Reparations Task Force’s Final Report
August 22, 2023
SACRAMENTO – Senator Steven Bradford (D-Gardena) has introduced legislation that will create a new state agency in California to administer reparations to the descendants of slavery. The California American Freedman Affairs Agency is one of the recommendations that came directly as a result of Senator Bradford’s work on the California Reparations Task Force.
SB 673 would increase awareness, response and resources
March 23, 2023
SACRAMENTO – Senator Steven Bradford (D-Gardena) has introduced SB 673 to create an “Ebony Alert” notification system to address the often ignored or lack of attention given to Black children and young Black women that are missing in California.
Senator Steven Bradford (D-Gardena) released the following statement on Wednesday’s Special Session hearing of the Senate Committee on Energy, Utilities, and Communications on the topic of high gasoline prices and oil industry profits:
SACRAMENTO – Senator Steven Bradford (D-Gardena) announced detailed amendments to Senate Bill 50 that would prohibit a peace officer from initiating a traffic stop for a low-level violation, unless there is a separate, independent reason.
SACRAMENTO – Senator Steven Bradford (D-Gardena) issued the following statement on the release of the police video showing the beating death of Tyre Nichols at the hands of the Memphis Police Department:
“The beating and murder of Tyre Nichols by five Memphis Police Officers is brutal and heart-breaking.
“In the video, I see no “protect and serve.” I see an out of control and outside the bounds of their authority attack on an unarmed Black man.
SACRAMENTO – Senator Steven Bradford (D-Gardena) released the following statement on the mass shooting in Monterey Park after a Lunar New Year celebration on January 21:
