Police tend to use jaywalking tickets as a pretext to stop African American pedestrians. By decriminalizing jaywalking, this problem could be erased without making the streets any more dangerous for pedestrians.
Is Skipping School Illegal in California?
Skipping school is something most students do at one point or another —most schools even have an unofficial “senior ditch day” where students cut class near the end of the year. But it turns out that under California Penal Code section 270.1(a) (PC), when a minor misses too much school, they can be labeled […]
