Crime Disinformation
FAKE: California provides tablets to prisoners who use them to watch pornographic material & groom kids.
FACT: The report offered zero evidence for the claim.
MISLEADING: Governor Newsom personally made or ordered a parole decision.
FACT: The Board of Parole Hearings, an independent agency, made the parole decision.
NOT TRUE: California law prohibits jails from turning people over to federal immigration authorities.
FACT: California law does not prohibit jails from turning over people convicted of felonies or serious misdemeanors to federal immigration authorities.
False Claim: “Governor Newsom is soft on crime”
Governor Newsom more than doubled the California National Guard on the Southern Border to protect against fentanyl trafficking.
Stealing under $950 is NOT legal in California
The felony threshold of $950 was not changed under Prop 36, which recently passed in California.
False Claim: California is unsafe
Preliminary 2024 data shows violent crime in California cities declined 8.3%, compared to a 5.5% decline in non-California US cities.