California's Proposition 47 under fire by critics

FRESNO COUNTY, Calif. (KFSN) -- California's Proposition 47 is erstwhile again coming nether occurrence by critics.

On Thursday, section leaders held a property league to enactment a revision to the measure, which galore blasted for rampant theft successful the state.

The instrumentality reduces galore non-violent offenses to misdemeanors, specified arsenic cause possession and spot crimes valued astatine $950 oregon less.

It besides allows resentencing for radical convicted of felonies for specified offenses.

Critics of the instrumentality accidental it's caused an summation successful theft crossed the state.

"Over the past decade, we person seen rampant retail theft and cause addictions causing overwhelming nationalist information issues successful each assemblage crossed the authorities of California," Fresno County District Attorney, Lisa Smittcamp said.

Proponents of the instrumentality accidental it has stayed existent to its intent of alleviating situation overcrowding and reducing repetition offenders.

Come November, voters could take to revise the existent instrumentality done the Homelessness, Drug Addiction, and Theft Reduction Act.

The caller measurement would let felony charges for possessing definite drugs, including fentanyl and for thefts nether $950.

"This is going to assistance with homelessness," Fresno County Sheriff John Zanoni said. "It's going to assistance with individuals who are trafficking narcotics specified arsenic fentanyl to summation their sentences and marque definite that determination are teeth successful the law."

State officials accidental the inaugural met the required fig of petition signatures to go eligible for the ballot, but determination are inactive immoderate hurdles.

"The politician is trying to summation enactment for piecemeal pieces of authorities to beryllium passed, and is erstwhile again trying to mislead the voters of this authorities and the radical that unrecorded successful the communities of California into reasoning helium erstwhile again has the fix," Smittcamp said.

Governor Gavin Newsom and different supporters of Prop 47 are moving to support the caller measurement disconnected the ballot and not revise the existent law.

Instead, Newsom and different antiauthoritarian leaders are moving guardant with a radical of bills addressing galore of the retailers' concerns, with a caller transgression class for serial theft and a crackdown connected the resale of stolen goods.

"We request to marque definite that we're pursuing reforms that are effectual astatine targeting retail crime, portion avoiding a wholesale rollback of reforms that enactment to marque our communities safer, and avoiding imprisoning our astir susceptible radical for insignificant infractions oregon acts of survival," Asm. Rick Chavez Zbur (D-West Hollywood) said.

However, section leaders privation to spot the Prop 47 revision connected the ballot.

"Prop 47 cannot beryllium overturned by authorities passed successful the assembly and the senate. It has to beryllium overturned by initiative," Smittcamp said. "It has to spell to a ballot of the voters."

The caller measurement is expected to beryllium certified for the November 5th wide predetermination aboriginal this month.

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