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Committee advances bill to close a gap that can impede prosecutions for threats to locations such as schools and houses of worship
Summary
AB 237 would clarify Penal Code section 422 to cover threats aimed at locations (schools, places of worship, voting centers) where threats may not name specific individuals; the committee advanced the bill after witnesses described disruptive, targeted threats and the author accepted committee amendments.
Assemblymember Patel introduced AB 237 to close what she described as a prosecutorial gap in Penal Code section 422 (criminal threats). The bill would clarify that threats targeting locations where people gather—airports, voting centers, places of worship, daycares, hospitals, and schools—constitute criminal threats even if an individual is not named.
Pat Espinosa of the San Diego County District…
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