Anti-Eavesdropping Act, which would limit storing of recordings, passes first committee By LEVI SUMAGAYSAY A bill making its way through the California Legislature would prohibit makers of smart home speakers from saving or storing recordings without users’ explicit consent. The Anti-Eavesdropping Act, which cleared its first committee Wednesday, would also ban smart speaker ... Read More

A Central Coast legislator has introduced a bill he says will close a legal “loophole” that may have helped a Paso Robles police sergeant under investigation for sexual assault dodge criminal charges and quietly resign. Assemblyman Jordan Cunningham, a Republican who represents San Luis Obispo and northern Santa Barbara counties, introduced ... Read More

By Matt Fountain A digital privacy package introduced to the California Legislature includes a bill by a Central Coast assemblyman seeking to make it illegal for manufacturers of devices such as smart speakers to eavesdrop on consumers for data collection. With various cases of web-connected “smart” devices sharing user information without their ... Read More

It’s no secret that the 2018 election did not go well for California Republicans. With only 20 seats in the state Assembly, 11 seats in the state Senate, and 7 Republicans in our state’s Congressional delegation, Republicans have our work cut out to regain trust from the California electorate. California is ... Read More

Republican Assemblyman Jordan Cunningham will return to Sacramento to serve a second term with a win over Democratic Party challenger Bill Ostrander, according to unofficial voting totals. Cunningham, an attorney with a practice in Templeton, received 63,771 votes on Nov. 6, garnering 58.6 percent of the total vote. Ostrander, a SLO-based activist ... Read More

Imagine your sons or daughters are lured away by manipulative strangers and taken against their will. Imagine they are transported out of the area far away from any family or friends and then forced to do unspeakable things to make a profit for their human traffickers. This nightmare is a ... Read More

BY GABBY FERREIRA A 35-year-old Sacramento man was arrested early Friday morning in San Luis Obispo on suspicion of trafficking a 14-year-old girl, police said. At about 1:40 a.m., an officer stopped a car in the 3000 block of Broad Street for vehicle code violations, according to a San Luis Obispo Police ... Read More

BY MATT FOUNTAIN A bill to broaden protections for adult victims of labor trafficking and pimping passed the state Legislature on Friday and now awaits Gov. Jerry Brown’s approval. The bill is one of four introduced by Assemblyman Jordan Cunningham of Templeton that seek to combat the trafficking of people for the purposes of ... Read More

BY KAYTLYN LESLIEkleslie@thetribunenews.com A bill that would ensure SLO County received $85 million to help mitigate the impact of the Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant closure is on its way to the governor. The bill, coauthored by Sen. Bill Monning and Assemblyman Jordan Cunningham, passed the state Assembly on Monday in a 55-1 ... Read More