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California Democrats block bill to make sex trafficking of minors a felony again. They block a bill that targets the buyers of minors in the sex trafficking industry. Governor Gavin Newsom is getting involved in the latest fight over child sex trafficking.
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California Democrats block Bill to make sex trafficking of minors a felony again.
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Governor Gavin Newsom is getting involved in the latest fight over child sex trafficking.
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The governor's office is speaking up after lawmakers today blocked an effort to crack down on the buyers
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of the child sex trafficking industry, specifically those who buy 16- and 17-year-olds for sex.
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Let's get to KCRA 3 Capitol correspondent Ashley Zavala, who was first to report the governor's involvement.
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Curtis, this is now the third time the governor's office has gotten involved in this kind of fight
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The governor signaling his support for that proposal to make it an automatic felony to
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In a statement exclusively to us this afternoon, really just within the last hour,
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The law should treat all sex predators who solicit minors the same as a felony,
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regardless of the intended victim's age, full stop.
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This comes after the Assembly Public Safety Committee this morning blocked this proposal
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from moving forward that targets the buyers of the child sex trafficking industry.
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It's written by Assemblymember Maggie Krell, a Democrat who has spent the last two decades
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Now, before getting elected to the Assembly, she was a prosecutor for the California Department
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of Justice, but Democratic leaders say they have concerns about possible unintended consequences
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with this, how the automatic felony for the purchase of the teens could impact the LGBTQ
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Here's what the chairman of the committee, Nick Schultz and Krell, had to say right after
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Like, why can't Democrats immediately get on board with something like this?
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First of all, the exploitation of any children, as we heard in there in the comments I made
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in the dais, it's already unlawful to do anything like that in the state of California.
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What we're talking about is a very specific, narrow issue of whether or not the stiff penalties
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that apply in, say, a human trafficking context should apply in a non-human trafficking context
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As you know, under Senate Bill 1414, which passed last year, that's a mandatory sex offender
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And that doesn't mean that we shouldn't at least entertain that conversation, but how
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that might apply to an 18- and 17-year-old in a relationship might be different from what
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we might see, from what we think about people that are out here trying to get somebody off
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So I think that these are important conversations we have to have.
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I don't think we're doing enough to protect children from sex trafficking.
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It's clear from driving down to the blade right now.
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If you needed more reason, like, keep piling up.
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I'm sitting here, because I want to talk about the RFK situation.
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The fact that they're saying, no, 16- and 17-year-olds, it's not going to be a felony.
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He has the Office of Public Policy and Office of Legislative Affairs.
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So, Gavin Newsom can say, well, it came from my office, and there's people looking into that.
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You have to catch these nuances that are coming out.
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But the strategy in California is decriminalize everything.
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The only thing that I can take from California is that the only felony that the government of California has committed is the crime of not having common sense.
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And that just seems to be a reoccurring theme of whatever's going on in California, which takes me back to my original point.
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If there's one thing you could say about Florida is, at the very least, we have common sense here.
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And leadership on down is just like, nope, this is the where.
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We're not going to have kids doing social media at young ages, whereas you have California with just like wokeness gone wrong.
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And here's just another example of just the mind-bending exercises you have to go through to understand what California is like.
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This is one of the members of the LGBTQ community who is an assemblyman who voted against the bill explaining why this bill would target members of the gay community.
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By the way, those eyebrows were done by, I want to say, no, those are legit.
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So Assemblyman Gonzalez is concerned that anti-trafficking bill overlooks the LGBTQ community.
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Again, I mean, when you say stuff like this, you know what you tell me?
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If you want us to baptize your kids in the eyes of LGBTQ community, bring them to California.
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If you want your kids to be overly exposed to certain things prior to them being at the proper age, bring them to California.
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And by the way, for some of you guys that are watching this, if you're all for it, move to California.
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If you want your kids to not be protected from dumb policies like this.
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