The law, which received Gov. Gavin Newsom's signature on Monday, prohibits schools from having policies that require parents to be notified if their child identifies as transgender.
"This is the final straw," Musk wrote in a post on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, adding that this law and others are "attacking both families and companies."
SpaceX headquarters will also move from California to Texas, Musk announced in a separate X post.
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Three death row inmates have been resentenced, Alameda County District Attorney Pamela Price announced Tuesday afternoon.
Ernest Dykes, who was convicted of killing a 9-year-old boy in 1993, is expected to be released from prison next year with two years of probation. Keith Thomas, sentenced to death in 1997, will receive 23 years to life in prison. But having served 31 years, Thomas will be up for parole. And Gregory Tate, sentenced in 1993, will receive a life sentence without parole.
In April, a U.S. District Court judge ordered Price to conduct a review of all of Alameda County's 35 death penalty sentences with inmates still alive, which date back to the late 1970s. The order came after the court, while reviewing Dykes' case, found that prosecutors had excluded Black and Jewish people from the jury.
Price said that the inquiry identified a number of cases with prosecutorial misconduct. Thomas' case, she said, relied on racist imagery and stereotypes used by prosecutor James Anderson that have since been banned through recent California laws like 2020's Racial Justice Act.
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Millbrae citizens, angry over the potential conversion of a hotel into a permanent supportive housing project, are in the middle of a special election that could recall two councilmembers who support it.
Millbrae Vice Mayor Maurice Goodman and Councilmember Angelina Cahalan are facing a petitioned recall election that opened June 24 and closes July 23.
Some residents in their districts are upset that the two supported a move by the San Mateo County Board of Supervisors to acquire the La Quinta Inn and Suites at 1390 El Camino Real, a 100-room hotel and restaurant developed in 1988. It was one of two hotels that the supervisors voted to purchase last September. Both met the requirements for permanent supportive housing. The second location is in South San Francisco at 721 Airport Blvd.
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San Mateo County Superior Court will reduce several services due to state budget cuts, the court announced Monday.
Most of the cuts will impact civil, probate or family law cases, the court said. In child custody cases, for example, the time between meeting with a counselor and the first hearing with a judge will increase from 8-10 weeks to as much as four months.
Court officials said that parties can expect some of their civil or family law judgements to be delayed for up to six months. However, most criminal proceedings appear to be unaffected by the changes.
The reductions come as Gov. Gavin Newsom tries to close an almost $45 billion budget shortfall statewide. The state budget, passed in June, cuts $97 million from the state's trial courts to address this shortfall. San Mateo County Superior Court said that it is responsible for approximately $1.45 million of those cuts.
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To caution against the potential risks of artificial intelligence, five protesters took to the gates of a San Francisco home tied to OpenAI CEO Sam Altman on Monday afternoon.
Altman and executives of other technology companies, speakers at the demonstration said, wield excessive power in the development of AI, technologies which perform tasks conventionally done by humans, such as driving.
Without responsible stewardship, speakers claimed AI could endanger public safety and jobs as human work is delegated to autonomous machines.
As passersby strolled Lombard Street to view its nearby hairpin turns, five demonstrators -- three of which were speakers -- pilloried OpenAI's business practices and urged AI regulations and protections against job loss. The demonstration marks the first of more to come against technology executives outside the Russian Hill home, speaker and labor journalist Steve Zeltzer said.
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The Mendocino County Sheriff's Office on Tuesday identified a man shot and killed last week in Point Arena, allegedly during an argument.
Point Arena resident Pan Jasper Brady, 47, allegedly shot and killed 54-year-old Kevin Taeuffer, who was from Annapolis in Sonoma County.
Sheriff's deputies received a call at 8:06 p.m. Thursday from Brady, saying he shot someone.
Brady allegedly told deputies during an argument between him and the victim, Brady pulled a handgun and shot Taeuffer. Deputies said Brady then secured the gun and waited for law enforcement.
Officers arrived to the location in the 38500 block of Eureka Hill Road and found Taeuffer dead from at least one gunshot wound.
Deputies arrested Brady and booked him into Mendocino County Jail on suspicion of homicide and using a firearm during the commission of a homicide. He is being held on $1 million bail.
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Monterey County District Attorney Jeannine Pacioni announced charges Tuesday for the 1991 cold case killings of an elderly woman and her son-in-law in Prunedale.
The charges allege that Ira Ulysses Bastian, 85, killed Eva Thompson, 79, and George Smith, 67, who owned and resided at Smith's Restaurant on El Camino Real in Prunedale with his wife Anna Smith, Thompson's daughter.
According to the District Attorney's Office, Anna Smith returned home on Nov. 11, 1991, to find her husband and mother brutally stabbed to death. Thompson, who was unable to walk, was found slain in her hospital-style bed, the office added.
Bastian, who was 52 at the time, was a former employee of Smith's Restaurant and was considered a suspect in the initial investigation, though no arrests were made, Deputy District Attorney Matthew L'Heureux said.
Authorities arrested Bastian without incident Monday after a round of DNA testing produced enough evidence to warrant his arrest and the charges against him, prosecutors said.
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A teenage girl and two men were shot and injured Monday in Stockton.
Police said a 14-year-old girl, an 18-year-old man and a 19-year-old man were walking at Kentfield Road and Coventry Drive when a vehicle allegedly drove by and someone inside fired multiple shots in their direction. The shooting was called in at 4:50 p.m.
All three victims were taken to a hospital and are expected to survive, police said.
No suspect information was immediately available Tuesday in connection with the shooting.\
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