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"content": "\u003cp>In Texas and California, new laws call on the people of each state to watch and report their neighbors — and reap a reward for doing so. Unusual, yes — although it’s a concept that dates back to the earliest days of the American republic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But what do Civil War-era legislators raging about sick mules and wet gunpowder have to do with \u003ca href=\"https://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/87R/billtext/pdf/SB00008F.pdf\">Texas Senate Bill 8\u003c/a>, its “heartbeat” abortion law, and \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB1327\">California Senate Bill 1327\u003c/a>, its newest gun act?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They all \u003ca href=\"https://cite.case.law/cal/106/113/\">set out bounties\u003c/a>, with the state entrusting its citizens to enforce the law and promising remuneration to those who do.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Texas law, passed in 2021, bans abortions if a doctor detects a fetal heartbeat, usually at about six weeks — but it’s not up to the state to enforce it. Instead, people anywhere in the United States can sue anyone who helped a Texan get an abortion. Successful lawsuits offer at least $10,000 per reported abortion, and the defendant, not the state, pays the plaintiff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As U.S. Chief Justice John Roberts noted, the law ran contrary to abortion rights guaranteed under Roe v. Wade, then the law of the land. Instead, he wrote in a \u003ca href=\"https://www.oyez.org/cases/2021/21-463\">concurring opinion\u003c/a>, “Texas has employed an array of stratagems designed to shield its unconstitutional law from judicial review.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Opponents included the firearms industry, which \u003ca href=\"https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/21/21-463/197884/20211027164758725_21-463%20tsac%20WWH%20-amicus-FPC-final.pdf\">started getting nervous\u003c/a> about the implications for gun owners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sure enough, by the time the U.S. Supreme Court later jettisoned Roe’s right to abortion, perhaps making the machinations of Texas unnecessary, California was already fighting fire with fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last month, Gov. Gavin Newsom \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2022-07-22/newsom-signs-gun-bill-modeled-after-texas-abortion-ban-setting-up\">signed a bounty law\u003c/a> targeting \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/explainers/california-gun-laws-policy-explained/\">not abortion but guns\u003c/a>. It allows private citizens to sue anyone for $10,000 for selling, distributing or importing ghost guns or \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/firearms/regagunfaqs#1\">assault weapons\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://www.texastribune.org/2022/04/19/abortion-texas-wendy-davis/\">new legal challenge to the Texas law\u003c/a> was filed in April. Gun rights supporters have promised to challenge California’s law as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Entrusting the public to enforce the laws and paying them with bounties was once how this country kept the lights on — or, at least, the lanterns lit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Before you had a really strong central state, and before you had a professional civil service, a lot of government services were provided on a bounty or a fee-for-service basis,” said Stanford Law School professor David Freeman Engstrom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To catch wrongdoing back then, the state had to rely on people watching their neighbors — and maybe hauling them to court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11922056\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/GettyImages-1242055989-scaled.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11922056\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/GettyImages-1242055989-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/GettyImages-1242055989-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/GettyImages-1242055989-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/GettyImages-1242055989-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/GettyImages-1242055989-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/GettyImages-1242055989-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/GettyImages-1242055989-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/GettyImages-1242055989-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gov. Gavin Newsom speaks during a news conference on gun legislation at Santa Monica College, where five people were shot and killed in 2013 by a gunman. In July, Newsom signed a bounty law that allows private citizens to sue anyone for $10,000 for selling, distributing or importing so-called ghost guns. \u003ccite>(Hans Gutknecht/MediaNews Group/Los Angeles Daily News via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Today the U.S. government rewards people who report fraudulent war contracts, \u003ca href=\"https://rewardsforjustice.net/\">terrorism\u003c/a>, violations of federal environmental law and Medicaid fraud. The state of California allows financial rewards for people who sue to enforce its Proposition 65 toxics warning law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And, of course, there’s bail-jumping, for which we still have “professional” bounty hunters, though the subjects of bail bounties \u003ca href=\"https://static.prisonpolicy.org/scans/UCLA_Devil%20_in_the_Details.pdf\">sign a contract surrendering many of their rights\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not all bounties pay in money, Engstrom said — under federal environmental laws, a nonprofit is only able to recover attorney’s fees, from a successful injunction either against a polluter; against other violations of environmental law; or to protect an endangered species of animals. But the nonprofit is also able to demonstrate to potential donors that they’re “doing important work out in the world,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Texas and California bounty laws are relatively novel now, said University of Georgia School of Law professor Randy Beck, but he worries about what could come next.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s a long history with these things that is not very happy,” Beck said. “There’s a good reason that legislators have stopped using them, and I think I’m worried that a bunch of legislators are repeating history that we don’t want to repeat.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘We’ve created a monster’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/151514455.pdf\">One of the first bounty laws in history\u003c/a> was enacted in England in the early 1300s. Local officials were supposed to set uniform prices for wine, but some of them were also wine sellers. That conflict of interest complicated King Edward II’s effort to reassert political control over a fractious kingdom.[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"news_11920270,news_11918271\"]But he couldn’t be everywhere. So, he deputized every man in England: If they found local officials selling wine, the Crown would seize that wine — and the person who made the complaint would receive one-third of the seizure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Across the pond and 500 years later, Abraham Lincoln was tiring of fraudulent war contractors. The Union Army had been sold lame horses, sick mules, rancid food, guns that wouldn’t fire and artillery shells filled with sawdust. Sometimes they erroneously purchased them twice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>U.S. Sen. Jacob Howard of Michigan in 1863 led the charge for what would become the False Claims Act, the gold standard for bounty laws that, in its modern form, triples the damages for fraud and allots the person who reports it one-third of the award. The idea, said Howard: “Setting a rogue to catch a rogue, which is the safest and most expeditious way I have ever discovered of bringing rogues to justice.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For most of its history, the U.S. government operated on bribes and bounties, argued Yale law and history professor Nicholas Parrillo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His book “\u003ca href=\"https://academic.oup.com/yale-scholarship-online/book/29766?login=false\">Against the Profit Motive\u003c/a>” details how until the early 1900s, states often left unpaid tax collections to bounty hunters and rewarded them with a portion of the proceeds. Bounties also went to naval officers who captured enemy ships and took a percentage of their value.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>People would rush to punish murder and thievery, Parrillo wrote, but getting communities to follow federal laws that the community itself didn’t agree with — or care about — was impossible without incentives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11922061\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 1349px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/080822-WANTED-SIGN-OAC-CM-scaled-1.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11922061\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/080822-WANTED-SIGN-OAC-CM-scaled-1.jpg\" alt=\"a wanted sign from 1912 announcing a reward for a wanted man\" width=\"1349\" height=\"2048\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/080822-WANTED-SIGN-OAC-CM-scaled-1.jpg 1349w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/080822-WANTED-SIGN-OAC-CM-scaled-1-800x1215.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/080822-WANTED-SIGN-OAC-CM-scaled-1-1020x1549.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/080822-WANTED-SIGN-OAC-CM-scaled-1-160x243.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/080822-WANTED-SIGN-OAC-CM-scaled-1-1012x1536.jpg 1012w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1349px) 100vw, 1349px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A wanted poster issued by the San Francisco chief of police in 1912. \u003ccite>(Image courtesy of UC Berkeley, Bancroft Library via Online Archive of California)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The concept may evoke romantic notions of the California Rangers chasing the \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Joaquins_Gang\">Five Joaquins Gang\u003c/a> through the goldfields for a \u003ca href=\"https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3058&context=etd\">$6,000 bounty\u003c/a>. But bounties had a darker history in the 1800s. The Fugitive Slave Act offered \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/transcripts/1035741353#:~:text=HERSHIPS%3A%20Back%20in%201850%2C%20the,the%20one%20Texas%20just%20enacted.\">rewards for catching enslaved people who had escaped\u003c/a>, and Mexico once offered bounties for Native American scalps.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>U.S. lawmakers had created a system that encouraged bounty hunters to maximize their earnings by finding the most crimes, not the most serious crimes. That meant punishing people for the smallest technical violations of the tax code.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When officials live by bounties, it becomes impossible for laypersons to attribute good motives to those people,” \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=6Uim8TRTWvU\">Parrillo explained\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Parrillo read from a lengthy speech by Maine Republican Thomas Brackett Reed, former speaker of the House in the 1890s: “What community ever bestirred itself against frauds on the internal revenue, against moonshine distilleries, against smuggling, against a hundred other things which are crimes against the United States?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You need to have the officials stimulated by a similar self-interest to that which excites and supports and sustains the criminal.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And that, it should be noted, was in a speech in favor of bounties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“American lawmakers recoiled from what they had done,” Parrillo said. “They said, ‘Oh, my God, we’ve created a monster. We need to shut it down right now.'”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So out went bounties, and, eventually, in came paid professional IRS agents and beat cops, creating a system of salaried civil service employees. In the late 1800s and early 1900s, Congress and state legislatures gradually removed bounties and replaced bounty hunters with paid police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lincoln’s False Claims Act remained in effect, though Congress significantly diluted it in 1943, after a successful False Claims Act lawsuit worried military contractors during World War II. Then came the 1980s, when the Department of Defense was charged \u003ca href=\"https://www.grassley.senate.gov/news/news-releases/qanda-whistleblowers-shine-light-on-fraud\">$7,000 for a coffee pot and $640 for a toilet seat\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a hearing, Rep. Andy Ireland of Florida read from a list of fraudulent sales to the military during the Civil War and harkened back to the False Claims Act. “Here we are \u003ca href=\"https://www.justice.gov/sites/default/files/jmd/legacy/2014/02/09/hear-48-1986.pdf\">120 years later\u003c/a>,” he said, “and we are still confronted with the same problems in military procurement.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Nicholas Parrillo, Yale law and history professor\"]‘American lawmakers recoiled from what they had done. They said, ‘Oh, my God, we’ve created a monster. We need to shut it down right now.’[/pullquote]The act came roaring back, and today, Engstrom said, it’s the “purest form” of a bounty statute.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And California created its own modern version of bounty hunting with voter-approved \u003ca href=\"https://oehha.ca.gov/proposition-65\">Prop. 65\u003c/a>. Since 1986, the state has invited residents to report violations of the environmental law that seeks to warn people about carcinogenic chemicals or those that affect reproduction in the products they consume.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state permits citizens to bring private lawsuits for violations — and reap the rewards if they prevail in court or the company they sued decides to settle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2019, the California Chamber of Commerce fought a new \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/health/2019/03/prop-65-toxic-warning-online-wine-coffee/\">proposed Prop. 65 warning\u003c/a> on acrylamide, a chemical created by cooking food, and one that the state couldn’t say definitively caused cancer. \u003ca href=\"https://casetext.com/case/cal-chamber-of-commerce-v-becerra-2\">The chamber won\u003c/a>, and the chamber’s attorneys said the court action halted “hundreds of pending — but not yet filed — private enforcement actions” about that one chemical alone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the new abortion and gun moves in Texas and California take the resurgence of bounty laws to a new level.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Texas State Sen. Bryan Hughes, the author of the state’s new abortion law, wrote last September in \u003ca href=\"https://www.bryanhughes.com/wsj-heartbeat-bill\">a Wall Street Journal op-ed\u003c/a> that though the law is unconventional, legislators were out of options.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The law departs from conventional enforcement channels, obviously,” Hughes wrote. “In almost every case, the person wronged, and therefore the person who brings the claim, is the plaintiff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In the case of abortion, the wronged party has been extinguished.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For his part, Newsom didn’t discourage accusations that California’s gun law is aimed at merely trolling conservative states, when he took out ads in Florida urging residents to move to California and \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/GavinNewsom/status/1550492943441485824?s=20&t=0Sf1Fxbzc2j9_yfZ9Z1QOQ\">tweeted at Texas Gov. Greg Abbott on July 22\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Texans will wake up this morning to this simple message,” Newsom wrote on Twitter. “If Texas can ban abortion and endanger lives, California can ban deadly weapons of war and save lives. If [Abbott] truly wants to protect the right to life, he should follow California’s lead.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"American Civil Liberties Union\"]‘Replicating the reprehensible Texas model only serves to legitimize and promote it.’[/pullquote]The \u003ca href=\"https://aclucalaction.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/SB-1327-5.2.22.pdf\">American Civil Liberties Union isn’t having it\u003c/a> from either side. In opposing California’s law allowing citizens to sue over ghost guns and assault weapons, the ACLU called the law “an attack on the Constitution.” It said that despite California’s aim to force the Supreme Court to choose between states’ rights and gun rights, California was following a dangerous precedent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Replicating the reprehensible Texas model only serves to legitimize and promote it,” the group wrote in May.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beck, the Georgia law professor, notes in \u003ca href=\"https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4029815\">a forthcoming paper\u003c/a> that red-state \u003ca href=\"https://idahocapitalsun.com/2022/03/23/idaho-governor-signs-bill-effectively-banning-most-abortions/\">Idaho has already adopted\u003c/a> a scaled-down version of the Texas abortion law, and blue-state Illinois is already considering legislation mirroring California’s gun law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Idaho Gov. 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Unusual, yes — although it’s a concept that dates back to the earliest days of the American republic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But what do Civil War-era legislators raging about sick mules and wet gunpowder have to do with \u003ca href=\"https://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/87R/billtext/pdf/SB00008F.pdf\">Texas Senate Bill 8\u003c/a>, its “heartbeat” abortion law, and \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB1327\">California Senate Bill 1327\u003c/a>, its newest gun act?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They all \u003ca href=\"https://cite.case.law/cal/106/113/\">set out bounties\u003c/a>, with the state entrusting its citizens to enforce the law and promising remuneration to those who do.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Texas law, passed in 2021, bans abortions if a doctor detects a fetal heartbeat, usually at about six weeks — but it’s not up to the state to enforce it. Instead, people anywhere in the United States can sue anyone who helped a Texan get an abortion. Successful lawsuits offer at least $10,000 per reported abortion, and the defendant, not the state, pays the plaintiff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As U.S. Chief Justice John Roberts noted, the law ran contrary to abortion rights guaranteed under Roe v. Wade, then the law of the land. Instead, he wrote in a \u003ca href=\"https://www.oyez.org/cases/2021/21-463\">concurring opinion\u003c/a>, “Texas has employed an array of stratagems designed to shield its unconstitutional law from judicial review.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Opponents included the firearms industry, which \u003ca href=\"https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/21/21-463/197884/20211027164758725_21-463%20tsac%20WWH%20-amicus-FPC-final.pdf\">started getting nervous\u003c/a> about the implications for gun owners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sure enough, by the time the U.S. Supreme Court later jettisoned Roe’s right to abortion, perhaps making the machinations of Texas unnecessary, California was already fighting fire with fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last month, Gov. Gavin Newsom \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2022-07-22/newsom-signs-gun-bill-modeled-after-texas-abortion-ban-setting-up\">signed a bounty law\u003c/a> targeting \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/explainers/california-gun-laws-policy-explained/\">not abortion but guns\u003c/a>. It allows private citizens to sue anyone for $10,000 for selling, distributing or importing ghost guns or \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/firearms/regagunfaqs#1\">assault weapons\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://www.texastribune.org/2022/04/19/abortion-texas-wendy-davis/\">new legal challenge to the Texas law\u003c/a> was filed in April. Gun rights supporters have promised to challenge California’s law as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Entrusting the public to enforce the laws and paying them with bounties was once how this country kept the lights on — or, at least, the lanterns lit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Before you had a really strong central state, and before you had a professional civil service, a lot of government services were provided on a bounty or a fee-for-service basis,” said Stanford Law School professor David Freeman Engstrom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To catch wrongdoing back then, the state had to rely on people watching their neighbors — and maybe hauling them to court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11922056\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/GettyImages-1242055989-scaled.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11922056\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/GettyImages-1242055989-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/GettyImages-1242055989-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/GettyImages-1242055989-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/GettyImages-1242055989-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/GettyImages-1242055989-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/GettyImages-1242055989-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/GettyImages-1242055989-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/GettyImages-1242055989-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gov. Gavin Newsom speaks during a news conference on gun legislation at Santa Monica College, where five people were shot and killed in 2013 by a gunman. In July, Newsom signed a bounty law that allows private citizens to sue anyone for $10,000 for selling, distributing or importing so-called ghost guns. \u003ccite>(Hans Gutknecht/MediaNews Group/Los Angeles Daily News via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Today the U.S. government rewards people who report fraudulent war contracts, \u003ca href=\"https://rewardsforjustice.net/\">terrorism\u003c/a>, violations of federal environmental law and Medicaid fraud. The state of California allows financial rewards for people who sue to enforce its Proposition 65 toxics warning law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And, of course, there’s bail-jumping, for which we still have “professional” bounty hunters, though the subjects of bail bounties \u003ca href=\"https://static.prisonpolicy.org/scans/UCLA_Devil%20_in_the_Details.pdf\">sign a contract surrendering many of their rights\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not all bounties pay in money, Engstrom said — under federal environmental laws, a nonprofit is only able to recover attorney’s fees, from a successful injunction either against a polluter; against other violations of environmental law; or to protect an endangered species of animals. But the nonprofit is also able to demonstrate to potential donors that they’re “doing important work out in the world,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Texas and California bounty laws are relatively novel now, said University of Georgia School of Law professor Randy Beck, but he worries about what could come next.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s a long history with these things that is not very happy,” Beck said. “There’s a good reason that legislators have stopped using them, and I think I’m worried that a bunch of legislators are repeating history that we don’t want to repeat.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘We’ve created a monster’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/151514455.pdf\">One of the first bounty laws in history\u003c/a> was enacted in England in the early 1300s. Local officials were supposed to set uniform prices for wine, but some of them were also wine sellers. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>But he couldn’t be everywhere. So, he deputized every man in England: If they found local officials selling wine, the Crown would seize that wine — and the person who made the complaint would receive one-third of the seizure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Across the pond and 500 years later, Abraham Lincoln was tiring of fraudulent war contractors. The Union Army had been sold lame horses, sick mules, rancid food, guns that wouldn’t fire and artillery shells filled with sawdust. Sometimes they erroneously purchased them twice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>U.S. Sen. Jacob Howard of Michigan in 1863 led the charge for what would become the False Claims Act, the gold standard for bounty laws that, in its modern form, triples the damages for fraud and allots the person who reports it one-third of the award. The idea, said Howard: “Setting a rogue to catch a rogue, which is the safest and most expeditious way I have ever discovered of bringing rogues to justice.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For most of its history, the U.S. government operated on bribes and bounties, argued Yale law and history professor Nicholas Parrillo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His book “\u003ca href=\"https://academic.oup.com/yale-scholarship-online/book/29766?login=false\">Against the Profit Motive\u003c/a>” details how until the early 1900s, states often left unpaid tax collections to bounty hunters and rewarded them with a portion of the proceeds. Bounties also went to naval officers who captured enemy ships and took a percentage of their value.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>People would rush to punish murder and thievery, Parrillo wrote, but getting communities to follow federal laws that the community itself didn’t agree with — or care about — was impossible without incentives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11922061\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 1349px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/080822-WANTED-SIGN-OAC-CM-scaled-1.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11922061\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/080822-WANTED-SIGN-OAC-CM-scaled-1.jpg\" alt=\"a wanted sign from 1912 announcing a reward for a wanted man\" width=\"1349\" height=\"2048\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/080822-WANTED-SIGN-OAC-CM-scaled-1.jpg 1349w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/080822-WANTED-SIGN-OAC-CM-scaled-1-800x1215.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/080822-WANTED-SIGN-OAC-CM-scaled-1-1020x1549.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/080822-WANTED-SIGN-OAC-CM-scaled-1-160x243.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/080822-WANTED-SIGN-OAC-CM-scaled-1-1012x1536.jpg 1012w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1349px) 100vw, 1349px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A wanted poster issued by the San Francisco chief of police in 1912. \u003ccite>(Image courtesy of UC Berkeley, Bancroft Library via Online Archive of California)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The concept may evoke romantic notions of the California Rangers chasing the \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Joaquins_Gang\">Five Joaquins Gang\u003c/a> through the goldfields for a \u003ca href=\"https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3058&context=etd\">$6,000 bounty\u003c/a>. But bounties had a darker history in the 1800s. The Fugitive Slave Act offered \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/transcripts/1035741353#:~:text=HERSHIPS%3A%20Back%20in%201850%2C%20the,the%20one%20Texas%20just%20enacted.\">rewards for catching enslaved people who had escaped\u003c/a>, and Mexico once offered bounties for Native American scalps.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>U.S. lawmakers had created a system that encouraged bounty hunters to maximize their earnings by finding the most crimes, not the most serious crimes. That meant punishing people for the smallest technical violations of the tax code.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When officials live by bounties, it becomes impossible for laypersons to attribute good motives to those people,” \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=6Uim8TRTWvU\">Parrillo explained\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Parrillo read from a lengthy speech by Maine Republican Thomas Brackett Reed, former speaker of the House in the 1890s: “What community ever bestirred itself against frauds on the internal revenue, against moonshine distilleries, against smuggling, against a hundred other things which are crimes against the United States?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You need to have the officials stimulated by a similar self-interest to that which excites and supports and sustains the criminal.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And that, it should be noted, was in a speech in favor of bounties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“American lawmakers recoiled from what they had done,” Parrillo said. “They said, ‘Oh, my God, we’ve created a monster. We need to shut it down right now.'”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So out went bounties, and, eventually, in came paid professional IRS agents and beat cops, creating a system of salaried civil service employees. In the late 1800s and early 1900s, Congress and state legislatures gradually removed bounties and replaced bounty hunters with paid police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lincoln’s False Claims Act remained in effect, though Congress significantly diluted it in 1943, after a successful False Claims Act lawsuit worried military contractors during World War II. Then came the 1980s, when the Department of Defense was charged \u003ca href=\"https://www.grassley.senate.gov/news/news-releases/qanda-whistleblowers-shine-light-on-fraud\">$7,000 for a coffee pot and $640 for a toilet seat\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a hearing, Rep. Andy Ireland of Florida read from a list of fraudulent sales to the military during the Civil War and harkened back to the False Claims Act. “Here we are \u003ca href=\"https://www.justice.gov/sites/default/files/jmd/legacy/2014/02/09/hear-48-1986.pdf\">120 years later\u003c/a>,” he said, “and we are still confronted with the same problems in military procurement.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The act came roaring back, and today, Engstrom said, it’s the “purest form” of a bounty statute.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And California created its own modern version of bounty hunting with voter-approved \u003ca href=\"https://oehha.ca.gov/proposition-65\">Prop. 65\u003c/a>. Since 1986, the state has invited residents to report violations of the environmental law that seeks to warn people about carcinogenic chemicals or those that affect reproduction in the products they consume.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state permits citizens to bring private lawsuits for violations — and reap the rewards if they prevail in court or the company they sued decides to settle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2019, the California Chamber of Commerce fought a new \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/health/2019/03/prop-65-toxic-warning-online-wine-coffee/\">proposed Prop. 65 warning\u003c/a> on acrylamide, a chemical created by cooking food, and one that the state couldn’t say definitively caused cancer. \u003ca href=\"https://casetext.com/case/cal-chamber-of-commerce-v-becerra-2\">The chamber won\u003c/a>, and the chamber’s attorneys said the court action halted “hundreds of pending — but not yet filed — private enforcement actions” about that one chemical alone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the new abortion and gun moves in Texas and California take the resurgence of bounty laws to a new level.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Texas State Sen. Bryan Hughes, the author of the state’s new abortion law, wrote last September in \u003ca href=\"https://www.bryanhughes.com/wsj-heartbeat-bill\">a Wall Street Journal op-ed\u003c/a> that though the law is unconventional, legislators were out of options.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The law departs from conventional enforcement channels, obviously,” Hughes wrote. “In almost every case, the person wronged, and therefore the person who brings the claim, is the plaintiff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In the case of abortion, the wronged party has been extinguished.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For his part, Newsom didn’t discourage accusations that California’s gun law is aimed at merely trolling conservative states, when he took out ads in Florida urging residents to move to California and \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/GavinNewsom/status/1550492943441485824?s=20&t=0Sf1Fxbzc2j9_yfZ9Z1QOQ\">tweeted at Texas Gov. Greg Abbott on July 22\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Texans will wake up this morning to this simple message,” Newsom wrote on Twitter. “If Texas can ban abortion and endanger lives, California can ban deadly weapons of war and save lives. If [Abbott] truly wants to protect the right to life, he should follow California’s lead.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://aclucalaction.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/SB-1327-5.2.22.pdf\">American Civil Liberties Union isn’t having it\u003c/a> from either side. In opposing California’s law allowing citizens to sue over ghost guns and assault weapons, the ACLU called the law “an attack on the Constitution.” It said that despite California’s aim to force the Supreme Court to choose between states’ rights and gun rights, California was following a dangerous precedent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Replicating the reprehensible Texas model only serves to legitimize and promote it,” the group wrote in May.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beck, the Georgia law professor, notes in \u003ca href=\"https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4029815\">a forthcoming paper\u003c/a> that red-state \u003ca href=\"https://idahocapitalsun.com/2022/03/23/idaho-governor-signs-bill-effectively-banning-most-abortions/\">Idaho has already adopted\u003c/a> a scaled-down version of the Texas abortion law, and blue-state Illinois is already considering legislation mirroring California’s gun law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Idaho Gov. Brad Little has \u003ca href=\"https://www.courthousenews.com/idaho-governor-signs-texas-styled-abortion-bill-into-law/\">expressed doubts\u003c/a> about the law’s civil enforcement: “While I support the pro-life policy in this legislation, I fear the novel civil enforcement mechanism will, in short order, be proven both unconstitutional and unwise.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It becomes kind of part of this culture war, one state retaliating against another state,” Beck said. “These things are not good in practice, and in my view, I think they have lots of problems. I’d like to kind of keep them in the corners for very, very infrequent use.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Gov. Gavin Newsom signed legislation Friday making California the first state to allow individual citizens to sue gun makers and sellers who violate state law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB1327\">SB 1327\u003c/a>, authored by state Sen. Bob Hertzberg, D-San Fernando Valley, allows individuals to file civil lawsuits against anyone who imports, distributes, manufactures or sells illegal firearms in California, including assault weapons and hard-to-trace ghost guns — both of which are prohibited under the state’s restrictive gun laws.[aside label=\"related coverage\" tag=\"gun-control\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The controversial, high-profile move fulfills a promise Newsom made after the U.S. Supreme Court in December \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/12/10/1053628779/supreme-court-refuse-to-block-texas-abortion-law-as-legal-fights-move-forward\">allowed a Texas anti-abortion-rights law to take effect\u003c/a>. It comes a day after the governor signed a package of eight other bills aimed at further restricting access to guns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Flanked by state Attorney General Rob Bonta, lawmakers and gun violence survivors, Newsom signed the bill at Santa Monica College, where six people were killed in 2013 when a gunman opened fire with an AR-15-type semi-automatic assault weapon that the shooter assembled using component parts without serial numbers. Under the new law, victims of so-called ghost guns will be allowed to sue the companies that manufacture and sell them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom called the legislation “perhaps the most impactful thing we have done in California in decades … allowing 40 million Californians to enforce the law.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Referring to gun rights’ supporters and the firearm industry lobby, Newsom said, \u003cstrong>“\u003c/strong>We are sick and tired of being on the defense in this movement. It’s time to put \u003cem>them\u003c/em> on the defense.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom implored other states to act more boldly if the federal government fails to do so.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I hope other Democratic governors in other states take notice. We need to take these guns off the streets,” he said. “Let’s meet this moment and let’s not have any more moments saying, ‘We could have, would have and should have.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new law, set to go into effect in January, allows citizens to sue violators for $10,000 per weapon involved in a crime. Gun dealers who illegally sell firearms to anyone younger than 21 are also liable for the same damages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom was introduced on Friday by Mia Tretta, who in 2019 was hit in the stomach by a bullet fired from a ghost gun during a mass shooting at her Santa Clarita high school. “You, Gov. 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Other measures require schools to periodically inform parents about the safe storage of firearms, prohibit gun sales on state property, boost inspections of gun dealers, and add child and elder abuse to the list of crimes that block gun ownership.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two weeks ago Newsom signed another bill introduced by San Francisco Democratic Assemblymember Phil Ting that allows individuals, as well as state and local governments, to sue gun manufacturers for negligence that results in injury or death. The bill creates a code of conduct for firearms makers and allows civil lawsuits for violations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new laws come amid a rise in gun violence in recent years — both in California and nationwide — and a spate of mass shootings in just the last few months, including one at a school in Uvalde, Texas, in late May that left 19 children and two teachers dead, and a July 4 massacre in Highland Park, Illinois, that killed seven people and injured dozens more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many of California’s new gun control laws are more than likely to face legal challenges, some possibly making their way to the U.S. Supreme Court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To elevate his ongoing political jousting match with Texas Gov. 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In the ad, the word “abortion” is crossed out and replaced with “gun violence” as the cause of children’s deaths.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If Texas can ban abortion and endanger lives, California can ban deadly weapons of war and save lives,” Newsom said in a statement announcing the ad. “If Governor Abbott truly wants to protect the right to life, I urge him to follow California’s lead.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ad follows a \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6anO63fQyVc\">video message Newsom aired in Florida\u003c/a> last month attacking Gov. 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Other measures require schools to periodically inform parents about the safe storage of firearms, prohibit gun sales on state property, boost inspections of gun dealers, and add child and elder abuse to the list of crimes that block gun ownership.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two weeks ago Newsom signed another bill introduced by San Francisco Democratic Assemblymember Phil Ting that allows individuals, as well as state and local governments, to sue gun manufacturers for negligence that results in injury or death. 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We think it is worth going to jail if necessary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s very similar to the kind of civil disobedience that went on when women were trying to get the right to vote and suffragettes chained themselves to the fence at the White House and got jailed. And so we’re going to take it to the streets and we’ll do whatever is necessary to restore the right of every person in this country to have control over their bodies. Right now, we have what is called government-mandated pregnancy and it cannot stand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Do you and other House Democrats plan to take it to the streets even more? More protests like this? And what kind of effect do you think they have?\u003c/strong>[aside label=\"Related Stories\" tag=\"abortion\"]I can’t express to you what we’re going to do next or if we’re going to do anything next.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was something we did to draw attention to the fact that, once again, we have\u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/07/15/house-abortion-roe-v-wade/\"> passed the Women’s Health Protection Act\u003c/a> out of the House. We’ve done it twice now in less than six months. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/calmatters-en-espanol/2022/07/las-pildoras-abortivas-pronto-estaran-disponibles-en-los-campus-de-california/\">\u003cem>Lea este artículo en español.\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As California’s efforts to enshrine abortion access continue, the University of California and California State University are working to provide medication abortions on all campuses by January 1.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So far, none of the Cal State campuses offers medication abortions, and access within the UC system varies from campus to campus. Both university systems, however, say they are on track to implement \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/2018/07/california-abortion-pills-public-universities/\">a law passed in 2019 requiring their student health centers to provide access to the pills\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As many as 6,228 students could seek medication abortions on UC and Cal State campuses each year, once they are available, according to \u003ca href=\"https://www.ansirh.org/sites/default/files/publications/files/sb320barriers12-20-17.pdf\">Advancing New Standards in Reproductive Health\u003c/a>, a research program at UCSF.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Making medication abortions available on college campuses likely would free up appointments at clinics throughout the state that could then be sought by people living in areas of California where abortion access is limited or who travel here from other states where it is now illegal, multiple reproductive health experts and advocates told CalMatters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Because there is going to be this increase in people coming to California, all of the clinics are going to have, you know, additional demand and kind of struggle with capacity,” said Cathren Cohen, a reproductive rights expert at the UCLA Center on Reproductive Health, Law and Policy. “While it’s not necessarily going to help all the people coming from out of state, it’s just generally going to increase the number of abortion providers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State Sen. 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The average cost of medication at facilities near campus is more than $600, according to the report, and the average wait time is a week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If one part of the population is able to get pregnant, has to go through hoops and overcome barriers to terminate a pregnancy, and in trying to do that has to miss class, that’s kind of an equity issue,” said UCSF OB-GYN and abortion provider Josie Urbina. “You want everybody to have the same access, to have the same opportunities, to be able to concentrate and focus on their studies and their coursework without having to take time off.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Physical exams and ultrasounds are not necessary to safely end a pregnancy, she added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As campuses start providing medication abortions, many students will spend less time on the road and have fewer out-of-pocket costs. The procedure often involves a couple of appointments — either in person or virtually — in addition to a prescription.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The University of California Student Health Insurance Plan, which is required for students, covers the costs of medication abortions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"related coverage\" tag=\"abortion-access\"]However, students in the Cal State system — and those who waive the insurance requirement at UC — will have to pay to receive the medications. California State University, Sacramento expects the cost of medications would be between $60 and $80.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s still a lot of areas where abortion access maybe is less than perfect or varies between different campuses and surrounding communities, or for different students within those communities,” said Alex Niles, chair of government relations for the UC Student Association. “Reproductive health care access, in general, has to be central and fully accessible.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To meet the January 1 deadline, Cal State and UC campuses that don't currently provide medication abortion access — including UC San Diego, UC Davis and UC Riverside — will have to train providers and update information on websites so students know the service is available. The COVID-19 pandemic has delayed some of that preparation, said Annie Sumberg, senior director of medication abortion access for Essential Access Health, a reproductive health advocacy and consulting group that is helping campuses gear up and offering Zoom training sessions for campus providers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several campuses also said they are considering offering telehealth appointments for medication abortion and allowing students to pick up pills at pharmacies closer to their homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The FDA approved having abortion medications sent by mail in 2021, and demand for telehealth has grown during the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cal Poly San Luis Obispo’s assistant vice president for health and wellbeing, Tina Hadaway-Mellis, also raised the possibility of having prescriptions mailed to students. 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"content": "\u003cp>When police are trying to solve a crime, they often turn to Google for help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It makes sense since the Silicon Valley giant has grown into a nearly $1.6 trillion company on the strength of its most valuable asset: Data on billions of people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And often, finding out where someone was at the time of a crime, or what they were Googling before a crime occurs, can be pivotal to investigators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now that the Supreme Court has overturned \u003cem>Roe v. Wade\u003c/em>, privacy advocates fear Google will provide users' data to authorities who may try to target people seeking abortions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When someone uses a Google service on their phone with location history enabled, Google logs that phone's position about every two minutes. 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It is so broad. It is so contrary to our civil rights. And yet, because Google has so much of our data, it's just a ticking time bomb for pregnant people,\" Cahn said of keyword searches.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While it remains unclear whether state authorities will try to prosecute abortion-seekers, and will use digital evidence as part of those potential cases, legal experts say the prospect should be taken seriously.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Privacy experts like Cahn consider the keyword search warrants — being able to comb through everyone who Googled a certain term — a type of fishing expedition that violates user privacy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is the equivalent of going to a library and then trying to search every person who checked out a specific book,\" he added. \"We would never allow that in the analog world.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Such a far-reaching search in the real world would likely violate the Fourth Amendment's ban on unreasonable searches, Cahn said. 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Authorities obtained from Google the names of people who had searched for the address of the home that was set ablaze and made an arrest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The privacy watchdog group Electronic Frontier Foundation says keyword warrants are \"totally incompatible with constitutional protections for privacy and freedom of speech and expression.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jennifer Lynch, a lawyer with the group, said such searches run the risk of implicating innocent people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since the U.S. does not have a national data privacy law that could ban this type of surveillance, the cases are playing out in courts around the country in scattershot fashion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's still a relatively new search technique, and we're just now seeing judges deal with them,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police and prosecutors, however, view geofence and keyword warrants as a way to catch perpetrators of crimes who may have otherwise eluded authorities.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Google's own workers want the company to do more to protect abortion-seekers\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Google has said that if data requests from authorities are overly broad, it will challenge them. \u003ca href=\"https://transparencyreport.google.com/user-data/overview?user_requests_report_period=authority:US\">The company's own statistics show that it produces data for authorities about 80% of the time it receives requests\u003c/a>. There is no public evidence of the company resisting a keyword search warrant in the U.S. \u003ca href=\"https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/04/google-fights-dragnet-warrant-users-search-histories-overseas-while-continuing\">It did, however, push back on one in Brazil\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://blog.google/technology/safety-security/protecting-peoples-privacy-on-health-topics/\">Google earlier this month committed to deleting location data that shows when people go to abortion providers, fertility centers and other \"particularly personal\" places\u003c/a>. 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We're really looking to see how we can best prepare ourselves to support not only the folks or residents here in California, but also any of our folks that need to come from out of state to seek health care services or seek abortions here in the state.[aside postID=\"news_11913144,news_11916950\" label=\"Related Posts\"]\u003cstrong>There's been a lot of stuff on the news, people talking about the influx of patients starting to come to California for care from nearby states now with abortion bans. But according to your organization, half of California counties already don't have an abortion provider. What is being done, if anything, to improve access within the state?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We have seen some really great forward steps from the governor and from the Legislature. I think they've got a total of $125 million that they put into the budget to put the money where their mouths are in terms of making California a sanctuary state for abortion. And so that means that there's funds, there's money going towards paying for abortions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There's also commitment to funding community-based organizations and reproductive justice organizations for incentivizing people who are medical students of some kind to go into abortion, reproductive health, medicine, so that we have more providers. It's 40% of counties in California that don't have an abortion provider currently.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So we know that there is a shortage of providers. And if we have a larger influx of folks coming into the state, it's going to make that situation even more dire. 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And so that means that there's funds, there's money going towards paying for abortions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There's also commitment to funding community-based organizations and reproductive justice organizations for incentivizing people who are medical students of some kind to go into abortion, reproductive health, medicine, so that we have more providers. It's 40% of counties in California that don't have an abortion provider currently.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So we know that there is a shortage of providers. And if we have a larger influx of folks coming into the state, it's going to make that situation even more dire. 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And several years ago, some legislation was passed to make sure that advanced practitioners, certified midwives and also physician assistants and nurse practitioners all can practice to the full scope of their license so that they could all provide first-trimester abortions, which was not something that was being practiced or always being allowed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That was so people could see the practitioners they're used to seeing at home to get the abortion care that they need. There's about 15 bills going through the Legislature addressing this issue right now. And so there's a couple of them that I believe are really focusing on trying to make sure that there are more folks in the pipeline learning about abortion and how to provide it. So hopefully as they're trained, they can then be deployed out to some of the areas of the state that have the most need.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What policies should California be focusing on to increase access in the state? \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I think right now what is really important is that there is the constitutional amendment working its way through the Legislature so that it can get on the ballot. And I think that's a really important protection for California. We've been watching the Supreme Court, not just this session, but over the many years that they've been trying to chip away at Roe v. Wade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's important for us to really shore up the legislation that we have here in California to make sure that there aren't any loopholes. I think I just saw [that] some 19th-century law from Wisconsin is now going into effect because of the Supreme Court ruling. So focusing on that right now is really important for those of us that are advocates and also for everybody who is out there listening — it's really important to pay attention to what's happening because I think many folks don't really think about this until they or somebody that they love needs these services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And then when they see how challenging it can be, even in a state like California, to access an abortion, then it hits home. We need to be really focused on understanding that sometimes, there is access where we live. But we also have the crisis pregnancy centers that operate in ways that don't always give people the full information that they need when they're pregnant and trying to make a decision, or are trying to actively dissuade them from getting abortions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And we know that there are many more of these crisis pregnancy centers than there are abortion clinics, even in California. 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Most lawmakers are even willing to foot the multimillion-dollar bill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation=\"Jessica Pinckney, executive director, ACCESS Reproductive Justice\"]‘Every journalist and every legislator I’ve talked to in the past six months wants to know how many people are coming to California.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But amid all the politicking, one crucial question remains unanswered: How does California plan for a significant increase when it doesn’t know how many abortions are currently performed in the state?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although almost every other state tracks abortion information — including how many people arrive from out of state — California is one of three that does not. The California Department of Public Health has not kept track of any abortion data since 1997. 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It estimates roughly 154,000 abortions were performed in California in 2020, a 16% increase from 2017.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.guttmacher.org/fact-sheet/state-facts-about-abortion-california\">Some of those abortions likely were for nonresidents\u003c/a>, but the number isn’t specified.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which conducts an annual abortion survey, does ask which state patients reside in as well as where the procedure was performed. But California does not participate in the CDC survey.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The best guess on abortion numbers comes from another Guttmacher data point. Its projections indicate \u003ca href=\"https://states.guttmacher.org/#california\">the number of women of reproductive age whose nearest abortion clinic would be in California would increase 30-fold\u003c/a> as other states ban abortions, which they are expected to do now that federal protections are gone.[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation=\"Fabiola Carrión, director of reproductive and sexual health, National Health Law Program\"]‘We want to know these numbers because we want policy to reflect what people need.’[/pullquote]That means 1.3 million more women, primarily from Arizona, would find themselves closest to a California clinic. Arizona, along with two dozen other states, has a “trigger ban” on abortions, making the procedure illegal the moment Roe was overturned, according to the Guttmacher Institute.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Using women of reproductive age as a proxy for abortion need, however, is an imprecise metric, especially considering how abortion rates have declined nationally over the past three decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those estimates are also based on driving distance and don’t take into account the fact that California’s major transportation hubs make flying a convenient option, Planned Parenthood’s Matsubara said. Evidence from ACCESS already shows that women from states farther away than Arizona are seeking abortions in California, with 18 states represented among its clients.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But without detailed yearly state data, crafting precise policy is difficult.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We want to know these numbers because we want policy to reflect what people need,” Carrión said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://flo.uri.sh/visualisation/9333881/embed\" title=\"Interactive or visual content\" class=\"flourish-embed-iframe\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" style=\"width:100%;height:600px;\" sandbox=\"allow-same-origin allow-forms allow-scripts allow-downloads allow-popups allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox allow-top-navigation-by-user-activation\" width=\"100%\" height=\"500\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some questions are fairly basic: How many abortions are performed each year in California? How many people seek out medication abortions versus procedural ones?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other questions are important for assessing the impact of current health policy: Are there ethnic or age groups that are disproportionately affected? Is telehealth a help or a hindrance for people seeking abortions?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still other questions seek to identify how accessible abortion care is, and what the unmet needs are: How many people come from out of state for abortions? How far do people in the state have to travel to reach a clinic? In which trimester do most abortions occur and how many Californians have to leave the state to seek third-trimester options?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The CDC’s survey includes \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/ss/ss7009a1.htm\">answers to many of these questions\u003c/a>, but California was no longer included when it stopped reporting data in 1997.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There is no policy preventing the department from collecting abortion data, according to an emailed statement from Matt Conens, a spokesperson for the California Department of Public Health. When asked specifically why the health department doesn’t track abortions, Conens said it is not required.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a separate email sent without attribution, a statement reads “the California Department of Public Health does not have information about the history of abortion-data reporting in California.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That means the information on statewide trends is piecemeal at best.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://flo.uri.sh/visualisation/9333881/embed\" title=\"Interactive or visual content\" class=\"flourish-embed-iframe\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" style=\"width:100%;height:600px;\" sandbox=\"allow-same-origin allow-forms allow-scripts allow-downloads allow-popups allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox allow-top-navigation-by-user-activation\" width=\"100%\" height=\"500\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The only window into abortions here is through Medi-Cal, the state’s health insurance program for lower-income people, which covers roughly a third of all Californians. Medi-Cal data suggests that the abortion rate has been dropping among enrollees since 2014. There are no numbers on procedures among those with private insurance, those who may have paid out of pocket or those from out of state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hospitals, surgery centers and insurers may collect the information voluntarily but aren’t required to report it. Abortion clinics also are not required to report any of their data.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Likewise, there is no way to track the number of medication abortions in the state, although \u003ca href=\"https://www.guttmacher.org/article/2022/02/medication-abortion-now-accounts-more-half-all-us-abortions\">nationwide trends suggest they may comprise up to half of all abortions\u003c/a>. Medication abortions use prescription drugs — the “abortion pill” — to terminate a pregnancy within the first 10 weeks, a physical experience similar to an early miscarriage.[aside postID=\"arts_13912860,news_11917111,news_11917541\" label=\"Related Stories\"]The California Department of Health Care Access and Information collects annual data from hospitals and surgery centers, capturing surgical abortions regardless of insurance status, but the department does not receive any data from abortion clinics, spokesperson Andrew DiLuccia said in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pinckney said some of the proposals put forth in the bill package, like creating a statewide website where providers can contribute information on services and funding, would be helpful. It would also make it easier for providers to refer patients to one another if they can’t accommodate them. The key is making sure the data is secure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That takes additional resources but it’s absolutely necessary to protect the privacy of patients and providers because people have politicized abortion so seriously,” Pinckney said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The budget passed by the Legislature in June includes $20 million to improve physical and digital security at reproductive health facilities. It also includes $1 million for the state health department to research unmet abortion needs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UCSF abortion researcher Upadhyay said while $1 million isn’t a lot compared to how much research typically costs, it is an important signal of California’s commitment to abortion rights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Traditionally the National Institutes of Health and CDC do not fund research on abortion, and that’s why this funding is so critical,” Upadhyay said. Lack of federal support tends to create a “chilling effect” when it comes to investing in abortion research, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Are we spending wisely?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Based on the work of the abortion council — which released \u003ca href=\"https://www.cafabcouncil.org/_files/ugd/ddc900_0beac0c75cb54445a230168863566b55.pdf\">a report in 2021 outlining 45 policy recommendations\u003c/a> — the Newsom administration is confident proposed spending on reproductive health is adequate, said Richard Figueroa, deputy cabinet secretary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A bulk of the spending focuses on offsetting the cost of abortions provided for free or at reduced rates, helping abortion clinics improve security and encouraging more providers to offer abortions with loan repayment. There also is funding for improving sexual and reproductive health education that meets the social, cultural and linguistic needs of communities throughout the state.[aside postID=\"news_11917975,news_11896908,news_11916950\" label=”Related Stories”]“These are unmet needs that we know already exist. These are not ephemeral things,” Figueroa said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Recommendations made by the abortion council and incorporated in the 15-bill package are based on members’ experience. The 40-member group forecasted future costs based on how much money they’ve collectively spent on improving access.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Matsubara said Planned Parenthood Affiliates of California provided close to $20 million for abortion care last year that was not reimbursed by insurance. ACCESS Reproductive Justice spent around $63,000 to help people pay for procedures or medication and $28,000 in travel grants or other practical support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it’s hard to say what the outstanding needs are. Between January and April of this year, ACCESS fielded twice as many calls from people seeking assistance compared to the same period last year. Around 30% of the calls were from out of state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve been really clear that there are a lot of unknowns and we may have to come back to the state Legislature at some point and request additional funds just depending on how it pans out,” ACCESS Executive Director Pinckney said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The money earmarked for abortion research in the budget can be used to answer some of these questions and assess the effectiveness of the bill package once implemented, Deputy Cabinet Secretary Figueroa said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You need good data to help you make good decisions,” Figueroa said. “It was very clear to us that there were still some things that we needed to learn about the provision of abortion care in California.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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