Nigel Duara
CalMattersNigel Duara is a multi-media journalist for CalMatters, a nonprofit, nonpartisan media venture explaining California policies and politics, and a JPR news partner.. Duara most recently worked as a Los Angeles-based national and climate correspondent at VICE News Tonight on HBO.
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A bill that passed the Assembly would create a 鈥渃ommunity campus鈥� on prison grounds where inmates cook their own food and secure jobs before their release. -
A proposed California law that is part of a larger package of gun control bills would allow the attorney general to sue gun manufacturers over marketing practices. -
A Democratic bill would no longer treat stillbirths as 鈥渦nattended deaths,鈥� investigated by coroners. But anti-abortion activists fear the change would legalize 鈥渋nfanticide鈥� after babies are born. -
The recent shootings that killed six in downtown Sacramento underscore the criminal justice divide in the race for California鈥檚 attorney general. -
Crime statistics are a loaded weapon. They can be aimed in any direction, to mean anything. -
CalMatters conducted a Q&A with housing researcher Carolina Reid, who has been tracking vulnerable renters throughout the pandemic. She says the state could help renters facing eviction 鈥� if enough money gets to them in time. -
Northern California counties have the biggest concentration of the missing checks.
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Gov. Gavin Newsom and legislative leaders need to reach an agreement by Jan. 31 for California renters to avoid the beginning of a statewide eviction tsunami. -
One expert estimates there are approximately 2 million people, including children, at risk of eviction based on the 600,000 California households that fell behind on rent in August. -
Prop. 25 would use algorithms to advise judges on bail decisions. So why are some early boosters having second thoughts? -
The 1,600 evictions are likely a significant undercount of how many renters have been forced to leave their homes since the pandemic struck, as both court-sanctioned and informal evictions often do not show up on the sheriffs鈥� lockout lists obtained by CalMatters.
