On April 4, a coalition including the Berkeley-based organization Disability Rights Advocates filed a motion for a preliminary injunction against California’s Vote-by-Mail program. The motion ...

While California is frequently praised as a national leader for increasing voting access, some visually impaired voters and their advocates claim unnecessary barriers remain in place. Lisamaria ...

Experts and disability justice advocates say these changes could help more California families with children who have complex medical needs access the care they‘re entitled to. California has a ...

Disability care workers Ricardo Zegri and Niurka Sureda-Jackson sit outside the California state Capitol on April 10. Zegri says Taco Bell would pay him more than the $19 an hour he makes as a ...

Two decades ago, California set an ambitious employment goal: To reflect the state’s diverse population, one sixth of the government’s workforce would be filled by people with disabilities. For years ...

Service dogs have become a common feature in California's public spaces over the years, but fake service dogs, advocates say, are hurting real service dogs’ credibility and exacerbating the challenges ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. California’s statewide rent control law, the Costa-Hawkins Act, has been contentious ...

California’s newest and largest immigration detention center is dangerous for disabled people and others in its care, according to a report this week from a state disability rights watchdog agency.

Report found abuse, neglect and denial of medical care at California City ICE. Disability group reports staff harassment and solitary confinement after protests. Report urges DHS, ICE and CoreCivic to ...

UCLA junior Vivek Chotai doesn’t plan to pursue his school’s new disability studies major — the first of its kind at any public university in the state — or even take classes in it. Yet for the ...