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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The state’s watchdog agency for people with disabilities has found that a for-profit psychiatric hospital in Southern California abused patients for years by excessively and improperly strapping them ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

L.A. resident Joshua Erenmark is autistic and fully relies on Medi-Cal for care. The 28-year-old, who lives in Westchester, has high support needs autism and requires around-the-clock support, ...

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 ...