Greg Micek
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This bill could put limits on AI in healthcare (opens the original)
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The bill would require a doctor or nurse to have the final say in a patient's care, even when an AI system helps guide it. It would also bar health providers from using AI to do work the law says must be done by a licensed professional. The bill was sponsored by the California Nurses Association, the same union whose members picketed Kaiser hospitals this week over the use of AI. Hospital groups, health plans, and tech companies opposed the bill. They say its definition of AI is too broad, and c
Report sheds more light on California's deadliest-ever avalanche (opens the original)
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A new report offers the most detailed account yet of the avalanche which killed nine people near Truckee in February. It was the deadliest avalanche in modern California history. The report was commissioned by Blackbird Mountain Guides, the company which led the trip. Three of its guides and six clients died . It found the group was not on a steep slope when the slide hit. They were on flat ground, moving toward a route mapped out to avoid avalanche areas. But a creek which would normally be fro
Think tank asks: what's stopping youth from voting? (opens the original)
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The Public Policy Institute of California hosted a discussion in Sacramento last Thursday about how to get more young Californians engaged in the political process ahead of this November's election. In the last presidential election, about 42% of eligible California voters under 25 cast a ballot. That's much lower than the overall statewide turnout of 62%. Leslie Ortiz just graduated from UCLA, where she helped high schoolers register to vote. She said the low numbers don't mean young people don
Parole board sued over potential early release for prisoners with life sentences (opens the original)
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The Criminal Justice Legal Foundation’s lawsuit challenges new regulations set to take effect October 1st. The regulations create a review process for people who have served at least 25 years in prison, including some serving life without parole. The Board of Parole Hearings does not make final release decisions. It only sends recommendations to the governor or the courts. The board says the process is not a parole hearing, and some inmates are excluded, including those on death row. But critics
California Housing and Homeless Agency established (opens the original)
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The California Housing and Homelessness Agency consolidates five existing departments and offices, including the Department of Housing and Community Development and the state's homelessness council. Secretary Tomiquia Moss says the goal is a one-stop shop that gets housing built faster. "When a person wants to build housing in California, right now," Moss pointed out, "they have to go to several different departments across state government. It takes them years to stack enough financing to be ab
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