In just the first decade after passage of the Voting Rights Act, the disparity in voter registration rates between white and minority communities dropped from 30 percent to 8 percent. Huge progress.
Opinion By
Santa Barbara County District Attorney John Savrnoch
A visiting judge’s decision to impose a sentence of probation instead of prison left Carly Howard’s family deeply disappointed and struggling with the feeling that the impact on the victim and her loved ones was overshadowed by the focus on the defendant.