Los Angeles cracks down on looters targeting downtown stores during anti-ICE protests as California pivots away from lenient policies following voter approval of Proposition 36.

A group of California lawmakers, joined by top law enforcement officials and county leaders, introduced bipartisan legislation Monday, Feb. 10, that aims to impose tougher penalties on looters and ...

Looting can be charged as a misdemeanor or felony offense, and penalties for it “depend on the underlying crime,” according to California-based Kraut Criminal & DUI Lawyers.

California is one of only eight states with anti-looting laws. Of those, most were adopted amid 1960s race riots, but California adopted its laws after the Loma Prieta earthquake in 1989.

California lawmakers want tougher penalties for looting and first responder shams AB 469 would close loopholes, focus on looting and fake “first responders” in disaster zones ...