Today, the New Democrat Coalition announced it was endorsing 15 public safety bills for passage, including legislation written by Coalition Vice Chair Congressman Salud Carbajal (CA-24) to help local police departments mitigate staffing shortages.
The Filling Public Safety Vacancies Act, introduced in May with Rep. Don Bacon (R-NE), provides an emergency boost to the federal grant… Read more »
Today, the House Gun Violence Prevention Task Force announced a new effort to force a vote on legislation led by Congresswoman Lucy McBath (GA-06) and Congressman Salud Carbajal (CA-24) to expand Americans’ access to ‘red flag laws’, which allow the removal of a gun from someone who is deemed by a court to pose a threat to themselves or others.
“Red flag laws should not be controversial.… Read more »
Congressman Salud Carbajal visited the San Luis Obispo County Sheriff’s Office to highlight new funding he secured in this year’s federal budget to support replacing the radio dispatch system used by the Sheriff’s office.
The $2,000,000 in federal funds will help upgrade the hardware and software of the radio dispatch system, which handles the 100,000 annual calls and is the county’s… Read more »
On the tenth anniversary of the mass shooting in Isla Vista, California, Congressman Salud Carbajal (CA-24) today released a video statement remembering the lives lost and recommitting to curbing gun violence in their memory.
The full video statement can be found here.
“I still remember that day. The phone calls I got, the anguish we all felt both for Isla Vista and my alma mater… Read more »
El congresista Salud Carbajal (CA-24) está elogiando al presidente Joe Biden por implementar reglamentaciones este mes exigidas en el paquete federal sobre seguridad de armas que el Sr. Carbajal ayudó a crear. Las nuevas reglas incluyen verificaciones de antecedentes más exhaustivos y normas más estrictas para la compra de armas de fuego.
“Esta es una pequeña, pero importante… Read more »
Congressman Salud Carbajal (CA-24) commended President Joe Biden and his administration for implementing improved background checks and tighter rules on the purchase of firearms, regulations required by the federal gun safety package Rep. Carbajal helped get signed into law in his previous term.
“This is a small but important fix to our nation’s background check system for deadly… Read more »
Representative Carbajal voted today to finalize $13,446,901 in funding he secured for Central Coast community projects in the 2024 government spending deal advanced by the U.S. House of Representatives.
The funding, which Rep. Carbajal championed over the course of the past year’s federal budget negotiations, will go towards 14 projects ranging from affordable housing construction and… Read more »
After pushing to secure its creation in the bipartisan gun safety package passed last summer, Congressman Salud Carbajal (CA-24) today lauded the first awards by the new federal fund aimed at supporting implementation of red-flag laws and other gun violence reductions programs.
The $750 million fund created by the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act, the gun safety package passed by… Read more »
Congressman Salud Carbajal and Senator Dianne Feinstein (both D-Calif.) today introduced the Extreme Risk Protection Order Expansion Act, a bill to help states enact laws that allow family members and law enforcement to acquire temporary court orders to have guns removed from dangerous individuals.
The bill would create a new federal grant program to help enact extreme risk protection… Read more »
Today, Congressman Salud Carbajal announced a new $159,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Justice for the Guadalupe Union School District to improve school safety and protect Central Coast students.
The federal funding allocated from the Justice Department’s School Violence Prevention Program will support construction of a new entryway at Kermit McKenzie Intermediate School, the… Read more »
