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California Highway Patrol/Wikimedia CommonsThe California Highway Patrol plans to equip all its officers with the bodycams by next year. -
wp paarz/Flickr / Creative CommonsA growing number of Bay Area cities and counties have joined a nationwide lawsuit led by San Francisco and Santa Clara County challenging the Trump's administration's targeting of sanctuary jurisdictions.
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