California’s Democrat Governor Gavin Newsom has signed into law a bill decriminalizing jaywalking, in most cases.
Newsom signed Assembly Bill 2147 on Friday. Authored by Assemblymember Phil Ting (D-Calif.), the bill is also called “The Freedom to Walk Act” and legalizes safe street crossings. “This bill would prohibit a peace officer, as defined, from stopping a pedestrian for specified traffic infractions unless a reasonably careful person would realize there is an immediate danger of collision with a moving vehicle or other device moving exclusively by human power,” the bill states.
In a press release on Sept. 30, Ting blamed jaywalking laws on the 1930s’ auto industry. During that time, there was a spike in deadly car accidents, and the auto industry was looking to “shift the blame from drivers to pedestrians.”…
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