We work extensively on both state and national policy, focusing on issues that other groups tend to neglect. Our specialty is in tackling issues that are complex, but don’t necessarily grab major headlines. These are the areas where we think we can have a real impact.
The Issue
Publications
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California Cops Can’t Hide Body Cam Footage of Police Shootings Anymore
Steven Greenhut
The wheels of justice turn slowly, but they turn even more slowly when it comes to achieving substantial legislative reform. With little fanfare and no statement, Gov. Jerry Brown signed…
Prop. 12 is an abuse of California’s ballot box
Steven Greenhut
SACRAMENTO – Critics of California’s voter-initiative process often rail against “ballot-box budgeting,” which refers to the way these measures often impose major budget outlays by democratic…
Is outrageous public pay in California the cause of bad roads?
Media Coverage
From KFI-AM 640:
Steven Greenhut wrote a fantastic piece for The American Spectator about the real reason why California has horrible infrastructure.
He alleges the outsized power of…
They’re Coming After the Prop. 13 ‘Loophole’
Steven Greenhut
The award for the most ridiculous opening paragraph in a news story, this week anyway, goes to CBS Sacramento for its coverage of a 2020 ballot measure that the secretary of state has recently…
Surprise! DMV May Have Registered Non-Citizen Voters
Steven Greenhut
We never could have seen this one coming. News stories in recent weeks show that a new California motor-voter law that requires the Department of Motor Vehicles to automatically register people who…
Outrageous Public Pay Is Cause of Bad Roads
Steven Greenhut
California conservatives thought they were riding the cusp of a populist wave when they qualified Proposition 6 for the November ballot. If passed, that statewide initiative would repeal the…
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Unions Change Their Tune on Janus Supreme Court Ruling
Steven Greenhut
This column was first published by the California Policy Center.
The U.S. Supreme Court is attacking working people by destroying public-sector unions. That’s the gist of the argument…
Who Is Being Cynical Here?
Steven Greenhut
Many Californians have this weird notion that the rest of the country is like some kind of Third World backwater, yet those of us who travel around the country are always struck by the alternate…
September 25, 2018
To Chairman Kesto and the Members of the House Committee on Law and Justice:
My name is Jesse Kelley, and I am the State Affairs Manager for Criminal Justice for the R Street…
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (September 21) – The R Street Institute applauds the California DMV’s decision to hold a public workshop on Friday, October 19 for the development of regulations related to…