Senator Holly J Mitchell

From children's advocate to the "Moral conscience of the Senate" (LA Times, 2016) Senator Holly Mitchell has spent her entire career working to end child poverty and create a CA in which ALL children thrive.
Since her election to the CA Legislature in 2010, she has authored numerous pieces of landmark legislation and state budget actions, including
~ending punitive policies in the CalWORKS program that drove families into deep poverty,
~limiting civil asset forfeiture,
~sentencing parity for rock versus powder cocaine,
~de-criminalizing prostitution for minor victims of sex trafficking,
~stopping the abuse of psychotropic drugs in the foster care system, and ~#EquityandJustice, a 10-bill package that reforms the juvenile justice system.
As chairwoman of the Senate Budget committee, she oversaw the development of the state's $200 billion investment in California's future.
She is a member of the Senate's leadership team and serves the nearly 1 million residents of the 30th Senate district with honor.

Mitchell has been recognized as Legislator of the year and honored for her policy grit and steadfast determination by over 100 organizations from across the state.

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