The California Legislature has approved a bill authored by state Sen. Nancy Skinner, D-Berkeley, that is designed to end what she says is the dangerous practice of county jails releasing people in the middle of the night.
Skinner said SB 42, called the Getting Home Safe Act, was inspired by the case of Jessica St. Louis, a 26-year-old Berkeley woman who died of an opioid overdose on July 28, 2018, about four hours after she was released from Santa Rita Jail at 1:30 a.m. that day.
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