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Encinitas Assemblymember Tasha Boerner Horvath’s bill to strengthen a sexual assault victim’s right to privacy on social media was signed into law Tuesday by Gov. Gavin Newsom.

Increasingly in sexual assault cases, social media activity irrelevant to the the case is being admitted into evidence, often with the result of embarrassing, shaming, or humiliating victims to discourage their testimony.

SAN DIEGO  — A bill passed by the Assembly Natural Resources Committee last week would allocate $2.5 million for research that could help create an early warning system for California’s coastal bluff collapses.

AB 66 by Assemblywoman Tasha Boerner Horvath (D-Encinitas) would give Scripps Institution of Oceanography the job of researching when and why bluffs fail, so potentially catastrophic failures of the seaside cliffs can be predicted.