California still considers looting a crime. Newsom debunked the claim on X, and prosecutors have charged multiple people with ...

11 Threads post (direct link, archive link) shows California ... fire, flood, riot, or other natural or manmade disaster shall be guilty of the crime of looting.” It also says petty theft ...

Newsom hasn’t decriminalized looting in California, nor have other Democrats in the state. California law says that anyone who commits burglary or grand theft “during and within an affected county in ...

Looting is illegal in California during a state of emergency or under an evacuation order, according to the state’s penal code. People can be charged with felony looting when they commit burglary or ...

In California, looting is a “rare form of burglary or theft” that “happens specifically during states of emergency,” a San-Diego based law firm explains. As of Monday, Jan. 13, nine people ...