Press Release: EBCLC and its Partners Win Key Legislative Victory for California Worker Cooperatives
Governor Brown signs AB 816, an EBCLC sponsored bill that would facilitate the creation of worker-owned businesses in California.
Policy Work
Save families teetering on cliff of debt
The Great Recession devastated the financial health of families across California, especially the working poor families of Fresno and the surrounding San Joaquin Valley. Millions of Californians are still struggling with unemployment or underemployment, living paycheck to paycheck, barely able to make ends meet.
Clinic Report Spurs New Legislation to Increase Fairness in Traffic Court
EBCLC’s Director of Programs, Elisa Della-Piana, is featured in Berkeley Law’s story covering the report “Not Just a Ferguson Problem – How Traffic Courts Drive Inequality in California” on the need for traffic court reform.
Alameda County Races the Clock to Help Ex-Cons Benefit From Prop. 47
East Bay Community Law Center Executive Director Tirien Steinbach says the new law, which passed in November, helps bridge a disconnect between old values and modern technology.
Not Just a Ferguson Problem: How Traffic Courts Drive Inequality in California
EBCLC co-authors report: Not Just a Ferguson Problem – How Traffic Courts Drive Inequality in California
No More Steamrolling Consumers: the East Bay Community Law Center’s Fair Debt Bill Is Now State Law
Unscrupulous debt collection agencies have misused the courts to steamroll low-income consumers in recent years, but the State of California took a major step towards ending these unfair practices when Governor Jerry Brown signed into law the Fair Debt-Buying Practices Act (SB 233).
