California has maintained its position in the headlines of national news for quite some time now due to several issues including the COVID-19 pa However, this is not the limit to which California is gaining national attention. Governor Gavin Newsom recently approved the controversial legislation known as SB-145 to amend the state’s existing sex offender law. This bill is taking heat due to the leniency it grants to adults who are caught engaging in sex acts with minors. The recently signed legislation essentially scraps a previous law that landed adults on the sex offender registry, even if they were less than ten years older than the minor they engaged in sex acts with. Now, SB-145 allows adults who engage in sex acts with minors (who share less than a ten-year age gap) the possibility of convincing a judge that such acts were “consensual.”What to know about California’s approval of SB-145
