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02.04.21 ‘EDD has been failing California’: State lawmakers roll out proposals to speed up EDD claims, stop fraud

Excerpted from KGET (NBC) 

By Ashley Zavala 

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (KGET) — State lawmakers are trying to bring big changes to California’s Employment Development Department with some proposals they rolled out Thursday.

The proposals come as the agency has been slow to pay out unemployment benefits while struggling as a target for fraud.

“EDD has been failing California; the truth is the department has been failing for years,” said Assemblywoman Cottie Petrie-Norris, D-Laguna Beach.  

02.04.21 Significant EDD reforms headed to California legislature

Excerpted from KTVU (Fox)

By Tom Vacar 

SACRAMENTO, Calif. - A flurry of EDD reform bills have been submitted to the California legislature to fix, once and for all, EDD's inability to get out of the morass of delays and denials facing millions of unemployed Californians.

After a year of relentless EDD complaints to legislators offices, many are acting in unison. "Every day my colleagues and I hear from thousands of desperate Californians who are in dire straits," said Assemblyperson Cottie Petrie-Norris, (D) Laguna Beach. 

1.26.2021 Commentary from Assemblywoman Cottie Petrie-Norris: With court appointments and GOP legislatures, Roe vs. Wade is under attack

Published in The Daily Pilot, January 26th, 2021

When I was born in 1975, Roe vs. Wade was already two years old. The “right to choose” to get an abortion is something I have known my entire life. To some extent, I — like many women of my generation — took this right for granted. It felt like part of the fabric of our lives. It felt like a fight that we had already won. It felt like we could move on to the next hill.

How wrong we were.

1.25.21 California Unemployment Scam Charges Revealed, Hearings Continue

Excerpted from Patch. 

By Ashley Ludwig

LAGUNA BEACH, CA— Assemblywoman Cottie Petrie-Norris of Laguna Beach joins with Orange County prosecutors this week to detail multiple charges against defendants accused of ripping off the state's unemployment program during the COVID-19 pandemic.

District Attorney Todd Spitzer joins Norris, who will be leading hearings on the issue this week.

Three felons, including a convicted murderer, were charged one week ago in the scheme to obtain unemployment benefits during the pandemic illegally.