Senate District 28 Featured Candidates
Culver City & Ladera Heights
ACLU California Action asked California State Senate 28 candidates where they stand on the most vital civil rights and civil liberties issues facing Californians today. Here's how they responded:
Lola Smallwood-Cuevas
Democrat
Cheryl Turner
Democrat
Senate District 28
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Criminal Justice
Will you publicly advocate for greater investment in community-based programs and services and reject legislation that lengthens sentences and increases penalties for nonviolent offenses?
Yes
Lola Smallwood-Cuevas (d)
No Reply
Cheryl Turner (d)
Criminal Justice
Do you agree that mental health diversion, drug treatment, and reentry programs that rehabilitate, employ, and house people convicted of a crime are more effective crime prevention solutions than increasing sentences and classifying more low-level crimes as felonies?
Yes
Lola Smallwood-Cuevas (d)
No Reply
Cheryl Turner (d)
Criminal Justice
Will you publicly oppose efforts to undo or weaken Proposition 47 or Proposition 57, criminal justice reforms overwhelmingly passed by voters to reduce mass incarceration, which has disproportionately impacted Black and brown communities?
Yes
Lola Smallwood-Cuevas (d)
No Reply
Cheryl Turner (d)
Police Practices
Will you publicly support policies that shift the responsibility of public safety responses away from law enforcement and instead to trained social service providers for homelessness and mental health incidences?
Yes
Lola Smallwood-Cuevas (d)
No Reply
Cheryl Turner (d)
Police Practices
Will you publicly support modernizing existing laws to allow for greater public access to police records?
Yes
Lola Smallwood-Cuevas (d)
No Reply
Cheryl Turner (d)
Police Practices
Will you publicly support policies that promote strong civilian and community oversight of police practices that have been found to disproportionately target Black and brown communities?
Yes
Lola Smallwood-Cuevas (d)
No Reply
Cheryl Turner (d)
Police Practices
Will you publicly support making permanent a ban on the use of facial recognition technology in police-worn body cameras, which are known to result in the misidentification of Black and brown individuals?
Yes
Lola Smallwood-Cuevas (d)
No Reply
Cheryl Turner (d)
Immigrant Rights
Given the challenges that currently exist at the federal level for immigrants seeking asylum in the United States, do you publicly support allocating additional state resources to aid asylum-seekers in pursuing their cases in a safe and efficient manner?
Yes
Lola Smallwood-Cuevas (d)
No Reply
Cheryl Turner (d)
Immigrant Rights
Will you publicly support a prohibition on state and local law enforcement from notifying ICE about release dates of individuals in their custody, transferring individuals to ICE once they’ve completed their sentence, and from holding individuals on behalf of ICE?
Yes
Lola Smallwood-Cuevas (d)
No Reply
Cheryl Turner (d)
Voting Rights
Will you publicly support legislation that reduces political influence on local government redistricting by transferring redistricting authority from conflicted local elected officials to non-partisan, local independent citizen commissions?
Yes
Lola Smallwood-Cuevas (d)
No Reply
Cheryl Turner (d)
LGBTQI+ Rights
Will you publicly support eliminating loitering laws that have resulted in the disproportionate policing of transgender women of color?
Yes
Lola Smallwood-Cuevas (d)
No Reply
Cheryl Turner (d)
LGBTQI+ Rights
Will you publicly support the decriminalization of consensual sex work?
Yes
Lola Smallwood-Cuevas (d)
No Reply
Cheryl Turner (d)
Reproductive Justice
Do you agree that supporting pregnant people and their families by expanding access to health care, housing, and childcare, results in better outcomes for parents and children than overreliance on police and the child welfare system?
Yes
Lola Smallwood-Cuevas (d)
No Reply
Cheryl Turner (d)
Racial and Economic Justice
Will you publicly oppose legislation to force unhoused individuals by court order into mental health treatment without their consent?
Yes
Lola Smallwood-Cuevas (d)
No Reply
Cheryl Turner (d)
Thank Lola Smallwood-Cuevas for stating her positions on the most vital civil rights and civil liberties issues facing Californians today:
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