Press Releases
Governor Brown to Participate in United Nations, Climate Week NYC and Yale Climate Conference Events, Meet with Premiers of Quebec and Ontario in Canada Next Week
SACRAMENTO - Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced he will participate next week in events connected to Climate Week NYC 2017, the 72nd Regular Session of the United Nations General Assembly in New York City, and the Yale Climate Conference in New Haven,...
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Governor Brown Announces Appointments
SACRAMENTO - Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the following appointments: Charles Callahan, 56, of Blythe, has been appointed warden at Chuckawalla Valley State Prison, where he has been acting warden since 2017 and served as chief deputy warden from 2013...
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Governor Brown Issues Legislative Update
SACRAMENTO – Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced that he has signed the following bills: • AB 242 by Assemblymember Joaquin Arambula (D-Fresno) – Certificates of death: veterans. • AB 395 by Assemblymember Raul Bocanegra (D-Pacoima) – Substance use treatment...
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Governor Brown Announces Appointments
SACRAMENTO – Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the following appointments: Suanne Buggy, 45, of Sacramento, has been appointed deputy director at the California Department of Public Health, Office of Public Affairs. Buggy has been senior vice president at...
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Governor and First Lady Honor Army Cpl. Clarence R. Skates
SACRAMENTO – On behalf of all Californians, Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. and First Lady Anne Gust Brown honor Army Cpl. Clarence R. Skates, a U.S. serviceman missing from the Korean War. The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) has announced that Cpl. Skates'...
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Governor and First Lady Honor Marine Reserve Pvt. Donald S. Spayd
SACRAMENTO – On behalf of all Californians, Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. and First Lady Anne Gust Brown honor Marine Reserve Pvt. Donald S. Spayd, a U.S. serviceman missing from World War II. The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) has announced that Pvt. Spayd’s...
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Governor Brown Signs Compact with Morongo Band of Mission Indians
SACRAMENTO - Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced that he has signed a tribal-state gaming compact between the State of California and the Morongo Band of Mission Indians. As with all recent compacts, the new compact contains provisions regarding licensing,...
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Governor Brown Calls for Deeper Trans-Pacific Collaboration on Climate Change at Eastern Economic Forum in Vladivostok
VLADIVOSTOK, Russia - Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today joined leaders from Japan, South Korea, Russia, China and more than a dozen other countries at the Eastern Economic Forum in Vladivostok, Russia where he pushed businesses and governments to join forces not just...
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Office of the Governor Issues Statement on DACA Decision
SACRAMENTO – On behalf of Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. and his administration, Executive Secretary Nancy McFadden issued the following statement today regarding the decision to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program: “This six-month so-called...
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Governor Brown Signs Tribal Compacts
SACRAMENTO – Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced that he has signed tribal-state gaming compacts between the State of California and the Elk Valley Rancheria, the Quechan Tribe of the Fort Yuma Indian Reservation and Tule River Indian Tribe of the Tule River...
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