New change coming to retail theft legislation could splinter support for tough-on-crime initiative

In a closed-door discussion this week, representatives for Assembly Speaker Robert Rivas met with the leaders behind the Californians for Safer Communities Coalition, the group led by local district attorneys that has spent the last six months campaigning for voter support to reform Proposition 47, which voters passed in 2014.

“The Speaker has done more in eight months than anyone has done in eight years to push the conversation forward and I think everyone in the room acknowledges that,' said Daniel Conway, vice president of government relations for the California Grocers Assn. who was present during the discussions this week. 'And that is why there is a bonafide effort to see what can be done.' Both the proposed legislation and ballot measure focus on the need to address retail theft.

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