SACRAMENTO, California (Press Release) – State Senator Mark Leno (D-San Francisco) issued the following statement on Monday, June 23, regarding Senate Bill 962, which requires all smartphones sold in California to come pre-equipped with theft-deterring technological solutions to render the device useless if stolen. The bill, authored by Sen. Leno and sponsored by San Francisco District Attorney George Gascón, passed the Assembly Utilities and Commerce Committee today with a 9-2 vote.
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“With the rates of smartphone theft reaching new heights in many cities across California and the nation, we are faced with the clear choice of making our smartphones less attractive to thieves,” said Senator Leno, D-San Francisco. “The only way to stop the victimization of innocent cell phone customers is to enable theft-deterrent technology on nearly every new smartphone sold in California, which this legislation will do. This proposal has universal support from statewide law enforcement groups and many wireless industry companies have dropped their opposition to the bill, giving further evidence to the need for, and fact of, a solution to this crime of convenience.”
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