Sacramento, California - Attorney General Kamala D. Harris today announced her sponsorship of two bills that will help provide enhanced support to law enforcement agencies in their investigations of transnational criminal organizations.

Sacramento, California - State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Torlakson today announced the availability of an online tool to help school employees receive the annual training they need to identify and report suspected cases of child abuse and/or neglect.

Los Angeles, California - The FBI and partners the LAPD and the Culver City Police Department are seeking the public’s assistance in learning the identity of a man suspected in three attempted bank robberies Thursday in Culver City and West Los Angeles. The suspect can be seen in bank surveillance photographs below and is described by witnesses as a black male with dreadlock-style hair and sunglasses wearing a black suit with a striped tie.

San Francisco, California - Benny, a U.S. Customs and Border Protection agriculture canine working at San Francisco International Airport, reached a notable milestone last month when he and his CBP agriculture specialist handler Maria Bertram made their 10,000th seizure of prohibited agriculture products being brought into the United States.

Los Angeles, California - Roshaun Nakia Porter, 39, was sentenced Friday by U.S. District Judge Josephine L. Staton to a sentence of 240 months in prison and 10 years of supervised release for his role in a sex trafficking conspiracy, announced the Civil Rights Division and the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Central District of California. Porter’s co-conspirator, Marquis Monte Horn, 40, was sentenced on Oct. 24, 2014, to serve 78 months in prison and five years of supervised release for his role in the conspiracy. Two other defendants have entered guilty pleas in connection with the case.

Los Angeles, California - Assistant Attorney General for National Security John P. Carlin, U.S Attorney Stephanie Yonekura of the Central District of California and Assistant Director in Charge David Bowdich of the FBI's Los Angeles Field Office announced today that two men with ties to the Inland Empire region of California were each sentenced today to 300 months in federal prison for participating in plots to provide material support to terrorists and to kill American personnel.