‘Alexandra’s Law’ Introduced Again to Target Fentanyl Dealers, After Years of Setbacks in State Legislature

“We can’t let this issue go. I can’t face any more parents grieving their lost daughters and sons without doing everything we can,” Sen. Thomas Umberg said.

Los Angeles resident Matt Capelouto and his daughter Alexandra, who died from fentanyl poisoning two days before Christmas in 2019 at the age of 20. Screenshot via YouTube/Matt Capelouto

Democratic state Sen. Thomas J. Umberg has reintroduced a proposal that seeks to admonish fentanyl dealers, after similar legislation that he authored was killed by the California Senate’s Public Safety Committee last year.

“Fentanyl is not going away, and neither am I,” Mr. Umberg said in a Jan. 17 statement to reintroduce the measure. “We can’t let this issue go. I can’t face any more parents grieving their lost daughters and sons without doing everything we can to stop this fentanyl poisoning.”