California Initiative Would Amend Prop. 47, Strengthen Penalties for Theft and Fentanyl Crimes

Supporters of the initiative said they’re collecting signatures quickly, because Californians are in favor of changing the law.

A series of smash-and-grab robberies left stores with boarded up windows in San Francisco on Nov. 22, 2021. Lear Zhou/The Epoch Times

Ten years after a controversial measure known as Proposition 47 was passed by California voters to change some drug and theft crimes from felonies to misdemeanors in an effort to lower prison populations, support is growing for a proposed ballot initiative to reform the proposition, according to organizers of the new proposal.

The group informed election officials that more than 220,000 signatures—representing nearly half of those needed to qualify for the ballot in November—were collected in the first 30 days of their circulating petitions.