What happened?

So I'm going to take you back a little bit to 2021, 2022, my first year in the state assembly.

And one of the most soul crushing days of my life was when SB 357 was passed.

And I had been talking to law enforcement from my district, people that were on the front lines of human trafficking task force locally, to Zoe International, which intervenes and provides placement for people they've pulled out of trafficking.

And 357 essentially legalized prostitution or rather took a tool away from law enforcement by the, in California, loitering with the intent to commit prostitution was previously a crime.

And 357 took that away.

Well, that tool was what law enforcement uses to intervene in the cycle of abuse that is human trafficking.

I guess the first question is, what's it like behind the scenes working with colleagues on the other side of the aisle trying to get stuff done?