Washington, DC - Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs Richard Stengel will travel to Palo Alto, California, February 22–23, to promote the 2016 Global Entrepreneurship Summit (GES), which will take place from June 23–24 in Silicon Valley.

Sacramento, California - Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today issued a proclamation declaring February 19, 2016, as A Day of Remembrance: Japanese American Evacuation in the State of California.

San Francisco, California - Attorney General Kamala D. Harris today unveiled an online toolkit designed to help local leaders address California’s elementary school truancy crisis. The toolkit, created in collaboration with the Ad Council and with the support of The California Endowment, provides school, community, and government leaders with resources to work with parents on their children’s elementary school absences and the long-term impact that chronic absence and truancy have on academic performance.

Sacramento, California - Late last year the FDA published the final Produce Rule, which is a key component of new federal food safety laws under the Food Safety Modernization Act, or FSMA.

Sacramento, California - Since mid-December, a fatal disease outbreak has killed increased numbers of pine siskins, a small songbird that inhabits California’s forested areas. Scientists from the California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) believe that infected bird feeders and bird baths are partly responsible for the spread.

San Francisco, California - Attorney General Kamala D. Harris addressed the Stanford Cyber Initiative to release a comprehensive report detailing the nature of data breaches reported to her office over the past four years.  The report found that between 2012 and 2015, there were 657 data breaches, which compromised over 49 million records of Californians’ personal information.