California whistle-blower law is revived

By Melody Gutierrez
SACRAMENTO — In each of the past four years, a Senate committee inexplicably killed a bill to provide whistle-blower protections to legislative employees. Now, the revived bill is one of the most popular in the Legislature, with more than half the lawmakers signing on as co-authors as it heads to the full Senate for a critical vote Thursday.
That’s the power of the #MeToo movement, said bill author Assemblywoman Melissa Melendez, a Republican from Lake Elsinore. A