Assemblymember Gipson and the Select Committee on Ports and Goods Movement, Review Report on Improving CA Ports
2023-2024 State Budget Highlights
$145 Million in Direct Investments for the District & Statewide:
$1,250,000 - for the South Bay Center for Counseling to support the expansion of the Strength Based Community Change’s Thriving Families Well-being Initiative.
$2,500,000 - for Kedren South to fully fund and build the acute psychiatric wing in the new Psychiatric Acute Care Hospital & Children's Village in South Los Angeles (LA).
$1,250,000 - for the Beacon House Association of San Pedro's Bartlett Center. The Bartlett Remodel will update equipment and fixtures and increase storage capacity, allowing BH to increase daily meals served from 940 to 2,100 to residents and unhoused neighbors.
$80,000,000 - for Juvenile Court Schools.
$60,000,000 - to the Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges to expand nursing programs (co-champion).
NO CHARGES Against Lemon or Other Black Journalists: Black CA Legislators Speak Against Climate of Hostility, Issue New Demands
SACRAMENTO, Calif. --- (February 3, 2026) - Assemblymember Mike A. Gipson (D- Carson) led a press conference to demand the dropping of charges against Black American independent journalist Don Lemon, a victim from the national news media being persecuted by President Donald Trump's Administration.
Gipson's Rally Calls Out ICE for Deaths of Good, Porter – While Gunfire Disrupts the Willowbrook Neighborhood During Aggressive Detainment Action by Federal Agents
SACRAMENTO, Calif. --- (January 21, 2026) - Assemblymember Mike A. Gipson (D-Carson) amplified California's defiance against deadly White House policies and the stark human toll they extract, and called Members of the California Legislature and Mayor Kevin McCarty of Sacramento to march from the State Capitol to the John E.