Using AI, grieving moms discover California lawmakers killed popular fentanyl bill by not ​voting 

They killed the bill because money had something to do with it. Follow the money.

Politicians don't care about anything beyond their own wealth and ability to control. Politicians don't consider voters to be human beings.

Watch for legislation to finally put some limits on AI ---- like using it on government.

Every state needs this!

No vote. You should be removed from the office.

Lol, people need to stop calling every computer program AI.

There should be a law that states; if you are a legislator, you are required to record your vote for all to see!! We should sue all lawmakers, for dereliction of duty, who abstain from voting. They were hired to vote on bills.

Those politicians are undoubtably profiting from this tragedy.

Those legislators need to be approached and asked why they didn't vote. If they decline to talk with anyone, vote them out in the next election. That is ridiculous!!

Can we also stop paying them based on their attendance and voting records...

The absolute disdain politicians must have for you to walk out while you're asking them to do something about lethal drugs in the areas they serve. Remember their faces and names.

Those lawmakers, will simply try and pass a bill, prohibiting the dissemination of this information…they will find some loophole, like privacy rights, first amendment, I don’t know…something…they are really bad people, and they deserve to pay the consequences for their indifference. We need to really be working on limiting the benefits they receive after leaving office!!!

ALL politicians should be restricted to 2 terms of ANY office (PERIOD)

If we didn't show up for work we'd get fired - where are the term limit changes?

Vote all these politicians out

Every state needs this tool and it also needs to be available at a federal level. In addition more states need to make the same stance that I believe Oregon did which was to put a law on the books which punishes legislators who fail to show up for a vote x number of times by blocking them from reelection if they exceed that number.

We need Digital Democracy in Texas. We need it DESPERATELY.

I'm thinking this is typical. Years ago whrn my children were young, I chaperoned a school field trip to the state capitol. Part of that trip was to watch our government in action. NONE of our politicians showed up to the scheduled session. The kids sat there looking confused, wondering why our "leaders" weren't showing up to work.

What a great tool from Calmatters and Cal Poly! It's about time we little people can see what is going on in Sacto.

Thats not AI it's just a good database

They should only get paid if they vote, if they don’t, a percentage of their checks should be forfeited. It’s the equivalent of ditching work.

Outlaw lobbyists

not AI, not prescription pills

I wonder if This Digital Democracy app will roll out to other states

Excellent journalism. Thank you.

There should be a law that you are REQUIRED to vote on everything. Every single thing. No exceptions unless you are hospitalized with PROOF.

The audacity of these law makers! That woman Aisha Wahib's behavior in the video made me see red, what a disgusting and reprehensible person! The people of her district have an obligation to kick her out of her job if she's so against doing it! I noticed all of the reps who didn't vote were Dems, how disappointing but unsurprising. We have to watch ALL of our reps every moves to keep them from ripping us off! 😡 Every state needs Digital Democracy!

Politicians need to be forced to take a side, not not vote and not decide. You need to choose one or the other. This way we can vote you out if you aren't in tune with the majority of the people. Not voting either way is cowardly and those people should be ousted form being one of our politicians. You are either for or against something, there is no middle ground. OR we simply change it to say if you do not vote either way, it goes to the people automatically.

But nobody in government seems to know the meaning of honesty, let alone going a step further to accountability!

Every U.S. citizen, every person around the world should have this information about their leaders!

We need an initiative that would disregard abstentions and absences in all legislative votes. And automatically pass any bill from committee if it receives zero votes for or against.

I worked at the state capital on legislative issues (not CA) and what is described here is called the 'desk veto' - meaning the bill goes to some commitee where it is slated to die from inaction. The the overall leader wants something to pass or fail, they will shuffle it to the committee that will do that for them. Leaders chose the committee leads, so they are absolutely beholden to them. Everyone thinks the governor or president is the most influential members of a given government. The real power is in the Senate and House chambers where a single person in each controls everything that happens in the state or nation - often for decades. Fix it by putting term limits on leadership roles, terms limits on lawmakers, and laws that require single-issue legislation that automatically gets a full floor vote if it "dies in committee". That last one would prevent these bills from being ignored, because if the committee does not advance it then the entire chamber will have to do something about it (ignore is an option).

They need this for the US congress.

Great report! Thank you!

0:58 “fentanyl laced prescription pill”. Do they mean from the pharmacy? That would be a quality control lawsuit. Otherwise it wasn’t a “prescription”, it would be black market.

Great informative, meaningful, useful reporting. THANK YOU!!!

Money, it's all about kickbacks.

Our politicians are the worst

Thank you ladies and CBS News Sacramento for getting this information out! Our legislators and politicians need to start doing their jobs and protect us which is what government's primary responsibility is.

Definitely needed - when politicians aren’t held accountable, you get the train wreck that is California.

Good news report

If bills are getting hung up in committees, when the legislative body as a whole would pass the bills, then an option would be to add to the rules a discharge petition process, like what the US House has. This allows the body as a whole to vote to "discharge" the bill from committee. I expect that some state legislatures already have this, but don't know if California does.

all states federal and local bring this system

Vote them out

Hold them accountable!

We need this program in Washington.

They messed with the wrong people ! 💔

Ok THIS is the type of AI I'm trying to get on board with. :D Now they have to be consistent. // "I hope they start showing up to do their jobs" yeah I'm also... on board with this...

Where's the AI? Looks like a complicated computer program and database. Big whoop. Should be standard everywhere. (Btw I'm appalled at the blatant callousness of the senators who couldn't be bothered to actually do their jobs and vote. Despicable.)

How did the person get a fentanyl laced pill? Did the pharmacy do that?

maybe hold these parents accountable on why they didn't help their own kids.. way to pass off the responsibility.

Yes, get that tool out to the general public. Too long have politicians been able to deny accountability.

Good report

Weiner should be ashamed of himself given how many people died by fentanyl in his district.

We need this app everywhere

Please expand this system to all other states, if not just FL!!!

For completeness, they really should have described the arguments made against this bill. Laws don’t always accomplish what you intend, and I’m wondering if these politicians had reason to worry about unintended consequences of the law even if they agreed with the reasons for wanting it.

Good a Government by the people for the people must be transparent🌟

Destruction by design. I really wish people would wake up to that truth.

How can the people of a state hold their leaders accountable if the peope dont understand the system of government, economics, logic, or history?

Wait that's not ai though. It's just a database. Nothing to do with ai at all. Are they just saying ai to get more funding?

It is time for direct democracy.

Let put that in the capital congress

"Fentanyl-laced prescription pill" makes it sound like the the pills you get from Walgreens or CVS for your average cough. But that's not actually what happened here, right?

Exactly what you can expect in a Democrat supermajority. Hopefully the government vote tracking catches on, a site that users can vote for and against compared to what the politician voted would be useful.

There has to be accountability. Otherwise... What's happening now.

Money for them > your childs life, in the beginning stages or walking on two leggs.

Shout out to CalMatters! Please support them, they’re really struggling rn.

Yet here in Wisconsin, 2/3 of our legislature can just not show up for weeks on end and somehow we're okay with that...

Because these politicians believe these victims aren’t victims at all.

Fentanyl lased prescription pill? Sounds like a lawsuit to me.

Its like we don't need anything officials. We need representatives.

Why would you not vote on this bill? Why would you not want to pass this bill? This is disgusting.

should be nationwide as well

With everyone having a smart phone we dont need these elected officials anymore. Use your social security number , address and a pin number and vote on legislation .

They are your betters,they tell you what to do... This is what they are saying to you ....

Vote them out!

Does it track contributions? Investments? Familial income? This could be a game changer.

Seriously I gotta say if I ever found the government had a hand in something terrible like this with my kids well can’t say but it wouldn’t be a legal action

Question: could politicians be in bed with the cartel?

No Democrat-controlled body is going to do anything to actually help regular people.

November is coming if you really want change.

We definitely won't get this tool in FL unfortunately.

What is the name of the tool?

How about make drugs illegal so people don’t do them anymore.

Cartel Payoffs.

Can someone define a 'fentanyl laced prescription pill'? What does that mean? A prescription pill is something you get from a doctor. Where does the fentanyl come into play? Is the fentanyl added afterwards or is it contained within the pill at manufacture? If it's spiked afterwards, why are your kids taking drugs to begin with? Is this done to intentionally get high?

wow....

Looking back at my own high school experience, thankfully my parents forced me to work, I had a full time job in high school, I didn’t have time to fool around with classmates to get into much trouble. But I smoked cigs, and drank beer none the less, Today with the internet and kids always have too much access to everything now I can see why kids die today.

Manufacturing consent, like opioid 's its our medical industry, our for profit Healthcare industry created this problem

To these grieving moms: even president bush continues to sit with kindergartners when he heard about 9/11. I’m so sorry for your loss. Keep fighting these leaches.

Reginald Jones-Sawyer a black lawmaker was formerly the Chairman of the Public Safety Committee. Every single bill that was presented he would argue its impact on black and brown people. Everything impacts them MORE. Even a bill on child sex trafficking he argued it impacted black and brown people more. One could say black and brown victims were dismissed in favor of the black and brown criminal. Finally he was replaced in the Public Safety Committee. When showing names of law makers who did not vote his name was on the list in the segment. Now for the moms, are they tough on other crime or just the crimes that took their child? Few care until it impacts them directly. How do they vote? This is justice reform, not holding people accountable. Finally Governor Newsom has been closing prison and Los Angeles wants to close to men’s jail. There will be NO PLACE to incarcerate criminals.

Good idea

I'm a little confused. The moms said their children died of prescription pills laced with fentanyl? How are they lacing already formed legal medications or are kids buying like Vicodin not knowing it's got fentanyl added? It doesn't make sense to me cause if dealers are adding something to make a pill stronger, I'd think they'd tell buyers so they could charge more for the pills, right? So do the kids know what they are taking just not exactly how strong it is cause the fentanyl is illegal?

Who appointed Aisha Wahaub to such a powerful position? She obviously has no sympathy for the people of California. Who does she really serve?

This is why I think law maker are in in on the take

When you say "fentanyl laced prescription drug" I get confused. Did the pharmacist put fentanyl in the pill ? How did a script get compromised ???

No one’s gonna talk about that ticker at 0:19?

alcohol takes away 3 times as many lifes. decriminalize drugs and there would be fewer overdoses. tough love didnt work then and wont work as policy.

Someone somewhere in politics will change the way we as the public view our governments.