Revenge porn victims can get offensive material taken off the Internet using a pseudonym. Child care centers can consider job applicants' arrest warrants in hiring decisions. Prisoners can seek a new trial if the scientific evidence that convicted them is later discredited. And police will get training to recognize signs of elder abuse.

Californians won these new rights and protections thanks to four bills developed by students at Pacific McGeorge School of Law and signed into law by Gov. Brown.  

"It is rewarding to have our students not only studying the law on the books in the nation's most important state capital, but also helping to put those laws on the books," said Francis J. Mootz III, dean and professor of law at McGeorge.  

MODESTO - Investigators are asking for help from the public for information regarding a woman's body found outside a Modesto home on Sunday morning.

Stanislaus County Sheriff's Department detectives were called to a home in the 500 block of Briggs Ave. at approximately 6:30 after a passerby spotted the victim under a car port. The witness immediately notified the police department.

Modesto police officers arrived on scene, securing the area, then handed the investigation over to the Sheriff's Department.

The residents at the home where the victim was located were not aware that a crime had occurred and are cooperating with detectives.

The Sheriff's Department says the victim appears to be a transient female, but they have not yet identified her. The cause of death is being withheld due to this being an active investigation but will say that it is being ruled a homicide.

MODESTO, CA - The woman at the center of an alleged sex assault by a former Modesto police officer worries the charges he faces will be reduced to misdemeanor counts.

The ex-officer, Lee Freddie Gaines, faces charges of oral copulation by force, being armed with a firearm while committing a sexual offense, sexual battery and assault under color of authority.

The alleged victim, 37-year old Sherry Newton, who acknowledges she was working as a prostitute, said Gaines came to a motel for her services, then handcuffed her and sexually assaulted her.

She said she received a call from the Stanislaus District Attorney's Office on Wednesday informing her the charges were going to be reduced to misdemeanor counts, including one for soliciting sex.

Newton said Gaines never bothered to ask her for sex when he put the handcuffs on her and assaulted her.