Public Safety
California signs Braun’s Law after Manhattan Beach DUI death
The new law requires a formal warning when DUI charges are reduced, preserving notice that a future impaired-driving death could lead to a murder charge.
Gov. Gavin Newsom signed Senate Bill 907, known as Braun’s Law, on September 25 as part of a package targeting repeat impaired-driving offenses. The measure is named for Braun Levi, an 18-year-old Loyola High School student and nationally ranked tennis player who was struck and killed by a suspected repeat drunk driver while walking in Manhattan Beach in May 2025.
What it means locally
Braun’s Law is intended to ensure that drivers whose DUI charges are reduced to a lesser offense still receive a formal warning that impaired driving endangers human life and that a future fatal offense could support a murder charge. The broader bill package also strengthens penalties for repeat DUI offenders, lengthens some license revocations and ignition-interlock requirements, and raises DMV points for certain intoxicated vehicular-manslaughter convictions. The governor’s office said the changes are aimed at deterring repeat offenses and improving accountability statewide.
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