Maggy KrellIncumbent
Candidate for Assembly District 6
Maggy Krell is a Democrat in the California State Assembly. She holds District 6, in the Sacramento area. She won the seat in November 2024. She earlier was a deputy district attorney. That was in San Joaquin County. She later became a Supervising Deputy Attorney General. That was at the California Department of Justice. There she led the Special Prosecution Unit. She charged the leaders of Backpage.com with sex trafficking. She wrote a book about the case. It is called 'Taking Down Backpage: Fighting the World's Largest Sex Trafficker, A Prosecutor's Story,' from 2022. In 2018 she became Chief Legal Counsel for Planned Parenthood Affiliates of California. There she worked on reproductive-health law. In the 2025-2026 term, she wrote a bill on bail-agent solicitation, AB 1927. She also wrote a bill on child sex abuse material reporting, AB 1946. One more covers abortion pill access, AB 54. Another bill covers trafficking content in health classes, AB 1766. She serves on Assembly Appropriations and Banking and Finance. She also serves on Communications and Conveyance, and on Insurance. She is running for re-election, in the November 3, 2026 election. Home: Sacramento, California, Assembly District 6. Occupation: California State Assemblymember; attorney. Prior office: Incumbent since 2024, first elected November 2024.
On the issues
- Economy & Jobs
Supports policies to help local businesses succeed while ensuring workers are paid living wages.
Source → - Taxes & Cost of Living
Frames affordability primarily in terms of wages and cost of living, without a specific stated position on state tax policy.
Source → - Housing & Homelessness
Supports cross-government coordination to move people off the streets and faster deployment of existing homelessness funding to expand housing.
Source → - Public Safety & Policing
Emphasizes a public-safety approach centered on preventing crime, protecting the public, and supporting crime victims, drawing on her background as a sex-trafficking prosecutor; has drawn broad law-enforcement endorsements.
Source → - Criminal Justice & Courts
As a former prosecutor, has focused legislative and career efforts on combating sex trafficking and reforming bail-industry practices, rather than broader sentencing or decarceration reform; a criminal-justice-reform advocacy group declined to endorse her, citing her strong law-enforcement backing relative to reform priorities.
Source → - Health & Health Care
Supports protecting access to reproductive and family-planning health care, drawing on her prior legal work for Planned Parenthood; has not stated a specific position on Medi-Cal, drug pricing, or mental health/addiction policy.
Source → - Reproductive & Social Issues
Supports protecting and expanding access to abortion, including medication abortion, shielding providers and patients from civil/criminal liability.
Source → - Education & Schools
Supports incorporating human-trafficking and online-safety education into the K-12 health curriculum framework.
Source → - Family & Social Services
Supports expanding programs that prepare young people for job opportunities and provide safe recreational spaces (parks) for children.
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