The most essential role of government is public safety. When state leaders, like Gov. Gavin Newsom, fail to fund what voters ...
Reform-minded San Jose Mayor Matt Mahan has called the level of state funding for Prop. 36 behavioral health services a “joke ...
It’s a Wednesday afternoon in Department 1203 at the Central Courthouse, and the man in the defendant’s chair is anxious. The next morning, he’ll be released from jail and expected to put his name on ...
It’s a Wednesday afternoon in Department 1203 at the Central Courthouse, and the man in the defendant’s chair is anxious. The next morning, he’ll be released from jail and expected to put his name on ...
San Diego County jails have logged more than 3,300 bookings on low-level drug and theft charges since a new state law, Proposition 36, took effect and turned what had been misdemeanor crimes into ...
The treatment expansion voters expected has not materialized. The failure is with Sacramento’s refusal to fund Prop. 36.” ...
More than 13,000 people have been charged in LA, Orange and Riverside counties since the measure’s passage, mostly for repeat ...
Last year, California voters backed Proposition 36 to crack down on repeat drug and theft offenders and try to direct those ...
Last November, California voters approved Proposition 36, a ballot initiative that backers promised would usher in “a new era of mass treatment” for people struggling with addiction by creating a new ...