The most essential role of government is public safety. When state leaders, like Gov. Gavin Newsom, fail to fund what voters ...

The treatment expansion voters expected has not materialized. The failure is with Sacramento’s refusal to fund Prop. 36.” ...

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 ...

Prosecutors in three Southern California counties have charged more than 13,000 people under Proposition 36, the tougher-on-crime law passed overwhelmingly a year ago this week, according to data ...

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 ...