Major interest groups allied with the Democratic Party have been critical of Gov. Gavin Newsom's revised budget proposal ...

The sentencing reform initiatives calls for drug treatment as an alternative to more incarceration. Democrats appear in no ...

Prop 36 drug treatment programs don't have funding. Dow is one of dozens of district attorneys up and down the coast who are ...

One item not mentioned at all in the state budget is causing a stir for some conservative lawmakers and law enforcement ...

He is being absolutely recalcitrant because the voters didn’t vote the way he wanted them to and the way he told them to,” said one Republican lawmaker.

Proposition 36, a crime and drug treatment initiative passed by California voters, has been met with resistance from Governor ...

State legislators are considering two bills aimed at setting standards and helping fund drug court programs for Prop. 36.

His early January budget proposal included no extra money for treatment, probation or other court-related costs incurred by ...

Supporters of Proposition 36 argued it would connect repeat drug offenders with treatment to avoid jail time. Four months in, ...

Fresno County officials are concerned that Governor Gavin Newsom’s May Revise did not include state funding for the ...

SB 319 would require the state to track the costs of mandated treatment programs for addicted and/or mentally ill people ...

It appears that California’s leading Democrats prefer ... “The Governor’s budget not only fails to add dedicated funding for Proposition 36—it actually cuts funds currently being used ...