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New California law could force people with mental illness to get treatment
The Hill via Yahoo News· 8 months agoA new California law will expand the state’s ability to force residents who are suffering from...
California lawmakers approve key changes to landmark mental health law
LA Times via Yahoo News· 9 months agoSenate Bill 43 expands the criteria for the detention, treatment and conservatorship to address the...
Newsom signs mental health bill expanding definition for conservatorship in California
Visalia Times-Delta | Tulare Advance Register via Yahoo News· 8 months agoGov. Gavin Newsom signed Senate Bill 43, which updates California’s conservatorship laws for the...
OPINION | Centralizing state Public Defender Board in a new bureaucracy is ill-advised
Shreveport Times | The Times via Yahoo News· 4 months agoI strongly support and commend Gov. Landry’s efforts to address the crisis of violent crime in...
'Against their will': A proposed law would make it easier to detain people with mental illness
LA Times via Yahoo News· 1 year agoThe latest effort to overhaul the LPS Act — California's landmark mental health legislation —...
California must do more to prevent the deaths of homeless residents. Here’s one way | Opinion
Sacramento Bee via Yahoo News· 1 year agoCalifornia hasn’t banned the death penalty; at least, not for our homeless neighbors. Nearly every...
Legislators propose changes to California's conservatorship law
LA Times via Yahoo News· 1 year agoLawmakers in the past have seen their attempts to amend the landmark 1967 Lanterman-Petris-Short Act...
Newsom sells voters ‘treatment not tents’ homelessness plan. Critics say it hurts mentally ill
Sacramento Bee via Yahoo News· 8 months agoCalifornia voters will decide in March whether the state should borrow $6.4 billion to add thousands...
‘We feel very violated:’ Gavin Newsom pushes mental health care changes over advocate concerns
Sacramento Bee via Yahoo News· 10 months agoGov. Gavin Newsom’s plan to overhaul how California counties pay for behavioral health care is one...
Gavin Newsom slams Sacramento County for delaying mental illness conservatorship reforms
Sacramento Bee via Yahoo News· 6 months agoCalifornia Gov. Gavin Newsom admonished Sacramento County on Friday for slow-walking a new law...