Reform-minded San Jose Mayor Matt Mahan has called the level of state funding for Prop. 36 behavioral health services a “joke ...

Implementing Proposition 36 is costing county government tens of millions of dollars at a time of major budget uncertainty.

County officials last year projected at least a $58 million annual budget hit if statewide criminal justice reform measure ...

One year after California voters passed Proposition 36, Los Angeles County Public Defender Ricardo Garcia has warned that the ...

The unanimous vote also calls for more money for community-based treatment, case management and reentry support.

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 ...