California voters overwhelmingly passed Proposition 36 on Tuesday. The law will reclassify some misdemeanor theft and drug crimes as felonies, creating a new category of crime called 'treatment ...

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

LA County DA Hochman reports over a thousand arrests since Proposition 36's implementation to combat retail theft.

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

California’s top prosecutors are urging legislators to fulfill the will of the people by funding the drug treatment that is a ...

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

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

Less than year after Proposition 36 was passed by California voters in a landslide, local law enforcement says that it's giving them a leg up in cracking down on retail theft. The law, which went ...

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

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.

Standing outside a 7-Eleven store that has been repeatedly targeted by flash-mob and other robberies, District Attorney Nathan Hochman Wednesday hailed what he called the success of the tough-on-crime ...