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

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 ...

Sometimes plans made with the best intentions don’t pay off when you do the numbers. The thing to do then is not to throw your hands up in despair, but to analyze what has gone wrong, and fix it. Such ...

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