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

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

California State Senator Tony Strickland is slamming Governor Gavin Newsom for not funding Proposition 36 in his recent ...

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 ...

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

The revised budget that Governor Gavin Newsom released Wednesday does not include direct funding for Proposition 36 — just ...

Proposition 36 was presented as a crackdown on crime meant to reform California's Proposition 47, which in 2014 reclassified many retail theft and drug-related felonies to misdemeanors in the ...

District Attorney Nathan Hochman on Wednesday hailed what he called the success of the tough-on-crime Proposition 36.

LA County DA Hochman hailed Prop 36 for deterring retail theft. The announcement was made outside a 7-Eleven that has been ...

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