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

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.

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 ...

For years, communities across California were being hit hard by thieves engaged in retail theft. But Los Angeles County ...

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

Nearly five months ago, law enforcement authorities across San Diego County started enforcing Proposition 36, which aimed to ...

SB 319 would require the state to track the costs of mandated treatment programs for addicted and/or mentally ill people ...

Gov. Gavin Newsom proposed closing another prison in his revised budget proposal. Newsom didn’t specify which prison could be ...

California Gov. Gavin Newsom has called for closing another prison as part of his newly revised budget proposal.

California’s falling incarcerated population has allowed Gov. Gavin Newsom to close four state prisons. Now he’s calling for ...

Newsom, the former mayor of San Francisco (which is both a city and a county), also evoked his time at City Hall as he chided local leaders. Back then, the governor noted, California provided little, ...