Newsom signs California CARE court bill

Now the hard work begins.

At the bill’s signing ceremony in San Jose on Wednesday, Gov. Gavin Newsom spoke about legislation he said was key to addressing one of California’s most glaring failures. people suffering from untreated mental illness living on our streets.

Newsom’s office first rolled out the Community Assistance, Recovery and Empowerment (CARE) Court proposal in March. This new court system will make it easier for loved ones, first responders, and mental health workers to enforce psychiatric treatment and housing for Californians with severe mental illness.

• Newsom: “We have time, but if we make it real, this might live on. And that’s hard work for next year.”

The tough job the governor was alluding to is that California’s 58 counties I really need to set up these new systems By 2025 — Seven counties will roll out the program within the next year.

But in addition to implementation and enforcement, it is almost certain that there will be litigation. Although the CARE Court bill passed both houses of Congress and was welcomed by both, at least some family It targets mentally ill and homeless Californians and is strongly opposed by many civil liberties and human rights groups.They warn that the new policy will put us back on track The good old days before the 1970s A population of California’s “mentally handicapped” were often indefinitely and unwittingly shut down to state hospitals.

The governor apparently took issue with the ACLU — or at least a similarly named organization — on Wednesday.

• Newsom: “Naturally, it’s one thing to get a letter to the contrary from a four-letter group that has been holding hands and talking about what the world should be like for 30, 40 years… and then, ‘Well, That’s great, but what about my damn daughter, what are you going to do for her?

Laws we are still waiting for: Three bills to force independent re-election commissions in Fresno, Kern, and Riverside counties. As CalMatters’ Sameea Kamal reportsproponents hope the change will increase representation, especially of Latinos.

Coronavirus conclusion: As of Thursday, California 10,329,995 confirmed cases (+0.01% compared to the previous day) When 94,558 deaths (+0.2% from the previous day)according to state data Now only updated once every Thursday. CalMatters is also tracking Coronavirus hospitalizations by county.

California administered 79,697,832 Vaccine dosageWhen 72.1% Eligible California Citizen fully vaccinated.

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Prop Politics in Numbers

Proposition 1 At least politically, it seems to be doing what it’s intended to do.

Remember: After the US Supreme Court ruled in June that there is no constitutional right to abortionOn Nov. 8, state legislators led by Senate Speaker Pro Tem Toni Atkins, a San Diego Democrat, rushed to introduce a bill that would enshrine abortion rights in the California Constitution.

California legislators aren’t likely to implement new restrictions on abortion anytime soon, but Proposition 1 serves a political purpose as well. Kansas politician, swing district candidate When pollster Note that putting abortion on the ballot in 2022 tends to draw Democrats to the ballot.

California Democrats Amendment Comes First in Vote: Hence suggestion 1.

Sure enough, New poll from the California Institute of Public Policy, 69% of potential voters said they planned to “yes” to the bill. (and previous vote According to the Institute of Government at the University of California, Berkeley, 71% of registered voters say yes. )

Enthusiasm for voting on this issue has been mixed. His 73% of Democrats surveyed said the results of Proposition 1 were “extremely important” to them. That’s a small percentage compared to just 48% of Republicans.

• PPIC President Mark Baldassare: “Clearly, abortion rights are a more important election issue for some voters than others, which means Prop. 1 could impact voter turnout. It means it could potentially benefit Choice candidates.”

Other big findings of the investigation:

• regardless of record breaking amount Proposition 27 to legalize online sports betting is not popular. Only 34% of his voters said they would vote “yes”.
• Voters have more mixed feelings about Proposition 30, a bill that would tax billionaires to fund electric vehicle incentives and infrastructure. About 55% of survey respondents agreed and 40% disagreed. But the investigation was conducted before the “no” campaign began blasting ads featuring Governor Newsom statewide.

The ‘Yes’ campaign says it’s now following suit with its own campaign ad buying round Los Angeles, San Diego, Sacramento, San Francisco.

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california vs amazon

California takes Everything Store to court.

On Wednesday, the California Department of Justice sued Amazonaccuses the tech giant of stifling competition and using its dominant market position to keep prices artificially high for at least a decade.

and Complaint on page 84 In a lawsuit filed in San Francisco Superior Court, Attorney General Rob Bonta made the following allegations:

• Amazon penalizes sellers on its platform for offering the same product at a lower price elsewhere online, including on its own website.
• When Amazon lowers the retail price of a product in line with its competitors, the wholesaler is forced to pay “compensation” costs to ensure Amazon’s pre-specified profit margin.

In a statement to CalMatters, an Amazon spokesperson said Bonta is “quite the opposite.”

• Spokesperson: “Amazon prides itself on offering low prices across a wide range of products and, like other stores, reserves the right not to emphasize offers to customers that are not competitively priced. The remedies sought by AG would force Amazon to offer higher prices to its customers and would strangely defeat a primary purpose of antitrust law.”

at a press conference Bonta, who announced the lawsuit, Call for elections until the end of a four-year term After being appointed to Newsom last year, he called it one of “the most significant and far-reaching lawsuits in recent memory to protect California consumers.” He said it should serve as a warning to other big companies.

• Bonta: “California consumers, small business owners, if you use your power to illegally bend markets at the expense of the economy, see you in court.”

California and the Amazon have history.Sacramento Congressman Passed Several bill For the past 10 years, we’ve been trying to get the company to collect sales tax on their products. This is not the first such challenge.European regulators pissed off the company For anti-competitive behavior and prosecutors in Washington, D.C., filed a similar unsuccessful lawsuit Earlier this year.

Bonta said he was “confident” in this current challenge, which in particular alleges violations of California law. Taking tech giants to court to defend low prices isn’t bad politics either.

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failure of regulation

sometimes—maybe many of of time — California institutions are not working as designed. Unfortunately, we have two more examples this week.

The first is by Jeanne Kuang and Alejandro Lazo of CalMatters. Who Explains How Often California Workers File Wage Theft Claims Their employers are actually paid even after they win.

Short summary: not very often.

Some shocking facts from their story, the latest “Unpaid wages meeting game” series:

• Only one in seven bosses who had a court ruling in a wage claim lawsuit in 2017 paid them the full amount after five years.
• The state wage claims system is so backlogged that it takes the average case almost four times longer than state law allows to reach a decision.

The following example is from CalMatters children and youth health reporter Elizabeth Aguilera.

In a report released Tuesday, state auditors said: Department of Health Services Continues to Fail Millions of Most Vulnerable California ChildrenFor nearly a decade, about half of the 5.5 million children enrolled in Medi-Cal, the state’s health insurance plan for low-income families, have not received the preventive services they need.

this is 2019 report first outlined failuresIn that report, the auditors made 14 recommendations to remedy the problem. So far, the FDA has not fully implemented her eight recommendations. Past plans to improve access have been put on hold because of the pandemic.

• Acting State Auditor Michael Tilden: “We believe the ongoing threat of COVID-19 and other epidemics will add, rather than lessen, reasons for DHCS to resume and improve its surveillance.”

In a response to CalMatters, department spokesperson Anthony Cava said it was “a cornerstone of improving child prevention services.” Program for the year It has been submitted to federal regulators.he is also the department’s official answer in the audit report.

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