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California enacts modest tweaks to mental health court
Original: New laws make incremental tweaks to California’s mental health court, while bigger changes nixed
California has adopted new laws that make incremental adjustments to its mental health court system, while proposals for more sweeping structural changes failed to pass. The legislation refines how the court, which diverts people with serious mental illness away from jail and into treatment, operates, but leaves its broader framework intact after larger reform efforts were rejected.
Why now: Lawmakers and mental health advocates are weighing how far the state should go in reforming treatment-based diversion from criminal prosecution.
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- New laws make incremental tweaks to California’s mental health court, while bigger changes nixed · CalMatters
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