In 2022 Gov. Gavin Newsom floated a new concept to get seriously mentally ill individuals the help they need, and get them off the street. Many Californians, especially family members of people that need extra help, felt buoyed by this promise.  Newsom’s idea became CARE Court, and it rolled out to a few counties at […]

Los líderes de San Diego piden a California que tome medidas más enérgicas para abordar la actual crisis ambiental causada por las aguas residuales y la contaminación industrial que fluyen del río Tijuana.

CARE Court was supposed to be a new way to help homeless Californians in the grip of psychosis. But people are still falling through the cracks.

Gov. Gavin Newsom's CARE Court changed the way California treats people with severe mental illness. We spoke with dozens of participants to learn how it's working.

A diversion program created by the Legislature in 2020 has allowed some people charged with vehicular manslaughter to keep the case off of their driving record.

California is a state of immigrants. Research shows how current state and federal policies are affecting immigrant communities and California as a whole.

The law firm Fitzgerald, Alvarez and Ciummo has earned a nickname: The WalMart of public defense.  Over three decades, the firm has won county contracts to provide poor people with criminal defense in the state’s rural stretches. It’s done so by making aggressively low bids.  Old iterations of the firm’s website asked local politicians what […]

Flat-fee contracts have been banned in other parts of the country. But, as the story of one law firm shows, they have flourished in the Golden State.

San Diego leaders are calling on California to take stronger action to address the ongoing environmental crisis caused by sewage and industrial pollution flowing from the Tijuana River.

Californians with loved ones in the throes of severe mental illness embraced Gov. Newsom's CARE Court and helped him sign it into law. Two years later, some of them say little has changed.