The city said 100 people lost welfare benefits for not complying with treatment last year, although flexible requirements ...
As Republican lawmakers search for deep spending cuts, a growing number of critics fear a roll-back of Medicaid dollars spent helping Americans slammed by the street fentanyl crisis. A report released ...
Billed as the “Homelessness, Drug Addiction and Theft Reduction Act” on the November 2024 ballot, Proposition 36 won easily with the support of more than two-thirds of California voters. The ...
Kern County has graduated its first Proposition 36 Drug Treatment Program participant, District Attorney Cynthia Zimmer announced Monday. Luis Miguel Torres, age 36, was arrested in January on ...
BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) — The Proposition 36 Drug Treatment Program in Kern County welcomed its first ever graduate on Monday, according to a release from the Kern County District Attorney’s Office ...
BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KERO) — Ten months after California voters approved Proposition 36, a Bakersfield man has become the first in Kern County to graduate from the new drug treatment court program, ...