January, 2009
Sacramento Bee
Friday, January 30, 2009
The Legislature's budget analyst, Mac Taylor, is proposing a smartly conceived expansion of the administration's modest proposal to shift some criminal justice functions to counties. Taylor's office would expand it to a $1.4 billion-per-year "realignment," including shifting some 14,000 low-risk inmates – primarily drug abusers and drunken drivers – from state prisons to local treatment programs. > more
KQED - Capital Notes
Tuesday, January 27, 2009
The LAO suggests California's 58 counties be given "full program authority and the corresponding financial responsibility" for juvenile offenders and adult substance abuse offenders. The current system, in the LAO's words, is "fragmented." > more
The Oakland Tribune
Friday, January 2, 2009
Silence The Violence director Nicole Lee explains the epidemic of violence in Oakland in 2008 and the continued disproportionate affects of crime on the same people year after year. > more
