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A group of residents and business owners also filed a companion lawsuit against the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ho said his office had asked the city to enforce local laws around sidewalk obstruction and to create additional professionally operated camping sites, but that the city did not.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ho said the city is seeing a “collapse into chaos” and an “erosion of everyday life.” Courthouse workers have been harassed and assaulted downtown, and residents and businesses have to deal with drug users and property break-ins, while calls for help to city officials went unanswered, the lawsuit said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not compassionate to allow unsafe conditions to fester so badly that a 14-year-old boy cannot ride his bike to school or a group of little girls can’t play soccer on a field littered with needles,” the lawsuit said. “It’s not compassionate when someone in a wheelchair cannot use a sidewalk blocked by tents or a small business is forced to close forever due to repeated broken windows and vandalism.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sacramento County had nearly 9,300 homeless people in 2022, based on data from the annual Point-in-Time count. That was up 67% from 2019. Roughly three-quarters of the county’s homeless population is unsheltered, and the majority of that group is living on Sacramento streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Homeless tent encampments have grown visibly in cities across the U.S. but especially in California, which is home to \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/homeless-california-study-poverty-high-rent-a2a4bfc9b386cb70fdd14d593f31b68c\">nearly one-third of unhoused people\u003c/a> in the country. [pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Sacramento Mayor Darrell Steinberg\"]‘The city needs real partnership from the region’s leaders, not politics and lawsuits.’[/pullquote] Ho \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/homelessness-sacramento-district-attorney-mayor-lawsuit-b01d68283afea8a3010fc959180a5a5f\">had threatened in August\u003c/a> to file charges against city officials if they didn’t implement changes within 30 days. In a letter to the city, Ho demanded that Sacramento implement a daytime camping ban where homeless people have to put their belongings in storage between 6 a.m. and 9 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sacramento Mayor Darrell Steinberg said Ho was politicizing the issue. The city has added 1,200 emergency shelter beds, passed ordinances to protect sidewalks and schools and has created more affordable housing, Steinberg said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city is trying to avoid “the futile trap of just moving people endlessly from one block to the next,” Steinberg said. People’s frustrations are “absolutely justified” but Ho’s actions are a “performative distraction,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The city needs real partnership from the region’s leaders, not politics and lawsuits,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>City Attorney Susana Alcala Wood’s office has also repeatedly urged Ho to work with the city to address the issue, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It sadly appears the DA would rather point fingers and cast blame than partner to achieve meaningful solutions for our community,” Alcala Wood said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ho, elected in 2022 after vowing on the campaign trail to address the city’s homelessness crisis, said he’s asked the city to share real-time data about available shelter beds with law enforcement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is a rare opportunity — a rare opportunity — for us to effectuate meaningful, efficient means of getting the critically, chronically unhoused off the streets,” Ho said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ho said he supports a variety of solutions including enforcing laws and establishing new programs to provide services to people facing addiction or mental health issues. He said he supports a \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/mental-health-reform-investment-ballot-measure-eaed6702d5dd8e9a7d611029fdb0667c\">statewide bond measure\u003c/a> that would go toward building more treatment facilities. Voters will weigh in on that measure next year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The dispute between the district attorney and the city was further complicated by a lawsuit filed by a homeless advocacy group earlier this year that resulted in an order from a federal judge \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/heat-wave-homeless-sweeps-judge-order-58173a538f07b113557bf89ed8017309\">temporarily banning the city from clearing homeless encampments\u003c/a> during extreme heat. That order is now lifted but the group wants to see it extended.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The attorney for the homeless coalition also filed a complaint with the state bar this month, saying Ho abused his power by pushing the city to clear encampments when the order was in place. [aside label='More Stories on California’s Unhoused Community' tag='homelessness'] Ho’s news conference included testimony from residents who say the city is not providing resources to deal with homelessness. Emily Webb said people living in an encampment near her home have trespassed on her property, blocked her driveway and threatened her family, but city officials have done little to clear the camp.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re losing sleep and exhausted from this stress,” she said Tuesday. “We are beyond frustrated and no longer feel comfortable or safe in our home.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Critics have said encampments are unsanitary and lawless, and block children, older residents and disabled people from using public space such as sidewalks. They say allowing people to deteriorate outdoors is neither humane nor compassionate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But advocates for homeless people say they can’t alleviate the crisis without more investment in affordable housing and services, and that camping bans and encampment sweeps unnecessarily traumatize homeless people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Sacramento District Attorney Thien Ho announced the lawsuit Tuesday during a news conference in Sacramento.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1695167892,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":22,"wordCount":936},"headData":{"title":"Sacramento DA Sues City Over Failure to Sweep Homeless Encampments | KQED","description":"Sacramento District Attorney Thien Ho announced the lawsuit Tuesday during a news conference in Sacramento.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Sacramento DA Sues City Over Failure to Sweep Homeless Encampments","datePublished":"2023-09-19T23:58:12.000Z","dateModified":"2023-09-19T23:58:12.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"nprByline":"\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/nguyenntrann\">Trân Nguyễn\u003c/a>\u003cbr>The Associated Press","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","showOnAuthorArchivePages":"No","articleAge":"0","path":"/news/11961802/sacramento-da-sues-city-over-failure-to-sweep-homeless-encampments","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Sacramento’s top prosecutor is suing the city’s leaders over failure to clean up homeless encampments, escalating a monthslong dispute with leaders in the state capital.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>County District Attorney Thien Ho announced the lawsuit Tuesday during a news conference in Sacramento, noting the homeless population in the city has jumped 250% in the last seven years. A group of residents and business owners also filed a companion lawsuit against the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ho said his office had asked the city to enforce local laws around sidewalk obstruction and to create additional professionally operated camping sites, but that the city did not.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ho said the city is seeing a “collapse into chaos” and an “erosion of everyday life.” Courthouse workers have been harassed and assaulted downtown, and residents and businesses have to deal with drug users and property break-ins, while calls for help to city officials went unanswered, the lawsuit said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not compassionate to allow unsafe conditions to fester so badly that a 14-year-old boy cannot ride his bike to school or a group of little girls can’t play soccer on a field littered with needles,” the lawsuit said. “It’s not compassionate when someone in a wheelchair cannot use a sidewalk blocked by tents or a small business is forced to close forever due to repeated broken windows and vandalism.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sacramento County had nearly 9,300 homeless people in 2022, based on data from the annual Point-in-Time count. That was up 67% from 2019. Roughly three-quarters of the county’s homeless population is unsheltered, and the majority of that group is living on Sacramento streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Homeless tent encampments have grown visibly in cities across the U.S. but especially in California, which is home to \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/homeless-california-study-poverty-high-rent-a2a4bfc9b386cb70fdd14d593f31b68c\">nearly one-third of unhoused people\u003c/a> in the country. \u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘The city needs real partnership from the region’s leaders, not politics and lawsuits.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Sacramento Mayor Darrell Steinberg","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp> Ho \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/homelessness-sacramento-district-attorney-mayor-lawsuit-b01d68283afea8a3010fc959180a5a5f\">had threatened in August\u003c/a> to file charges against city officials if they didn’t implement changes within 30 days. In a letter to the city, Ho demanded that Sacramento implement a daytime camping ban where homeless people have to put their belongings in storage between 6 a.m. and 9 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sacramento Mayor Darrell Steinberg said Ho was politicizing the issue. The city has added 1,200 emergency shelter beds, passed ordinances to protect sidewalks and schools and has created more affordable housing, Steinberg said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city is trying to avoid “the futile trap of just moving people endlessly from one block to the next,” Steinberg said. People’s frustrations are “absolutely justified” but Ho’s actions are a “performative distraction,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The city needs real partnership from the region’s leaders, not politics and lawsuits,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>City Attorney Susana Alcala Wood’s office has also repeatedly urged Ho to work with the city to address the issue, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It sadly appears the DA would rather point fingers and cast blame than partner to achieve meaningful solutions for our community,” Alcala Wood said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ho, elected in 2022 after vowing on the campaign trail to address the city’s homelessness crisis, said he’s asked the city to share real-time data about available shelter beds with law enforcement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is a rare opportunity — a rare opportunity — for us to effectuate meaningful, efficient means of getting the critically, chronically unhoused off the streets,” Ho said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ho said he supports a variety of solutions including enforcing laws and establishing new programs to provide services to people facing addiction or mental health issues. He said he supports a \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/mental-health-reform-investment-ballot-measure-eaed6702d5dd8e9a7d611029fdb0667c\">statewide bond measure\u003c/a> that would go toward building more treatment facilities. Voters will weigh in on that measure next year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The dispute between the district attorney and the city was further complicated by a lawsuit filed by a homeless advocacy group earlier this year that resulted in an order from a federal judge \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/heat-wave-homeless-sweeps-judge-order-58173a538f07b113557bf89ed8017309\">temporarily banning the city from clearing homeless encampments\u003c/a> during extreme heat. That order is now lifted but the group wants to see it extended.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The attorney for the homeless coalition also filed a complaint with the state bar this month, saying Ho abused his power by pushing the city to clear encampments when the order was in place. \u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"label":"More Stories on Californias Unhoused Community ","tag":"homelessness"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp> Ho’s news conference included testimony from residents who say the city is not providing resources to deal with homelessness. Emily Webb said people living in an encampment near her home have trespassed on her property, blocked her driveway and threatened her family, but city officials have done little to clear the camp.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re losing sleep and exhausted from this stress,” she said Tuesday. “We are beyond frustrated and no longer feel comfortable or safe in our home.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Critics have said encampments are unsanitary and lawless, and block children, older residents and disabled people from using public space such as sidewalks. They say allowing people to deteriorate outdoors is neither humane nor compassionate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But advocates for homeless people say they can’t alleviate the crisis without more investment in affordable housing and services, and that camping bans and encampment sweeps unnecessarily traumatize homeless people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11961802/sacramento-da-sues-city-over-failure-to-sweep-homeless-encampments","authors":["byline_news_11961802"],"categories":["news_31795","news_8"],"tags":["news_18538","news_596","news_21214","news_4020","news_1775","news_95","news_33220","news_33221"],"featImg":"news_11961810","label":"news"},"news_11961241":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11961241","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11961241","score":null,"sort":[1694786726000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"inside-californias-landmark-mental-health-reforms","title":"Inside California's Landmark Mental Health Reforms","publishDate":1694786726,"format":"audio","headTitle":"Inside California’s Landmark Mental Health Reforms | KQED","labelTerm":{"term":33544,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"#episode-transcript\">\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">View the full episode transcript.\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the last day of the legislative session, Scott and Marisa head to Sacramento and recap the most controversial bills heading to Governor Gavin Newsom’s desk. Then, they talk about the governor’s landmark reforms to mental health spending with Dana Williamson, Newsom’s chief of staff, and Sacramento Mayor Darrell Steinberg. They discuss the history of the Mental Health Services Act, and share their personal connection to the issue and their response to criticisms of the reforms.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 id=\"episode-transcript\">Episode Transcript\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">This is a computer-generated transcript. While our team has reviewed it, there may be errors.\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Scott Shafer:\u003c/strong> Hey everybody, from KQED Public Radio, it’s Political Breakdown. I’m Scott Shafer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Marisa Lagos:\u003c/strong> And I’m Marisa Lagos. On today’s show, we are up in Sacramento today, where it is the homestretch for this year’s legislative session. There is a midnight deadline looming for final action on dozens of bills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Scott Shafer:\u003c/strong> And who better to join us, Marisa, for that than a couple of movers and shakers at the state Capitol. Dana Williamson, who’s currently chief of staff to Governor Gavin Newsom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Marisa Lagos:\u003c/strong> And Sacramento Mayor Darrell Steinberg, who served as president pro tem of the state Senate before Newsom was governor. We’re going to get their insights on some of the most important developments in Sacramento this year, namely a plan to revamp California’s mental health care system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Scott Shafer:\u003c/strong> Exactly. But first of all, Marisa. Yes, as always happens at the end of session, lots of last minute deals, amendments of bills, and still plenty of big issues to be resolved, including, of course, some bills involving labor, housing, taxes, a couple of hundred bills, I think still left. But one of the big resolutions, I guess you could say, that came out this week involving labor and it’s been a very good session for organized labor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Marisa Lagos:\u003c/strong> Hot labor summer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Scott Shafer:\u003c/strong> Hot labor summer, it’s turning out to be a nice fall as well for them. But the deal struck will raise the pay of fast food workers up to $20 an hour. And it’s going to they’ll be taking off a ballot measure, a referendum on a law signed by the governor that would have been very costly, very nasty. You know, with labor on one side, the fast food industry on the other. And I think this is a great example of how pressure can be brought to bear to bring everybody to the table to get things done and so that the voters don’t have to do it. And I think it’s just a better way of making law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Marisa Lagos:\u003c/strong> Well, not to be too in the weeds here, but part of the reason this was possible to make this deal is because the governor already signed a bill this session just a few days ago to allow referendums to be taken off the ballot. This follows the law a few years ago doing the same things with initiatives which Darrell Steinberg, he is mentioning over here without.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Scott Shafer:\u003c/strong> Don’t come in yet, we’ll talk to him about that later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Marisa Lagos:\u003c/strong> He wrote that bill originally. But, yeah, I mean, it has really changed that. And now this, has really changed the kind of negotiations we see between often now business groups and the legislature. And the other bill we’ll be watching is this Constitutional Amendment 13 just got sent to Newsom. Okay. I’m going to try to explain this very simply. It essentially says that if a ballot measure would increase the amount of voter approval, that it…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Scott Shafer:\u003c/strong> Too late!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Marisa Lagos:\u003c/strong> I already messed it up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Scott Shafer:\u003c/strong> You know, I want to come back to the referendum thing because one of the other things that the governor signed is going to change what voters see on the ballot. I think that is huge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Marisa Lagos:\u003c/strong> Okay, fine Scott.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Scott Shafer:\u003c/strong> \u003cem>[laughs]\u003c/em> I’m saving you here from going further down that hole.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead of seeing the yes or no on referendums, which can be confusing, and sometimes the proponents or opponents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Marisa Lagos:\u003c/strong> Because you’re saying yes to overturn a law right now, instead of yes to keeping the law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Scott Shafer:\u003c/strong> So it’s going to be either keep the law or overturn the law be much clearer. And I think that maybe we’ll see fewer referenda on the ballot because now it’s a little harder to trick voters, honestly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Marisa Lagos:\u003c/strong> All right. I’m just going to skip ACA 13 for now. We’ll talk about it a lot, we talked about it a few weeks ago. It’s going to be a big fight in 2024 over taxes and the threshold it takes to pass them. But a couple other labor bills before we move on. One sent to Newsom will allow lawmakers staff to organize, this is a big priority of former Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez, who’s now running labor outside of the building. Another would increase from 3 to 5 days the guaranteed sick leave that California workers get. This is in the COVID era.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Scott Shafer:\u003c/strong> I’m watching Dana shaking her head, nodding her head, reading the tea leaves here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Marisa Lagos:\u003c/strong> We’ll see. And then the other big one that is not yet to the governor’s desk could be voted on in the next few hours. Unemployment benefits for striking workers. This is something that really gets under the skin of the business community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Scott Shafer:\u003c/strong> Yeah, let’s have the employers pay for the workers on strike.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Marisa Lagos:\u003c/strong> Scott, run us down. There’s a few kind of, I would say more fun bills that are maybe tough calls for the governor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Scott Shafer:\u003c/strong> Yeah, Yeah. Okay. So this one’s been on his desk before and he turned thumbs down. But this is another Scott Weiner attempt to decriminalize magic mushrooms, psychedelic mushrooms, which are used in therapy for PTSD increasingly. There is evidence, actually, that it does work well for depression, PTSD, and some other things. Veterans groups are for it, not surprisingly, law enforcement not so excited about it. So that we’ll see what he does on that. Any indication? No, Dana’s like poker faced. Also, another pot related pot bill the Haney bill to allow he always says allows pot stores to sell muffins and tea which makes it sound so wholesome, which it is, but also have entertainment. Because those clubs are struggling, they’re having a hard time making money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dana Williamson:\u003c/strong> Cannabis cafes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Scott Shafer:\u003c/strong> Oh, look, she’s talking. Who will put her microphone on? Cannabis cafes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Marisa Lagos:\u003c/strong> Yeah. I mean, Prop 64, I think was very strict in how it allowed cannabis businesses to operate. This would loosen some of those, and Assemblyman Matt Haney says would really help them out. And then finally, Skittles. A ban on certain additives, including those that are what Skittles use to make those the rainbow of colors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Scott Shafer:\u003c/strong> All I’m saying is don’t touch my M&Ms. I don’t care what they do with the Skittles. Okay. We’re going to take a short break. And when we return, we’re going to be joined by Sacramento Mayor Darrell Steinberg, former lawmaker, of course, as well. And Dana Williamson, a Capitol veteran who is now Governor Gavin Newsom’s chief of staff. You’re listening to Political Breakdown from KQED Public Radio.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Scott Shafer:\u003c/strong> And welcome back to Political Breakdown. I’m Scott Shafer here with Marissa Largo’s. We’re up in Sacramento, where the legislature is wrapping up its session this week. And who better to talk about the highlights and perhaps the lowlights of the session but a pair of political pros. Sacramento mayor and former Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg and political strategist Dana Williamson, chief of staff to Governor Newsom. Welcome back, both of you to Political Breakdown, this a repeat visit for both of you, we’re happy to have you. And together.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Darrell Steinberg:\u003c/strong> Thrilled to be here with Dana and together.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Marisa Lagos:\u003c/strong> You guys have so many titles, jeez.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Scott Shafer:\u003c/strong> Yeah. Well, let’s talk about one of the big issues, of course, that you’re grappling with, the legislature is dealing with has to do with mental health. And it’s part of it as a reform of a bill that you, sir, mayor authored 20 some years ago that was on the ballot, a bill to tax millionaires for money for mental health, right?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Darrell Steinberg:\u003c/strong> Yes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Scott Shafer:\u003c/strong> Well before we go into that. And so so now what’s on the table now is to take some of that money and use it for housing for people who are suffering mental illness. Why the change? And then we’ll talk about the other $6 billion bond measure in a minute.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Darrell Steinberg:\u003c/strong> So back in 2004, I was still in the assembly, actually. We had this idea, this idea that we go to the voters to uphold the promise that Governor Reagan and the legislature made back in the 1960s when they shut the state mental hospitals to fund a decent system of community mental health care. And of course, for many decades that promise was unfulfilled. And so we authored and put before the voters Proposition 63, and the voters said yes, 53% of the vote, a tax on on millionaires. The money started at about $700 million. It’s now grown to over $4 billion annually. And it’s one of the largest sources of public mental health funding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The original intent was to ensure that the money went to the people who were the sickest of the sick. It was really a homeless mental health initiative. That was the motivation. Over the course of 20 years, it has done a lot of good. And in fact, I would say with the counties who are sort of a player in all this, because the money goes to them, they have spent the money well, in my opinion. The problem has been up until Gavin Newsom became governor, there was no executive leadership, truth be told, that said, the state needs to set priorities here. If we want the money to be spent on the homeless, mentally ill or people coming in and out of the criminal justice system with serious mental illnesses, then we have to say that. And so that’s the essence of the reform here. And I could not be more pleased, as the original author of the bill, that the governor, Dana, who added a significant piece to this as well, which I’m sure she will talk about, that they have taken the mantle that Susan Eggman and the legislature going forward and that this is going to pass. The voters will say yes again, I’m confident, and then we will have an improved Mental Behavioral Health Services Act in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Marisa Lagos:\u003c/strong> Well, as Scott mentioned, though, Dana, this is not just changing the way Prop 63 funds. This is also a $6.3 billion bond with a B. That’s a lot of money, to build treatment beds. Talk about why that’s needed and why hasn’t $4 billion a year been enough? I mean, what is what is the problem you guys are trying to solve here?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dana Williamson:\u003c/strong> Well, if you’re talking about specifically about the bond itself, one of the biggest problems and you can ask anyone, I mean, Darrell’s mayor now, right, and he sees this every day is there aren’t places for people to go. So you end up, folks end up in ERs, they end up in jail. They end up back on the streets. And so this really was that piece that we really needed. And it’s different from what the old state hospitals were, you know, the sort of really institutionalized settings. These are going to be community-based facilities. Some will be buildings that are rebuilt and refurbished, some will be stood up new, and they can take on lots of different forms depending on what a region or community needs. And again, going back to the promises of Ronald Reagan, that was the whole idea, right? We’re going to take people out of state facilities. They’re going to go into their communities, They’re going to get services, but they’re just isn’t capacity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Marisa Lagos:\u003c/strong> And the mental health problems gotten worse during this time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Scott Shafer:\u003c/strong> And it’s changed, too. The nature of it has changed a little bit. But I’m wondering, you know, you mentioned Ronald Reagan, but counties, you know, are using that money well, and some of that money if this passes, if the voters pass it, would get diverted to housing. And counties are concerned that, you know, hundreds of millions of dollars that they would have for services are going to go away. How do you respond to that concern?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Darrell Steinberg:\u003c/strong> Well, several ways. Number one, I go back to the original intent of the Act, which was to house people and to provide the comprehensive services for people living on the streets with serious mental illness. So, this gets back to the original intent. Secondly, the MHSA, as we call it, the reform and the bond is not in isolation. This is now the fifth or sixth year that the governor and the legislature have led on mental health, and they’ve provided a huge number of resources, four plus billion dollars for a youth mental health initiative, what’s called CalAIM, the Medicaid reform where now health care money can be used for a form of wraparound services. And so there’s more resources than ever before. And with this change, now is a catalyst to actually create a system that is coherent and that provides something for everyone depending on what their needs are. That’s the bed thing that Dana was talking about a moment ago. That’s the biggest thing at the local level. We don’t have places for people to go and some people need board and care, some people can live independently, some people need, you know, a more secure facility. Well, this bond together with the MHSA reform, is going to allow us to get a lot more of that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Marisa Lagos:\u003c/strong> Can I ask, before we get too much further into the weeds of this, like what you both are very passionate about, this is their personal experiences that have made you want to tackle this issue and take it on? I mean, we don’t get you in here, Dana as the chief of staff for every issue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dana Williamson:\u003c/strong> I mean, listen, I think working on this, either you you don’t talk to a single person that hasn’t been touched by mental health issues, whether they’re own personal ones, family members, in their work. So I think you could say it’s personal to most people. I think Darrell’s been very open about his daughter and his own experiences. I had a particularly tough experience with my husband that I learned a lot from. I mean, I was, you know, working for Jerry Brown at the time. And when the incident happened with him, I learned about all the holes in the system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Marisa Lagos\u003c/strong>: And you’re a well-resourced person, right?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dana Williamson\u003c/strong>: I mean, I could call literally anyone. Darrell will tell you, I was on the phone with Darrell every day. You know and once I step back from when it happened and could look more broadly and and go, okay, wait a minute, like this is crazy. People didn’t know who to call to get help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Scott Shafer:\u003c/strong> And even if they did, the help wasn’t necessarily there in some cases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dana Williamson:\u003c/strong> Right, and there’s a there’s another bill that’s in the legislature today, too, that Susan Eggman is also doing that that adds mental health to the conservatorship laws, which I know is controversial. But the difference is, is that right now, either only law enforcement or an E.R. can, you know, take someone in who’s really, really going to harm themselves. But people with a long history of mental health issues doesn’t qualify for that\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Scott Shafer:\u003c/strong> Even under the CARE Court legislation? Which we’ll get into in a minute.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dana Williamson:\u003c/strong> Well CARE Court is different. That’s a different setup. But this is more just the current laws on the books that are, what, 50 years old?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Darrell Steinberg:\u003c/strong> 1967.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dana Williamson:\u003c/strong> They’re old. So there’s that. But the other thing is I learned I mean, it was the beds. I mean, I was on the phone, you know, six hours in a row just trying to find space. So if that’s me and I can literally call anyone and —\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Marisa Lagos\u003c/strong>: And you have the money to pay for it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dana Williamson\u003c/strong>: And I had the money to pay for it. All I thought about after the fact was my God, like my neighbor that what do people do?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Scott Shafer:\u003c/strong> Mayor, I don’t know if you want to talk about your daughter, feel free to. But I’m also wondering, you are now the mayor and you were in the legislature passing bills and, you know, supporting or opposing things. And I’m wondering, you know, we asked Jerry Brown this question after he had been mayor of Oakland. How do you see what Sacramento does — when I say Sacramento, I mean the capitol — differently now that you’re mayor?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Darrell Steinberg:\u003c/strong> Well, first of all, you ask about my daughter. She’s doing great in life, which is a, you know, one of many examples that if we do the right things, that people can get better and live full and productive lives. The other thing personal to me, and I think it’s an important point, is that I introduced my first mental health bills before my family was ever affected by this. People think it’s the other way around, that I was motivated because of my own personal situation, it was the opposite. And it proves the point that this is about everybody, that everybody knows somebody, every family. And what’s happened over 20 years in a good way, not that the stigma is completely busted or over, but oh my God, no one would introduce a mental health bill in the legislature in 2000. And now it is the issue of our time, combined with gubernatorial leadership like we’ve never had before and all of a sudden there is the chance to fulfill that promise from the 1960s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To answer your question, Scott, I guess the difference is the lawmaking role is to make the law and to provide oversight, but then to move on to your next law. As a mayor, of course, you see the impact not just of the law itself, but on whether or not it is implemented in the way it was originally intended. And that gets back to the Mental Health Services Act, Proposition 63. We believed that we were providing funding for the counties to get out into the streets in these encampments and to provide that wraparound model that was the basis for the initiative. And while, again, the counties have spent the money well, that population has not got nearly enough focus. So the governor says and Senator Eggman says more money for housing for people who are unsheltered or at risk of losing their housing, more money for the wraparound service model that we know works. That’s the right direction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Marisa Lagos:\u003c/strong> But on the other hand, I mean, we’ve we’ve sort of spelled out that the mental illness crisis does go well beyond visible homelessness and people with very extreme problems. I’m just wondering, are we thinking enough about preventing people from getting to that point? Obviously, you guys have to walk and chew gum at the same time. But I think some critics would say this is only through the prism of homelessness, not through, you know, preventing younger kids from falling into that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dana Williamson:\u003c/strong> Actually a big component of the reforms, the original Prop 63 did include intervention for kids.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Darrell Steinberg:\u003c/strong> Twenty percent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dana Williamson:\u003c/strong> And that continues with this. Because you’re absolutely right. It’s like get ahead of it, talk about it. You know, make it so that, you know, folks recognize when someone’s struggling and what to do. And there’s resources for that in this as well. So it’s both. And I think to the mayor’s point, what we’re trying to create is a system and it’s not just this package, but it is CalAIM, it is all of the other components to this where all of those services are combined and utilized.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Scott Shafer:\u003c/strong> You know, disability rights advocates were very concerned this week when some language was stripped out that would have prevented using money from this for involuntary confinement. And their idea, the notion was it was a bait and switch, last minute, not enough discussion about it. Your response?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dana Williamson:\u003c/strong> Can I take this one first?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Darrell Steinberg:\u003c/strong> You take this one first. Yes of course.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dana Williamson:\u003c/strong> Listen, we talked to a lot of counties, a lot of advocates, a lot of folks out there, I mean, that had lots of opinions and really based on their city or county or region and it’s different everywhere. But we got a lot of feedback about allowing locked beds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And I will say this: my husband would be dead right now if that was not available. So this isn’t about, you know, confining people forever. But sometimes in order for folks to get that immediate treatment, they’ve got to be in a secure facility. If it had been unsecure in my case, he would have run and been gone. So I think you’ve got to kind of take it in perspective.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Darrell Steinberg:\u003c/strong> First of all, the Mental Health Services Act, we legislatively amended the law when I was in the legislature to allow the money to be used for services regardless of someone’s legal status. So it shouldn’t matter. I mean, somebody needs the services, they need the services. MHSA never paid for the custody part of it or the law enforcement part of it and it still won’t.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s what I can assure people: that the coin of the realm will always be voluntary services, because that’s what works best over time. And yet it is a continuum. And so there are people who, you know, often because of drugs, by the way, not just mental illness that are so sick that they’re unable to care for themselves. They are a danger to themselves. And so it is appropriate to use those tools. But so long as the coin of the realm continues to be early intervention and voluntary services with involuntary as a last resort, I think that’s the way the system should be, because in the end, nobody should be living on the streets of California, period. And if we start from that perspective, then you do whatever it takes on either side to make sure they’re not on the street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Marisa Lagos:\u003c/strong> You brought up substance abuse. And I think that that is a question probably people in the public might have, which is like, what is the interplay here? Because so much of what we see on the streets can be a combination of these two issues. How does that kind of part of this play into it, given the fentanyl crisis, given what’s happening every day?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dana Williamson:\u003c/strong> Yeah, I mean, I think, you know, I think “continuum” was the right word here because you have folks that start off and have mental health issues who decide to use drugs and then the substance abuse exacerbates that. You have folks who use drugs that cause mental illness. I mean, it runs with this broad spectrum. Some people are on the streets, but people are doing that in their, you know, in their own lives, too. And they go to the E.R., a family member takes them to the E.R. and there’s ultimately probably three days in the E.R. is not going to be enough. So looking for some other place for folks to get treatment is super important to notice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Scott Shafer:\u003c/strong> If you’re just joining us, you’re listening to the Political Breakdown from KQED. I’m Scott Shafer here with Marisa Lagos. We’re up in Sacramento, where the legislature is making its final push on legislation this year. I should say, we’re taping this in the afternoon, so things may happen between now and midnight. But we’re talking with Governor Newsom’s chief of staff, Dana Williamson, and Sacramento Mayor Darrell Steinberg. This is a fund raising period for KQED Public Radio. For more information, go to KQED.org\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I want to ask about care courts, which is more than a little bit related to all of this. It was also Susan Eggman was one of the authors of a bill that the governor signed, it passed with huge bipartisan support, will allow more people to sort of steer folks who have addiction and mental illness and living on the streets into treatment. And I’m just wondering, you know, you said a moment ago there aren’t enough beds. And that’s the big concern that counties like San Francisco, which are going to go first, like in October, have. What assurances do you have for these counties that there will be enough beds for these things?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Marisa Lagos:\u003c/strong> Perhaps a $6 billion bond?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Scott Shafer:\u003c/strong> But that takes a while and the voters have to approve it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dana Williamson:\u003c/strong> But I will say, I mean, some of these cities they have, they can calibrate in a CARE Court situation, right? You take CARE Court and you’re — okay, this person is going to get treatment and they can go to here. Where the totality of the problem is so much bigger that that’s where the bond comes in and creates this much broader ability to have rooms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Scott Shafer:\u003c/strong> So you think there will be enough beds coming October for these counties that are going first?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dana Williamson:\u003c/strong> Yeah, I think so. But Darrell you were a big supporter of this.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Darrell Steinberg:\u003c/strong> I’m a big supporter of CARE Court. Look one of the things we know from history is that the collaborative court model works. That where counties have, and most counties do have mental health courts or substance abuse courts, with a tough and compassionate judge, that this can be a pathway for somebody to get the help and treatment that they would not otherwise get. And so CARE Court to me is just an extension of that. The challenge with collaborative courts has been there’s not enough of them. And so now the administration, the Newsom administration and the legislature said we’re going to invest in more pathways for treatment for people. And CARE Court is one way. It’s a tool, but an important tool.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You know, I don’t say I’ve changed on this because I’ve always believed that voluntary services are the way to go. But really, when when you when you look at it from a big picture and you ask yourself, what is it going to take to make sure that people are not freezing to death and are being subject to abuse of all kinds out on the streets, the impacts on our communities. Then you say whatever tools it takes and CARE Court, I think is going to be an important and I hope effective tool.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Scott Shafer:\u003c/strong> Although to be clear, you’re hoping for the black robe effect, right? You can’t really if people say, after all this, I don’t want to do it, you can’t really force them, right?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dana Williamson:\u003c/strong> No.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Darrell Steinberg:\u003c/strong> No. But you can you can push.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Marisa Lagos:\u003c/strong> Speaking of pushing, this is going to be on the ballot. You do need to convince voters to pass both of these measures. What do you see as the biggest political hurdles, especially given kind of what you’ve already come through, pushing it through the legislature?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dana Williamson:\u003c/strong> You know, I’ve actually seen polling on these issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Marisa Lagos:\u003c/strong> No \u003cem>[laughs]\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dana Williamson:\u003c/strong> I know you’re totally shocked. And the truth is, it’s unbelievable how across parties, across every single demographic, folks want something done. A lot of things going into this that I thought might be politically hard, weren’t. I think folks are just ready for change. And again, more people are touched by it. More people are talking about it. There are more people on the streets. So it’s just present in everybody’s lives now. So I you know, it should tell you something that we’re not afraid to put this on a March ballot in a competitive presidential primary for the Republican side. And still think it’s going to be okay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Darrell Steinberg:\u003c/strong> It’s not a new tax. It’s simply updating what is already on the books.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dana Williamson:\u003c/strong> It’s reform and beds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Scott Shafer:\u003c/strong> Quick question, we’re getting to the end, but how are you going to evaluate this? I mean, you know, the bond measure, let’s say it passes, it takes a long time. You got to deal with NIMBYs and, you know, all other kinds of obstacles. I know it’s been streamlined—\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dana Williamson:\u003c/strong> There’s some streamlining.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Scott Shafer:\u003c/strong> But it’s going to take a while in the best of circumstances.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dana Williamson:\u003c/strong> Well, on the reform side, there’s some new accountability measures built in with that about where the money goes and how it’s spent and, you know, audits and all the things. So I do think there’s lots of mechanisms on the reform side. On the bond side, yes, it’s going to take time to do it. We are actually currently, you know, hoping the voters want to support this, of course, looking at locations and, you know, what it would take to build or what it would take to refurbish. So we’re doing all that work now, but we’re hopeful if this passes and the money becomes available, that we can get started quickly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Darrell Steinberg:\u003c/strong> One of the less high profile parts of the MHC modernization is the requirement that the state and the counties work together on specific outcome measures. And over time, those outcome measures need to drive any future legislation, right? What the people want. People don’t expect a cure. They just want it to be better.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dana Williamson:\u003c/strong> And they want action. I think that’s the biggest piece of this.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Scott Shafer:\u003c/strong> Little late breaking information here. The Senate has just given final approval to the bill allowing striking workers to be eligible for unemployment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dana Williamson:\u003c/strong> Here we go.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Scott Shafer:\u003c/strong> That hot potato is heading your way, Dana.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dana Williamson:\u003c/strong> Fantastic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Scott Shafer:\u003c/strong> So we’ll see. No doubt there’ll be some other things heading to the governor between now and midnight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Marisa Lagos:\u003c/strong> Before we wrap, so I take it the governor will be out campaigning for these?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dana Williamson:\u003c/strong> Oh, yeah. If he were here, he’d tell you this is his biggest priority.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Darrell Steinberg:\u003c/strong> And I’m joining him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Marisa Lagos:\u003c/strong> Yeah, you’re hitting the road, mayor?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Scott Shafer:\u003c/strong> Do you miss being out, like, statewide, doing stuff?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Darrell Steinberg:\u003c/strong> I still get around a little bit, but yes, I loved my job as a legislator. I love being mayor, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Scott Shafer:\u003c/strong> It’s a tough job, right?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Darrell Steinberg:\u003c/strong> Nothing like having the honor of making law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Scott Shafer:\u003c/strong> And being in Sacramento gives you a little distance from those constituents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dana Williamson:\u003c/strong> The mayor and I are coming full circle because I was working for Jerry Brown when he was pro-tem. So, yeah, just a long history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Marisa Lagos:\u003c/strong> Musical chairs, musical chairs. Well thank you, guys so much for being here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Scott Shafer:\u003c/strong> Yeah, thank you both. We know you don’t do these all the time, and to have you both in studio is great.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dana Williamson:\u003c/strong> Happy to do it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Darrell Steinberg:\u003c/strong> Thank you.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Scott Shafer:\u003c/strong> Dana Williamson, chief of staff to Governor Newsom and Darrell Steinberg, you have a lot of titles, mayor is the current one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Darrell Steinberg:\u003c/strong> Just Darrell.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Scott Shafer:\u003c/strong> Just Darrell. All right, that’ll do it for this edition of Political Breakdown, a production of KQED Public Radio.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Marisa Lagos:\u003c/strong> Our engineer today is Christopher Beale, our producers is Guy Marzorati. I’m Marisa Lagos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Scott Shafer:\u003c/strong> And I’m Scott Shafer. Thanks for listening everybody and we’ll see you next time.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Sacramento Mayor Darrell Steinberg and Governor Newsom's chief of staff Dana Williamson on the changes to mental health spending going before voters in March.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1700874514,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":122,"wordCount":5843},"headData":{"title":"Inside California's Landmark Mental Health Reforms | KQED","description":"Sacramento Mayor Darrell Steinberg and Governor Newsom's chief of staff Dana Williamson on the changes to mental health spending going before voters in March.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Inside California's Landmark Mental Health Reforms","datePublished":"2023-09-15T14:05:26.000Z","dateModified":"2023-11-25T01:08:34.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"audioUrl":"https://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/chrt.fm/track/G6C7C3/traffic.megaphone.fm/KQINC6552496592.mp3","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","articleAge":"0","path":"/news/11961241/inside-californias-landmark-mental-health-reforms","audioDuration":1751000,"audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"#episode-transcript\">\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">View the full episode transcript.\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the last day of the legislative session, Scott and Marisa head to Sacramento and recap the most controversial bills heading to Governor Gavin Newsom’s desk. Then, they talk about the governor’s landmark reforms to mental health spending with Dana Williamson, Newsom’s chief of staff, and Sacramento Mayor Darrell Steinberg. They discuss the history of the Mental Health Services Act, and share their personal connection to the issue and their response to criticisms of the reforms.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 id=\"episode-transcript\">Episode Transcript\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">This is a computer-generated transcript. While our team has reviewed it, there may be errors.\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Scott Shafer:\u003c/strong> Hey everybody, from KQED Public Radio, it’s Political Breakdown. I’m Scott Shafer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Marisa Lagos:\u003c/strong> And I’m Marisa Lagos. On today’s show, we are up in Sacramento today, where it is the homestretch for this year’s legislative session. There is a midnight deadline looming for final action on dozens of bills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Scott Shafer:\u003c/strong> And who better to join us, Marisa, for that than a couple of movers and shakers at the state Capitol. Dana Williamson, who’s currently chief of staff to Governor Gavin Newsom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Marisa Lagos:\u003c/strong> And Sacramento Mayor Darrell Steinberg, who served as president pro tem of the state Senate before Newsom was governor. We’re going to get their insights on some of the most important developments in Sacramento this year, namely a plan to revamp California’s mental health care system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Scott Shafer:\u003c/strong> Exactly. But first of all, Marisa. Yes, as always happens at the end of session, lots of last minute deals, amendments of bills, and still plenty of big issues to be resolved, including, of course, some bills involving labor, housing, taxes, a couple of hundred bills, I think still left. But one of the big resolutions, I guess you could say, that came out this week involving labor and it’s been a very good session for organized labor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Marisa Lagos:\u003c/strong> Hot labor summer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Scott Shafer:\u003c/strong> Hot labor summer, it’s turning out to be a nice fall as well for them. But the deal struck will raise the pay of fast food workers up to $20 an hour. And it’s going to they’ll be taking off a ballot measure, a referendum on a law signed by the governor that would have been very costly, very nasty. You know, with labor on one side, the fast food industry on the other. And I think this is a great example of how pressure can be brought to bear to bring everybody to the table to get things done and so that the voters don’t have to do it. And I think it’s just a better way of making law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Marisa Lagos:\u003c/strong> Well, not to be too in the weeds here, but part of the reason this was possible to make this deal is because the governor already signed a bill this session just a few days ago to allow referendums to be taken off the ballot. This follows the law a few years ago doing the same things with initiatives which Darrell Steinberg, he is mentioning over here without.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Scott Shafer:\u003c/strong> Don’t come in yet, we’ll talk to him about that later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Marisa Lagos:\u003c/strong> He wrote that bill originally. But, yeah, I mean, it has really changed that. And now this, has really changed the kind of negotiations we see between often now business groups and the legislature. And the other bill we’ll be watching is this Constitutional Amendment 13 just got sent to Newsom. Okay. I’m going to try to explain this very simply. It essentially says that if a ballot measure would increase the amount of voter approval, that it…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Scott Shafer:\u003c/strong> Too late!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Marisa Lagos:\u003c/strong> I already messed it up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Scott Shafer:\u003c/strong> You know, I want to come back to the referendum thing because one of the other things that the governor signed is going to change what voters see on the ballot. I think that is huge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Marisa Lagos:\u003c/strong> Okay, fine Scott.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Scott Shafer:\u003c/strong> \u003cem>[laughs]\u003c/em> I’m saving you here from going further down that hole.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead of seeing the yes or no on referendums, which can be confusing, and sometimes the proponents or opponents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Marisa Lagos:\u003c/strong> Because you’re saying yes to overturn a law right now, instead of yes to keeping the law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Scott Shafer:\u003c/strong> So it’s going to be either keep the law or overturn the law be much clearer. And I think that maybe we’ll see fewer referenda on the ballot because now it’s a little harder to trick voters, honestly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Marisa Lagos:\u003c/strong> All right. I’m just going to skip ACA 13 for now. We’ll talk about it a lot, we talked about it a few weeks ago. It’s going to be a big fight in 2024 over taxes and the threshold it takes to pass them. But a couple other labor bills before we move on. One sent to Newsom will allow lawmakers staff to organize, this is a big priority of former Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez, who’s now running labor outside of the building. Another would increase from 3 to 5 days the guaranteed sick leave that California workers get. This is in the COVID era.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Scott Shafer:\u003c/strong> I’m watching Dana shaking her head, nodding her head, reading the tea leaves here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Marisa Lagos:\u003c/strong> We’ll see. And then the other big one that is not yet to the governor’s desk could be voted on in the next few hours. Unemployment benefits for striking workers. This is something that really gets under the skin of the business community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Scott Shafer:\u003c/strong> Yeah, let’s have the employers pay for the workers on strike.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Marisa Lagos:\u003c/strong> Scott, run us down. There’s a few kind of, I would say more fun bills that are maybe tough calls for the governor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Scott Shafer:\u003c/strong> Yeah, Yeah. Okay. So this one’s been on his desk before and he turned thumbs down. But this is another Scott Weiner attempt to decriminalize magic mushrooms, psychedelic mushrooms, which are used in therapy for PTSD increasingly. There is evidence, actually, that it does work well for depression, PTSD, and some other things. Veterans groups are for it, not surprisingly, law enforcement not so excited about it. So that we’ll see what he does on that. Any indication? No, Dana’s like poker faced. Also, another pot related pot bill the Haney bill to allow he always says allows pot stores to sell muffins and tea which makes it sound so wholesome, which it is, but also have entertainment. Because those clubs are struggling, they’re having a hard time making money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dana Williamson:\u003c/strong> Cannabis cafes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Scott Shafer:\u003c/strong> Oh, look, she’s talking. Who will put her microphone on? Cannabis cafes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Marisa Lagos:\u003c/strong> Yeah. I mean, Prop 64, I think was very strict in how it allowed cannabis businesses to operate. This would loosen some of those, and Assemblyman Matt Haney says would really help them out. And then finally, Skittles. A ban on certain additives, including those that are what Skittles use to make those the rainbow of colors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Scott Shafer:\u003c/strong> All I’m saying is don’t touch my M&Ms. I don’t care what they do with the Skittles. Okay. We’re going to take a short break. And when we return, we’re going to be joined by Sacramento Mayor Darrell Steinberg, former lawmaker, of course, as well. And Dana Williamson, a Capitol veteran who is now Governor Gavin Newsom’s chief of staff. You’re listening to Political Breakdown from KQED Public Radio.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Scott Shafer:\u003c/strong> And welcome back to Political Breakdown. I’m Scott Shafer here with Marissa Largo’s. We’re up in Sacramento, where the legislature is wrapping up its session this week. And who better to talk about the highlights and perhaps the lowlights of the session but a pair of political pros. Sacramento mayor and former Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg and political strategist Dana Williamson, chief of staff to Governor Newsom. Welcome back, both of you to Political Breakdown, this a repeat visit for both of you, we’re happy to have you. And together.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Darrell Steinberg:\u003c/strong> Thrilled to be here with Dana and together.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Marisa Lagos:\u003c/strong> You guys have so many titles, jeez.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Scott Shafer:\u003c/strong> Yeah. Well, let’s talk about one of the big issues, of course, that you’re grappling with, the legislature is dealing with has to do with mental health. And it’s part of it as a reform of a bill that you, sir, mayor authored 20 some years ago that was on the ballot, a bill to tax millionaires for money for mental health, right?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Darrell Steinberg:\u003c/strong> Yes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Scott Shafer:\u003c/strong> Well before we go into that. And so so now what’s on the table now is to take some of that money and use it for housing for people who are suffering mental illness. Why the change? And then we’ll talk about the other $6 billion bond measure in a minute.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Darrell Steinberg:\u003c/strong> So back in 2004, I was still in the assembly, actually. We had this idea, this idea that we go to the voters to uphold the promise that Governor Reagan and the legislature made back in the 1960s when they shut the state mental hospitals to fund a decent system of community mental health care. And of course, for many decades that promise was unfulfilled. And so we authored and put before the voters Proposition 63, and the voters said yes, 53% of the vote, a tax on on millionaires. The money started at about $700 million. It’s now grown to over $4 billion annually. And it’s one of the largest sources of public mental health funding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The original intent was to ensure that the money went to the people who were the sickest of the sick. It was really a homeless mental health initiative. That was the motivation. Over the course of 20 years, it has done a lot of good. And in fact, I would say with the counties who are sort of a player in all this, because the money goes to them, they have spent the money well, in my opinion. The problem has been up until Gavin Newsom became governor, there was no executive leadership, truth be told, that said, the state needs to set priorities here. If we want the money to be spent on the homeless, mentally ill or people coming in and out of the criminal justice system with serious mental illnesses, then we have to say that. And so that’s the essence of the reform here. And I could not be more pleased, as the original author of the bill, that the governor, Dana, who added a significant piece to this as well, which I’m sure she will talk about, that they have taken the mantle that Susan Eggman and the legislature going forward and that this is going to pass. The voters will say yes again, I’m confident, and then we will have an improved Mental Behavioral Health Services Act in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Marisa Lagos:\u003c/strong> Well, as Scott mentioned, though, Dana, this is not just changing the way Prop 63 funds. This is also a $6.3 billion bond with a B. That’s a lot of money, to build treatment beds. Talk about why that’s needed and why hasn’t $4 billion a year been enough? I mean, what is what is the problem you guys are trying to solve here?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dana Williamson:\u003c/strong> Well, if you’re talking about specifically about the bond itself, one of the biggest problems and you can ask anyone, I mean, Darrell’s mayor now, right, and he sees this every day is there aren’t places for people to go. So you end up, folks end up in ERs, they end up in jail. They end up back on the streets. And so this really was that piece that we really needed. And it’s different from what the old state hospitals were, you know, the sort of really institutionalized settings. These are going to be community-based facilities. Some will be buildings that are rebuilt and refurbished, some will be stood up new, and they can take on lots of different forms depending on what a region or community needs. And again, going back to the promises of Ronald Reagan, that was the whole idea, right? We’re going to take people out of state facilities. They’re going to go into their communities, They’re going to get services, but they’re just isn’t capacity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Marisa Lagos:\u003c/strong> And the mental health problems gotten worse during this time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Scott Shafer:\u003c/strong> And it’s changed, too. The nature of it has changed a little bit. But I’m wondering, you know, you mentioned Ronald Reagan, but counties, you know, are using that money well, and some of that money if this passes, if the voters pass it, would get diverted to housing. And counties are concerned that, you know, hundreds of millions of dollars that they would have for services are going to go away. How do you respond to that concern?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Darrell Steinberg:\u003c/strong> Well, several ways. Number one, I go back to the original intent of the Act, which was to house people and to provide the comprehensive services for people living on the streets with serious mental illness. So, this gets back to the original intent. Secondly, the MHSA, as we call it, the reform and the bond is not in isolation. This is now the fifth or sixth year that the governor and the legislature have led on mental health, and they’ve provided a huge number of resources, four plus billion dollars for a youth mental health initiative, what’s called CalAIM, the Medicaid reform where now health care money can be used for a form of wraparound services. And so there’s more resources than ever before. And with this change, now is a catalyst to actually create a system that is coherent and that provides something for everyone depending on what their needs are. That’s the bed thing that Dana was talking about a moment ago. That’s the biggest thing at the local level. We don’t have places for people to go and some people need board and care, some people can live independently, some people need, you know, a more secure facility. Well, this bond together with the MHSA reform, is going to allow us to get a lot more of that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Marisa Lagos:\u003c/strong> Can I ask, before we get too much further into the weeds of this, like what you both are very passionate about, this is their personal experiences that have made you want to tackle this issue and take it on? I mean, we don’t get you in here, Dana as the chief of staff for every issue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dana Williamson:\u003c/strong> I mean, listen, I think working on this, either you you don’t talk to a single person that hasn’t been touched by mental health issues, whether they’re own personal ones, family members, in their work. So I think you could say it’s personal to most people. I think Darrell’s been very open about his daughter and his own experiences. I had a particularly tough experience with my husband that I learned a lot from. I mean, I was, you know, working for Jerry Brown at the time. And when the incident happened with him, I learned about all the holes in the system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Marisa Lagos\u003c/strong>: And you’re a well-resourced person, right?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dana Williamson\u003c/strong>: I mean, I could call literally anyone. Darrell will tell you, I was on the phone with Darrell every day. You know and once I step back from when it happened and could look more broadly and and go, okay, wait a minute, like this is crazy. People didn’t know who to call to get help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Scott Shafer:\u003c/strong> And even if they did, the help wasn’t necessarily there in some cases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dana Williamson:\u003c/strong> Right, and there’s a there’s another bill that’s in the legislature today, too, that Susan Eggman is also doing that that adds mental health to the conservatorship laws, which I know is controversial. But the difference is, is that right now, either only law enforcement or an E.R. can, you know, take someone in who’s really, really going to harm themselves. But people with a long history of mental health issues doesn’t qualify for that\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Scott Shafer:\u003c/strong> Even under the CARE Court legislation? Which we’ll get into in a minute.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dana Williamson:\u003c/strong> Well CARE Court is different. That’s a different setup. But this is more just the current laws on the books that are, what, 50 years old?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Darrell Steinberg:\u003c/strong> 1967.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dana Williamson:\u003c/strong> They’re old. So there’s that. But the other thing is I learned I mean, it was the beds. I mean, I was on the phone, you know, six hours in a row just trying to find space. So if that’s me and I can literally call anyone and —\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Marisa Lagos\u003c/strong>: And you have the money to pay for it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dana Williamson\u003c/strong>: And I had the money to pay for it. All I thought about after the fact was my God, like my neighbor that what do people do?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Scott Shafer:\u003c/strong> Mayor, I don’t know if you want to talk about your daughter, feel free to. But I’m also wondering, you are now the mayor and you were in the legislature passing bills and, you know, supporting or opposing things. And I’m wondering, you know, we asked Jerry Brown this question after he had been mayor of Oakland. How do you see what Sacramento does — when I say Sacramento, I mean the capitol — differently now that you’re mayor?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Darrell Steinberg:\u003c/strong> Well, first of all, you ask about my daughter. She’s doing great in life, which is a, you know, one of many examples that if we do the right things, that people can get better and live full and productive lives. The other thing personal to me, and I think it’s an important point, is that I introduced my first mental health bills before my family was ever affected by this. People think it’s the other way around, that I was motivated because of my own personal situation, it was the opposite. And it proves the point that this is about everybody, that everybody knows somebody, every family. And what’s happened over 20 years in a good way, not that the stigma is completely busted or over, but oh my God, no one would introduce a mental health bill in the legislature in 2000. And now it is the issue of our time, combined with gubernatorial leadership like we’ve never had before and all of a sudden there is the chance to fulfill that promise from the 1960s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To answer your question, Scott, I guess the difference is the lawmaking role is to make the law and to provide oversight, but then to move on to your next law. As a mayor, of course, you see the impact not just of the law itself, but on whether or not it is implemented in the way it was originally intended. And that gets back to the Mental Health Services Act, Proposition 63. We believed that we were providing funding for the counties to get out into the streets in these encampments and to provide that wraparound model that was the basis for the initiative. And while, again, the counties have spent the money well, that population has not got nearly enough focus. So the governor says and Senator Eggman says more money for housing for people who are unsheltered or at risk of losing their housing, more money for the wraparound service model that we know works. That’s the right direction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Marisa Lagos:\u003c/strong> But on the other hand, I mean, we’ve we’ve sort of spelled out that the mental illness crisis does go well beyond visible homelessness and people with very extreme problems. I’m just wondering, are we thinking enough about preventing people from getting to that point? Obviously, you guys have to walk and chew gum at the same time. But I think some critics would say this is only through the prism of homelessness, not through, you know, preventing younger kids from falling into that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dana Williamson:\u003c/strong> Actually a big component of the reforms, the original Prop 63 did include intervention for kids.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Darrell Steinberg:\u003c/strong> Twenty percent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dana Williamson:\u003c/strong> And that continues with this. Because you’re absolutely right. It’s like get ahead of it, talk about it. You know, make it so that, you know, folks recognize when someone’s struggling and what to do. And there’s resources for that in this as well. So it’s both. And I think to the mayor’s point, what we’re trying to create is a system and it’s not just this package, but it is CalAIM, it is all of the other components to this where all of those services are combined and utilized.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Scott Shafer:\u003c/strong> You know, disability rights advocates were very concerned this week when some language was stripped out that would have prevented using money from this for involuntary confinement. And their idea, the notion was it was a bait and switch, last minute, not enough discussion about it. Your response?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dana Williamson:\u003c/strong> Can I take this one first?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Darrell Steinberg:\u003c/strong> You take this one first. Yes of course.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dana Williamson:\u003c/strong> Listen, we talked to a lot of counties, a lot of advocates, a lot of folks out there, I mean, that had lots of opinions and really based on their city or county or region and it’s different everywhere. But we got a lot of feedback about allowing locked beds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And I will say this: my husband would be dead right now if that was not available. So this isn’t about, you know, confining people forever. But sometimes in order for folks to get that immediate treatment, they’ve got to be in a secure facility. If it had been unsecure in my case, he would have run and been gone. So I think you’ve got to kind of take it in perspective.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Darrell Steinberg:\u003c/strong> First of all, the Mental Health Services Act, we legislatively amended the law when I was in the legislature to allow the money to be used for services regardless of someone’s legal status. So it shouldn’t matter. I mean, somebody needs the services, they need the services. MHSA never paid for the custody part of it or the law enforcement part of it and it still won’t.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s what I can assure people: that the coin of the realm will always be voluntary services, because that’s what works best over time. And yet it is a continuum. And so there are people who, you know, often because of drugs, by the way, not just mental illness that are so sick that they’re unable to care for themselves. They are a danger to themselves. And so it is appropriate to use those tools. But so long as the coin of the realm continues to be early intervention and voluntary services with involuntary as a last resort, I think that’s the way the system should be, because in the end, nobody should be living on the streets of California, period. And if we start from that perspective, then you do whatever it takes on either side to make sure they’re not on the street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Marisa Lagos:\u003c/strong> You brought up substance abuse. And I think that that is a question probably people in the public might have, which is like, what is the interplay here? Because so much of what we see on the streets can be a combination of these two issues. How does that kind of part of this play into it, given the fentanyl crisis, given what’s happening every day?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dana Williamson:\u003c/strong> Yeah, I mean, I think, you know, I think “continuum” was the right word here because you have folks that start off and have mental health issues who decide to use drugs and then the substance abuse exacerbates that. You have folks who use drugs that cause mental illness. I mean, it runs with this broad spectrum. Some people are on the streets, but people are doing that in their, you know, in their own lives, too. And they go to the E.R., a family member takes them to the E.R. and there’s ultimately probably three days in the E.R. is not going to be enough. So looking for some other place for folks to get treatment is super important to notice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Scott Shafer:\u003c/strong> If you’re just joining us, you’re listening to the Political Breakdown from KQED. I’m Scott Shafer here with Marisa Lagos. We’re up in Sacramento, where the legislature is making its final push on legislation this year. I should say, we’re taping this in the afternoon, so things may happen between now and midnight. But we’re talking with Governor Newsom’s chief of staff, Dana Williamson, and Sacramento Mayor Darrell Steinberg. This is a fund raising period for KQED Public Radio. For more information, go to KQED.org\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I want to ask about care courts, which is more than a little bit related to all of this. It was also Susan Eggman was one of the authors of a bill that the governor signed, it passed with huge bipartisan support, will allow more people to sort of steer folks who have addiction and mental illness and living on the streets into treatment. And I’m just wondering, you know, you said a moment ago there aren’t enough beds. And that’s the big concern that counties like San Francisco, which are going to go first, like in October, have. What assurances do you have for these counties that there will be enough beds for these things?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Marisa Lagos:\u003c/strong> Perhaps a $6 billion bond?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Scott Shafer:\u003c/strong> But that takes a while and the voters have to approve it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dana Williamson:\u003c/strong> But I will say, I mean, some of these cities they have, they can calibrate in a CARE Court situation, right? You take CARE Court and you’re — okay, this person is going to get treatment and they can go to here. Where the totality of the problem is so much bigger that that’s where the bond comes in and creates this much broader ability to have rooms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Scott Shafer:\u003c/strong> So you think there will be enough beds coming October for these counties that are going first?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dana Williamson:\u003c/strong> Yeah, I think so. But Darrell you were a big supporter of this.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Darrell Steinberg:\u003c/strong> I’m a big supporter of CARE Court. Look one of the things we know from history is that the collaborative court model works. That where counties have, and most counties do have mental health courts or substance abuse courts, with a tough and compassionate judge, that this can be a pathway for somebody to get the help and treatment that they would not otherwise get. And so CARE Court to me is just an extension of that. The challenge with collaborative courts has been there’s not enough of them. And so now the administration, the Newsom administration and the legislature said we’re going to invest in more pathways for treatment for people. And CARE Court is one way. It’s a tool, but an important tool.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You know, I don’t say I’ve changed on this because I’ve always believed that voluntary services are the way to go. But really, when when you when you look at it from a big picture and you ask yourself, what is it going to take to make sure that people are not freezing to death and are being subject to abuse of all kinds out on the streets, the impacts on our communities. Then you say whatever tools it takes and CARE Court, I think is going to be an important and I hope effective tool.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Scott Shafer:\u003c/strong> Although to be clear, you’re hoping for the black robe effect, right? You can’t really if people say, after all this, I don’t want to do it, you can’t really force them, right?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dana Williamson:\u003c/strong> No.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Darrell Steinberg:\u003c/strong> No. But you can you can push.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Marisa Lagos:\u003c/strong> Speaking of pushing, this is going to be on the ballot. You do need to convince voters to pass both of these measures. What do you see as the biggest political hurdles, especially given kind of what you’ve already come through, pushing it through the legislature?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dana Williamson:\u003c/strong> You know, I’ve actually seen polling on these issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Marisa Lagos:\u003c/strong> No \u003cem>[laughs]\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dana Williamson:\u003c/strong> I know you’re totally shocked. And the truth is, it’s unbelievable how across parties, across every single demographic, folks want something done. A lot of things going into this that I thought might be politically hard, weren’t. I think folks are just ready for change. And again, more people are touched by it. More people are talking about it. There are more people on the streets. So it’s just present in everybody’s lives now. So I you know, it should tell you something that we’re not afraid to put this on a March ballot in a competitive presidential primary for the Republican side. And still think it’s going to be okay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Darrell Steinberg:\u003c/strong> It’s not a new tax. It’s simply updating what is already on the books.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dana Williamson:\u003c/strong> It’s reform and beds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Scott Shafer:\u003c/strong> Quick question, we’re getting to the end, but how are you going to evaluate this? I mean, you know, the bond measure, let’s say it passes, it takes a long time. You got to deal with NIMBYs and, you know, all other kinds of obstacles. I know it’s been streamlined—\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dana Williamson:\u003c/strong> There’s some streamlining.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Scott Shafer:\u003c/strong> But it’s going to take a while in the best of circumstances.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dana Williamson:\u003c/strong> Well, on the reform side, there’s some new accountability measures built in with that about where the money goes and how it’s spent and, you know, audits and all the things. So I do think there’s lots of mechanisms on the reform side. On the bond side, yes, it’s going to take time to do it. We are actually currently, you know, hoping the voters want to support this, of course, looking at locations and, you know, what it would take to build or what it would take to refurbish. So we’re doing all that work now, but we’re hopeful if this passes and the money becomes available, that we can get started quickly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Darrell Steinberg:\u003c/strong> One of the less high profile parts of the MHC modernization is the requirement that the state and the counties work together on specific outcome measures. And over time, those outcome measures need to drive any future legislation, right? What the people want. People don’t expect a cure. They just want it to be better.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dana Williamson:\u003c/strong> And they want action. I think that’s the biggest piece of this.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Scott Shafer:\u003c/strong> Little late breaking information here. The Senate has just given final approval to the bill allowing striking workers to be eligible for unemployment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dana Williamson:\u003c/strong> Here we go.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Scott Shafer:\u003c/strong> That hot potato is heading your way, Dana.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dana Williamson:\u003c/strong> Fantastic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Scott Shafer:\u003c/strong> So we’ll see. No doubt there’ll be some other things heading to the governor between now and midnight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Marisa Lagos:\u003c/strong> Before we wrap, so I take it the governor will be out campaigning for these?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dana Williamson:\u003c/strong> Oh, yeah. If he were here, he’d tell you this is his biggest priority.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Darrell Steinberg:\u003c/strong> And I’m joining him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Marisa Lagos:\u003c/strong> Yeah, you’re hitting the road, mayor?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Scott Shafer:\u003c/strong> Do you miss being out, like, statewide, doing stuff?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Darrell Steinberg:\u003c/strong> I still get around a little bit, but yes, I loved my job as a legislator. I love being mayor, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Scott Shafer:\u003c/strong> It’s a tough job, right?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Darrell Steinberg:\u003c/strong> Nothing like having the honor of making law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Scott Shafer:\u003c/strong> And being in Sacramento gives you a little distance from those constituents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dana Williamson:\u003c/strong> The mayor and I are coming full circle because I was working for Jerry Brown when he was pro-tem. So, yeah, just a long history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Marisa Lagos:\u003c/strong> Musical chairs, musical chairs. Well thank you, guys so much for being here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Scott Shafer:\u003c/strong> Yeah, thank you both. We know you don’t do these all the time, and to have you both in studio is great.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dana Williamson:\u003c/strong> Happy to do it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Darrell Steinberg:\u003c/strong> Thank you.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Scott Shafer:\u003c/strong> Dana Williamson, chief of staff to Governor Newsom and Darrell Steinberg, you have a lot of titles, mayor is the current one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Darrell Steinberg:\u003c/strong> Just Darrell.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Scott Shafer:\u003c/strong> Just Darrell. All right, that’ll do it for this edition of Political Breakdown, a production of KQED Public Radio.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Marisa Lagos:\u003c/strong> Our engineer today is Christopher Beale, our producers is Guy Marzorati. I’m Marisa Lagos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Scott Shafer:\u003c/strong> And I’m Scott Shafer. Thanks for listening everybody and we’ll see you next time.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11961241/inside-californias-landmark-mental-health-reforms","authors":["255","3239"],"programs":["news_33544"],"categories":["news_8","news_33520"],"tags":["news_596","news_22235"],"featImg":"news_11961270","label":"news_33544"},"news_11955844":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11955844","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11955844","score":null,"sort":[1689628193000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"newsom-mental-health-plan-strips-700-million-in-services","title":"Newsom’s Mental Health Plan Could Strip Over $700 Million in Services","publishDate":1689628193,"format":"standard","headTitle":"Newsom’s Mental Health Plan Could Strip Over $700 Million in Services | KQED","labelTerm":{},"content":"\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11954314/3-big-takeaways-from-californias-311-billion-budget-deal\">major proposal from Gov. Gavin Newsom\u003c/a> to overhaul the state’s behavioral and mental health system is likely to take nearly $720 million away from services provided by county governments annually, according to a \u003ca href=\"https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4782\">new analysis\u003c/a> from the Legislative Analyst’s Office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although that money would be reallocated within the system, in part to \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/health/mental-health/2023/06/mental-health-funding-2/\">house homeless individuals with severe mental illness\u003c/a> and addiction disorders, the report authors note that Newsom and key legislators supporting the proposal have neither provided a complete justification for the changes nor have they published an analysis on how the changes may “negatively impact current services.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Consequently, as the Legislature considers the proposal, we recommend asking the administration certain questions to assess whether the proposal is warranted,” the report states.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom wants the Legislature to put his proposal before voters next year in tandem with a $4.68 billion bond measure to add psychiatric treatment beds. It would change how the state allocates money under the Mental Health Services Act, which levies a 1% tax on income above $1 million to fund behavioral health services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Homelessness has become one of the most \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/housing/homelessness/2023/04/california-homeless-spending-audit/\">high-profile challenges plaguing California\u003c/a>, increasing 32% in the past four years. Newsom, who promised to reduce homelessness, announced his intent during his \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2023/03/gavin-newsom-legacy-tour/\">State of the State tour\u003c/a> to divert nearly one-third of the state’s Mental Health Services Act money to help address homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since that time, \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/health/2023/04/mental-health-funding/\">local behavioral health providers and county officials\u003c/a> have criticized the proposal because of its potential to cut services and pit mental health programs against homeless services. The state has spent more than $20 billion on \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/housing/homelessness/2023/04/california-homeless-spending-audit/\">housing and homelessness since 2018\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supporters, meanwhile, say reprioritizing how the money is spent is long overdue in light of the growing needs of the state’s homeless population as well as the addition of new funding sources for mental health programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement, Newsom’s Deputy Communications Director Brandon Richards said “upsetting the status quo” was necessary in light of California’s changing health care needs.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Mental health needs among California homeless\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>A recent study from UC San Francisco found that two-thirds of \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/housing/2023/06/california-homeless-growth-report/\">homeless individuals experience mental health conditions\u003c/a>, although income loss is the driving force behind the state’s homelessness crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What’s more upsetting is watching people continue to suffer on the streets with ineffective interventions and inability to access much-needed treatment,” Richards said. “A California behavioral health system of care that is more focused, more transparent, and more accountable for results is what all Californians deserve and what this historic reform aims to achieve.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Roughly one-third of the county mental health infrastructure in the state is supported by the Mental Health Services Act, which was approved by voters in 2004 as a ballot initiative. Substantial changes to the act, like the ones Newsom proposed, require voter approval. Last year the tax generated about $3.8 billion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Brandon Richards, deputy communications director, Gov. Gavin Newsom\"]‘What’s more upsetting, is watching people continue to suffer on the streets with ineffective interventions and inability to access much-needed treatment.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Critics of Newsom’s proposal say the new analysis bolsters their argument that the changes will result in significant cuts to current programs, particularly those that \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/health/mental-health/2023/06/mental-health-funding-2/\">support children\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom’s office has so far “danced around” how much money would be cut, said Adrienne Shilton, a lobbyist for the California Alliance of Children and Family Services, which represents behavioral health providers in every county. The report is the first to quantify how the proposal would impact programs statewide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re seeing in real dollars what the impact would be,” Shilton said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The analysis estimates spending on current programs would be reduced from $1.34 billion to $621 million under the plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Housing money in Gavin Newsom’s plan\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The report identified several key changes and unanswered questions for the Legislature to consider in \u003ca href=\"https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Series/3\">Newsom’s plan\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Reduced flexibility: \u003c/strong>Counties would have less flexibility to determine how money is spent. Based on current expenditures, counties would be required to increase spending on housing by $493 million and on “full-service partnerships” by $121 million. “Full-service partnerships” include intensive wraparound services like case management, housing and employment support as well as clinical care.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Program cuts likely: \u003c/strong>To meet spending targets and caps, counties would likely need to reduce spending on current programs including “outpatient services, crisis response, prevention services, and outreach.”\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Less independent oversight: \u003c/strong>The proposed restructuring moves much of the program implementation and oversight authority to the Department of Health Care Services. The change “significantly limits” the independent oversight of the current Mental Health Services Oversight and Accountability Commission.[aside label='More on Mental Health Care' tag='mental-health']Sacramento Mayor Darrell Steinberg, who helped author the original law and has been a key supporter of the changes, said the law was always meant to prioritize “the plight of people living with serious mental illness on our streets.”\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>“It’s appropriate, in fact, it’s necessary to set priority status,” Steinberg said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Steinberg and Newsom’s office also contend that the state has invested heavily in the mental health safety net in other ways, including changes to the Medi-Cal system and a $4.4 billion one-time infusion into the \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/health/2022/03/california-children-mental-health-crisis/\">Children and Youth Behavioral Health Initiative\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s no longer a funding source that stands alone,” Steinberg said. “[Now], the opportunity is to weave all these pieces together so that everyone has access to care, and nobody is left out or left behind.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, advocates say it is premature to assume those investments have had a positive impact and that many have not yet been implemented. In an opposition letter, Lishaun Francis, senior director for behavioral health at Children Now said the state “has yet to demonstrate that it has delivered” on its promises and that the proposal deprioritizes children and youth.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Sacramento Mayor Darrell Steinberg\"]‘The opportunity is to weave all these pieces together so that everyone has access to care — and nobody is left out or left behind.’[/pullquote]Advocates also say those funding sources, particularly Medi-Cal, won’t reimburse for the non-clinical programs like classroom interventions and family resource centers that have historically been supported by the Mental Health Services Act. Medi-Cal is the state’s health insurance program for extremely low-income Californians.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Families need flexibility,” said Christine Stoner-Mertz, chief executive officer of the California Alliance of Child and Family Services. “We need community-designed practices, and we haven’t been successful in doing that with just Medi-Cal.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Gov. Gavin Newsom wants to direct more funds from California's millionaire’s tax toward housing. Some county-run mental health programs could lose out.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1689628275,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":24,"wordCount":1188},"headData":{"title":"Newsom’s Mental Health Plan Could Strip Over $700 Million in Services | KQED","description":"Gov. 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Gavin Newsom\u003c/a> to overhaul the state’s behavioral and mental health system is likely to take nearly $720 million away from services provided by county governments annually, according to a \u003ca href=\"https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4782\">new analysis\u003c/a> from the Legislative Analyst’s Office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although that money would be reallocated within the system, in part to \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/health/mental-health/2023/06/mental-health-funding-2/\">house homeless individuals with severe mental illness\u003c/a> and addiction disorders, the report authors note that Newsom and key legislators supporting the proposal have neither provided a complete justification for the changes nor have they published an analysis on how the changes may “negatively impact current services.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Consequently, as the Legislature considers the proposal, we recommend asking the administration certain questions to assess whether the proposal is warranted,” the report states.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom wants the Legislature to put his proposal before voters next year in tandem with a $4.68 billion bond measure to add psychiatric treatment beds. It would change how the state allocates money under the Mental Health Services Act, which levies a 1% tax on income above $1 million to fund behavioral health services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Homelessness has become one of the most \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/housing/homelessness/2023/04/california-homeless-spending-audit/\">high-profile challenges plaguing California\u003c/a>, increasing 32% in the past four years. Newsom, who promised to reduce homelessness, announced his intent during his \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2023/03/gavin-newsom-legacy-tour/\">State of the State tour\u003c/a> to divert nearly one-third of the state’s Mental Health Services Act money to help address homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since that time, \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/health/2023/04/mental-health-funding/\">local behavioral health providers and county officials\u003c/a> have criticized the proposal because of its potential to cut services and pit mental health programs against homeless services. The state has spent more than $20 billion on \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/housing/homelessness/2023/04/california-homeless-spending-audit/\">housing and homelessness since 2018\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supporters, meanwhile, say reprioritizing how the money is spent is long overdue in light of the growing needs of the state’s homeless population as well as the addition of new funding sources for mental health programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement, Newsom’s Deputy Communications Director Brandon Richards said “upsetting the status quo” was necessary in light of California’s changing health care needs.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Mental health needs among California homeless\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>A recent study from UC San Francisco found that two-thirds of \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/housing/2023/06/california-homeless-growth-report/\">homeless individuals experience mental health conditions\u003c/a>, although income loss is the driving force behind the state’s homelessness crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What’s more upsetting is watching people continue to suffer on the streets with ineffective interventions and inability to access much-needed treatment,” Richards said. “A California behavioral health system of care that is more focused, more transparent, and more accountable for results is what all Californians deserve and what this historic reform aims to achieve.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Roughly one-third of the county mental health infrastructure in the state is supported by the Mental Health Services Act, which was approved by voters in 2004 as a ballot initiative. Substantial changes to the act, like the ones Newsom proposed, require voter approval. Last year the tax generated about $3.8 billion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘What’s more upsetting, is watching people continue to suffer on the streets with ineffective interventions and inability to access much-needed treatment.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Brandon Richards, deputy communications director, Gov. Gavin Newsom","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Critics of Newsom’s proposal say the new analysis bolsters their argument that the changes will result in significant cuts to current programs, particularly those that \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/health/mental-health/2023/06/mental-health-funding-2/\">support children\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom’s office has so far “danced around” how much money would be cut, said Adrienne Shilton, a lobbyist for the California Alliance of Children and Family Services, which represents behavioral health providers in every county. The report is the first to quantify how the proposal would impact programs statewide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re seeing in real dollars what the impact would be,” Shilton said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The analysis estimates spending on current programs would be reduced from $1.34 billion to $621 million under the plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Housing money in Gavin Newsom’s plan\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The report identified several key changes and unanswered questions for the Legislature to consider in \u003ca href=\"https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Series/3\">Newsom’s plan\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Reduced flexibility: \u003c/strong>Counties would have less flexibility to determine how money is spent. Based on current expenditures, counties would be required to increase spending on housing by $493 million and on “full-service partnerships” by $121 million. “Full-service partnerships” include intensive wraparound services like case management, housing and employment support as well as clinical care.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Program cuts likely: \u003c/strong>To meet spending targets and caps, counties would likely need to reduce spending on current programs including “outpatient services, crisis response, prevention services, and outreach.”\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Less independent oversight: \u003c/strong>The proposed restructuring moves much of the program implementation and oversight authority to the Department of Health Care Services. The change “significantly limits” the independent oversight of the current Mental Health Services Oversight and Accountability Commission.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"label":"More on Mental Health Care ","tag":"mental-health"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Sacramento Mayor Darrell Steinberg, who helped author the original law and has been a key supporter of the changes, said the law was always meant to prioritize “the plight of people living with serious mental illness on our streets.”\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>“It’s appropriate, in fact, it’s necessary to set priority status,” Steinberg said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Steinberg and Newsom’s office also contend that the state has invested heavily in the mental health safety net in other ways, including changes to the Medi-Cal system and a $4.4 billion one-time infusion into the \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/health/2022/03/california-children-mental-health-crisis/\">Children and Youth Behavioral Health Initiative\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s no longer a funding source that stands alone,” Steinberg said. “[Now], the opportunity is to weave all these pieces together so that everyone has access to care, and nobody is left out or left behind.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, advocates say it is premature to assume those investments have had a positive impact and that many have not yet been implemented. In an opposition letter, Lishaun Francis, senior director for behavioral health at Children Now said the state “has yet to demonstrate that it has delivered” on its promises and that the proposal deprioritizes children and youth.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘The opportunity is to weave all these pieces together so that everyone has access to care — and nobody is left out or left behind.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Sacramento Mayor Darrell Steinberg","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Advocates also say those funding sources, particularly Medi-Cal, won’t reimburse for the non-clinical programs like classroom interventions and family resource centers that have historically been supported by the Mental Health Services Act. Medi-Cal is the state’s health insurance program for extremely low-income Californians.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Families need flexibility,” said Christine Stoner-Mertz, chief executive officer of the California Alliance of Child and Family Services. “We need community-designed practices, and we haven’t been successful in doing that with just Medi-Cal.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11955844/newsom-mental-health-plan-strips-700-million-in-services","authors":["byline_news_11955844"],"categories":["news_457","news_8"],"tags":["news_18538","news_596","news_16","news_30728","news_1775","news_2109","news_31651","news_31538","news_17983"],"affiliates":["news_18481"],"featImg":"news_11955872","label":"source_news_11955844"},"news_11952227":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11952227","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11952227","score":null,"sort":[1686011424000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"migrants-flown-to-california-were-intentionally-deceived","title":"Migrants Flown to California Were 'Intentionally Deceived'","publishDate":1686011424,"format":"standard","headTitle":"Migrants Flown to California Were ‘Intentionally Deceived’ | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>The state of Florida picked up \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11901984/for-asylum-seekers-finding-a-lawyer\">asylum seekers\u003c/a> on the Texas border Monday and took them by private jet to California’s capital city at taxpayer expense for the second time in four days, California officials said, prompting allegations that migrants were misled and catching shelters and aid workers by surprise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Florida Gov. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/tag/ron-desantis\">Ron DeSantis\u003c/a> and other state officials were mum, as they were initially last year when they flew 49 Venezuelan migrants to the upscale Massachusetts enclave of Martha’s Vineyard, luring them onto private jets from a shelter in San Antonio.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As California Attorney General Rob Bonta investigated the migrants’ transportation, local officials and faith-based groups sought to provide housing, food and other resources to the more than three dozen new arrivals. Many were from Colombia and Venezuela, and California had not been their intended destination.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California Gov. Gavin Newsom, meanwhile, lashed out at DeSantis as a “small, pathetic man” and suggested the state could pursue kidnapping charges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And as the migrants arrived in California, a Texas sheriff’s office announced Monday it has recommended criminal charges over the two flights to Martha’s Vineyard last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Johnny Garcia, spokesperson for the Bexar County Sheriff’s Office, said that at this time they are not naming suspects. It’s not clear whether the district attorney will pursue the charges, which include misdemeanor and felony counts of unlawful restraint, according to the sheriff’s office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11952238\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-11952238 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS48059_003_SanFrancisco_NewsomBontaPressConference_03242021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A middle-aged white man is looking off to his right shoulder in a room full of large paintings that hang on white walls. He wears a navy suit and tie with his salt and pepper hair slicked back.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1278\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS48059_003_SanFrancisco_NewsomBontaPressConference_03242021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS48059_003_SanFrancisco_NewsomBontaPressConference_03242021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS48059_003_SanFrancisco_NewsomBontaPressConference_03242021-qut-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS48059_003_SanFrancisco_NewsomBontaPressConference_03242021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS48059_003_SanFrancisco_NewsomBontaPressConference_03242021-qut-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gov. Gavin Newsom said in a statement that he met with the newly arrived migrants and officials were working to ensure that they are ‘treated with respect and dignity.’ \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Republican governors of Texas and Arizona have previously sent thousands of migrants on buses to New York, Chicago and Washington, D.C., but the rare charter flights by DeSantis mark an escalation in tactics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The two groups of people sent to Sacramento never went through Florida. Instead, they were approached in El Paso by people with Florida-linked paperwork, sent to New Mexico, then put on private flights to California’s capital, California officials and advocates said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DeSantis, who is seeking the Republican nomination to run for president, has been a fierce critic of federal immigration policy under President Joe Biden and has heavily publicized Florida’s role in past instances in which migrants were transported to Democratic-led states.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label='More Stories on Immigration' tag='immigration']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He has made the migrant relocation program one of his signature political priorities, using the state legislative process to direct millions of dollars to it and working with multiple contractors to carry out the flights. \u003ca class=\"paragraph-link\" href=\"https://apnews.com/article/texas-florida-immigration-massachusetts-san-antonio-e88805be61d7a1a7cf71581d1c20c19f\">Vertol Systems\u003c/a>, which was paid by Florida to fly migrants to Martha’s Vineyard, appears to be behind the flights to Sacramento, California officials said. The company didn’t respond to an email seeking comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Sacramento, the flight that arrived Monday carried about 20 migrants and followed the arrival Friday of 16 others from Colombia and Venezuela. The newest arrivals remained at the airport for a couple of hours and were fed before being transported to a “religious institution,” said Kim Nava, a Sacramento County spokesperson. Nava said she didn’t know the nationalities of the new arrivals or where they had intended to go in the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our county social workers are en route and are going to assess all those folks, make sure they have the services and support that they need,” Nava said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The first group of migrants was dropped off at the Roman Catholic Church diocese’s headquarters in Sacramento.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Speaking over the weekend about the first group to arrive in Sacramento, Eddie Carmona, campaign director at PICO California, a faith-based group that helps migrants, said U.S. immigration officials had already processed the young women and men and given them court dates for their asylum cases when “individuals representing a private contractor” approached them outside a migrant center in El Paso, Texas, and offered to help them get jobs and get them to their final destinations.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Kim Nava, Sacramento County spokesperson\"]‘Our county social workers are en route and are going to assess all those folks, make sure they have the services and support that they need.’[/pullquote]“They were lied to and intentionally deceived,” Carmona said, adding that the migrants had no idea where they were after being dropped off in Sacramento. He said they have court dates in cities throughout the country and that none of them meant to end up in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Asylum seekers can change the location of their court appearances, but many are reluctant to try and instead prefer sticking with a firm date, at least for their initial appearances. They figure it is a guarantee, even if horribly inconvenient.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The office of New Mexico Democratic Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham had no specifics as to why the immigrants were taken from Texas to New Mexico before being flown to California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Gov. Lujan Grisham stresses, yet again, the urgent need for comprehensive, thoughtful federal immigration reform, which is rooted in a humanitarian response that keeps border communities in mind,” the governor’s spokesperson, Caroline Sweeney, said Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, DeSantis directed Republican lawmakers in Florida to create a program in his office dedicated to migrant relocations. It specified that the state could transport migrants from locations anywhere in the country. The law was designed to get around questions about the legality of transporting people on a flight that originated in Texas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Florida’s alleged role in the arrival of the two groups in Sacramento is sure to escalate the political feud between DeSantis and Newsom, who have offered conflicting visions on immigration, abortion and a host of other issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Olga Rodriguez reported from San Francisco. Associated Press writers Anthony Izaguirre in Tallahassee, Fla., Paul J. Weber in Austin, Texas, Susan Montoya Bryan in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and Elliot Spagat in San Diego contributed.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Asylum seekers in El Paso, Texas, were approached by people with Florida-linked paperwork, sent to New Mexico, then flown to Sacramento.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1686010907,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":23,"wordCount":1019},"headData":{"title":"Migrants Flown to California Were 'Intentionally Deceived' | KQED","description":"Asylum seekers in El Paso, Texas, were approached by people with Florida-linked paperwork, sent to New Mexico, then flown to Sacramento.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Migrants Flown to California Were 'Intentionally Deceived'","datePublished":"2023-06-06T00:30:24.000Z","dateModified":"2023-06-06T00:21:47.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"nprByline":"\u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/\">Trân Nguyen and Olga R. Rodriguez\u003c/a>\u003cbr>The Associated Press","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","showOnAuthorArchivePages":"No","articleAge":"0","path":"/news/11952227/migrants-flown-to-california-were-intentionally-deceived","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>The state of Florida picked up \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11901984/for-asylum-seekers-finding-a-lawyer\">asylum seekers\u003c/a> on the Texas border Monday and took them by private jet to California’s capital city at taxpayer expense for the second time in four days, California officials said, prompting allegations that migrants were misled and catching shelters and aid workers by surprise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Florida Gov. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/tag/ron-desantis\">Ron DeSantis\u003c/a> and other state officials were mum, as they were initially last year when they flew 49 Venezuelan migrants to the upscale Massachusetts enclave of Martha’s Vineyard, luring them onto private jets from a shelter in San Antonio.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As California Attorney General Rob Bonta investigated the migrants’ transportation, local officials and faith-based groups sought to provide housing, food and other resources to the more than three dozen new arrivals. Many were from Colombia and Venezuela, and California had not been their intended destination.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California Gov. Gavin Newsom, meanwhile, lashed out at DeSantis as a “small, pathetic man” and suggested the state could pursue kidnapping charges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And as the migrants arrived in California, a Texas sheriff’s office announced Monday it has recommended criminal charges over the two flights to Martha’s Vineyard last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Johnny Garcia, spokesperson for the Bexar County Sheriff’s Office, said that at this time they are not naming suspects. It’s not clear whether the district attorney will pursue the charges, which include misdemeanor and felony counts of unlawful restraint, according to the sheriff’s office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11952238\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-11952238 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS48059_003_SanFrancisco_NewsomBontaPressConference_03242021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A middle-aged white man is looking off to his right shoulder in a room full of large paintings that hang on white walls. He wears a navy suit and tie with his salt and pepper hair slicked back.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1278\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS48059_003_SanFrancisco_NewsomBontaPressConference_03242021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS48059_003_SanFrancisco_NewsomBontaPressConference_03242021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS48059_003_SanFrancisco_NewsomBontaPressConference_03242021-qut-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS48059_003_SanFrancisco_NewsomBontaPressConference_03242021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS48059_003_SanFrancisco_NewsomBontaPressConference_03242021-qut-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gov. Gavin Newsom said in a statement that he met with the newly arrived migrants and officials were working to ensure that they are ‘treated with respect and dignity.’ \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Republican governors of Texas and Arizona have previously sent thousands of migrants on buses to New York, Chicago and Washington, D.C., but the rare charter flights by DeSantis mark an escalation in tactics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The two groups of people sent to Sacramento never went through Florida. Instead, they were approached in El Paso by people with Florida-linked paperwork, sent to New Mexico, then put on private flights to California’s capital, California officials and advocates said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DeSantis, who is seeking the Republican nomination to run for president, has been a fierce critic of federal immigration policy under President Joe Biden and has heavily publicized Florida’s role in past instances in which migrants were transported to Democratic-led states.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"label":"More Stories on Immigration ","tag":"immigration"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He has made the migrant relocation program one of his signature political priorities, using the state legislative process to direct millions of dollars to it and working with multiple contractors to carry out the flights. \u003ca class=\"paragraph-link\" href=\"https://apnews.com/article/texas-florida-immigration-massachusetts-san-antonio-e88805be61d7a1a7cf71581d1c20c19f\">Vertol Systems\u003c/a>, which was paid by Florida to fly migrants to Martha’s Vineyard, appears to be behind the flights to Sacramento, California officials said. The company didn’t respond to an email seeking comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Sacramento, the flight that arrived Monday carried about 20 migrants and followed the arrival Friday of 16 others from Colombia and Venezuela. The newest arrivals remained at the airport for a couple of hours and were fed before being transported to a “religious institution,” said Kim Nava, a Sacramento County spokesperson. Nava said she didn’t know the nationalities of the new arrivals or where they had intended to go in the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our county social workers are en route and are going to assess all those folks, make sure they have the services and support that they need,” Nava said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The first group of migrants was dropped off at the Roman Catholic Church diocese’s headquarters in Sacramento.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Speaking over the weekend about the first group to arrive in Sacramento, Eddie Carmona, campaign director at PICO California, a faith-based group that helps migrants, said U.S. immigration officials had already processed the young women and men and given them court dates for their asylum cases when “individuals representing a private contractor” approached them outside a migrant center in El Paso, Texas, and offered to help them get jobs and get them to their final destinations.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘Our county social workers are en route and are going to assess all those folks, make sure they have the services and support that they need.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Kim Nava, Sacramento County spokesperson","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“They were lied to and intentionally deceived,” Carmona said, adding that the migrants had no idea where they were after being dropped off in Sacramento. He said they have court dates in cities throughout the country and that none of them meant to end up in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Asylum seekers can change the location of their court appearances, but many are reluctant to try and instead prefer sticking with a firm date, at least for their initial appearances. They figure it is a guarantee, even if horribly inconvenient.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The office of New Mexico Democratic Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham had no specifics as to why the immigrants were taken from Texas to New Mexico before being flown to California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Gov. Lujan Grisham stresses, yet again, the urgent need for comprehensive, thoughtful federal immigration reform, which is rooted in a humanitarian response that keeps border communities in mind,” the governor’s spokesperson, Caroline Sweeney, said Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, DeSantis directed Republican lawmakers in Florida to create a program in his office dedicated to migrant relocations. It specified that the state could transport migrants from locations anywhere in the country. The law was designed to get around questions about the legality of transporting people on a flight that originated in Texas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Florida’s alleged role in the arrival of the two groups in Sacramento is sure to escalate the political feud between DeSantis and Newsom, who have offered conflicting visions on immigration, abortion and a host of other issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Olga Rodriguez reported from San Francisco. Associated Press writers Anthony Izaguirre in Tallahassee, Fla., Paul J. Weber in Austin, Texas, Susan Montoya Bryan in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and Elliot Spagat in San Diego contributed.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11952227/migrants-flown-to-california-were-intentionally-deceived","authors":["byline_news_11952227"],"categories":["news_1169","news_8"],"tags":["news_18538","news_596","news_22608","news_16","news_20202","news_23978","news_3674","news_24208","news_29586","news_95","news_21540"],"featImg":"news_11952234","label":"news"},"news_11810520":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11810520","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11810520","score":null,"sort":[1585949568000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"fema-will-help-get-15000-homeless-californians-into-hotels-newsom-says","title":"FEMA Will Help Get 15,000 Homeless Californians Into Hotels, Newsom Says","publishDate":1585949568,"format":"standard","headTitle":"KQED News","labelTerm":{},"content":"\u003cp>Gov. Gavin Newsom announced Friday that California has secured nearly 7,000 hotel and motel rooms to house sick and vulnerable homeless Californians during the coronavirus pandemic – and that the federal government will pay 75% of the cost.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ultimate goal, Newsom said in his daily press briefing, is to procure 15,000 rooms in counties across California, with options to extend the leases beyond this immediate crisis or even buy the buildings in some cases. So far, Newsom said, 869 homeless people are in hotel or motel rooms and 6,877 rooms have been identified and secured by the state and counties so far.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"What we want to do is relieve the stress in our shelter system so we can separate individuals and ultimately, again, relieve the impact on our medical care delivery system,\" Newsom said outside a Sacramento motel that is already housing sick and vulnerable homeless people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Sacramento Mayor Darrell Steinberg\"]'Homelessness was a crisis before COVID-19. It is a heightened crisis during this epidemic. And if we do our part now, it could be less of a crisis as we come out of this.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Framing the state's massive homeless problem as \"the crisis that pre-dated the current crisis in the state of California,\" Newsom acknowledged that this new effort – dubbed Project Roomkey – won't go as far as some homeless advocates demanded, because it limits who is eligible for the rooms that FEMA is helping pay for.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>FEMA's program, he said, focuses \"specifically on individual homeless populations that have been exposed to the virus, that specifically are deemed high risk – that would be our seniors out in the streets and sidewalks, in encampments and in tents and those that have tested positive for COVID-19.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That means healthy, younger unhoused people will not be able to get a room under this program in a state with an estimated 150,000 unhoused people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for advocates that say everyone should be housed?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They're right,\" Newsom said. \"We recognize 'good enough' never is. But I'll tell you, I don't know another state that's gotten close to 7,000 housing units just in a few weeks that has an agreement – none do – with FEMA to get reimbursed. And now a real process and protocol that's a bottom-up, county-by-county [effort] to begin to triage individuals and move them quickly and effectively and safely in an orderly way into hotel rooms. And I'm very proud of that.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom said the state will pay for the remaining 25% of hotel costs with $800 million in state funds already appropriated to tackle the homelessness crisis — including $150 million approved by lawmakers just a few weeks ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label='Related Coverage' tag='homelessness']Speaking after Newsom, Sacramento Mayor Darrell Steinberg noted that just weeks ago, the governor used his State of the State address to highlight the homeless problem and create a task force of officials to come up with recommendations. Steinberg chairs that task force.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Much of our work was centered on the idea that maybe it ought to be required to bring people indoors, not just be an option,\" Steinberg said, noting that there was a recognition that it could take years to do that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"And now, less than eight weeks after that State of the State address, the COVID crisis has given us together an unprecedented opportunity to move up that timeline in a most appropriate and aggressive way,\" he said. \"Homelessness was a crisis before COVID-19. It is a heightened crisis during this epidemic. And if we do our part now, it could be less of a crisis as we come out of this. That is the incredible opportunity we all have together during this most difficult time.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom said people living in hotels and motels will get other services as well, including cleaning, laundry, security and support staff. And he announced that celebrity Chef José Andrés’s nonprofit World Central Kitchen will provide three meals a day to some Project Roomkey hotels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"California has secured nearly 7,000 hotel rooms to house sick and vulnerable homeless people during the coronavirus pandemic, Gov. Gavin Newsom announced Friday. The federal government will pay 75% of the cost.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1585952554,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":16,"wordCount":700},"headData":{"title":"FEMA Will Help Get 15,000 Homeless Californians Into Hotels, Newsom Says | KQED","description":"California has secured nearly 7,000 hotel rooms to house sick and vulnerable homeless people during the coronavirus pandemic, Gov. 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Gavin Newsom announced Friday that California has secured nearly 7,000 hotel and motel rooms to house sick and vulnerable homeless Californians during the coronavirus pandemic – and that the federal government will pay 75% of the cost.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ultimate goal, Newsom said in his daily press briefing, is to procure 15,000 rooms in counties across California, with options to extend the leases beyond this immediate crisis or even buy the buildings in some cases. So far, Newsom said, 869 homeless people are in hotel or motel rooms and 6,877 rooms have been identified and secured by the state and counties so far.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"What we want to do is relieve the stress in our shelter system so we can separate individuals and ultimately, again, relieve the impact on our medical care delivery system,\" Newsom said outside a Sacramento motel that is already housing sick and vulnerable homeless people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"'Homelessness was a crisis before COVID-19. It is a heightened crisis during this epidemic. And if we do our part now, it could be less of a crisis as we come out of this.'","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Sacramento Mayor Darrell Steinberg","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Framing the state's massive homeless problem as \"the crisis that pre-dated the current crisis in the state of California,\" Newsom acknowledged that this new effort – dubbed Project Roomkey – won't go as far as some homeless advocates demanded, because it limits who is eligible for the rooms that FEMA is helping pay for.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>FEMA's program, he said, focuses \"specifically on individual homeless populations that have been exposed to the virus, that specifically are deemed high risk – that would be our seniors out in the streets and sidewalks, in encampments and in tents and those that have tested positive for COVID-19.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That means healthy, younger unhoused people will not be able to get a room under this program in a state with an estimated 150,000 unhoused people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for advocates that say everyone should be housed?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They're right,\" Newsom said. \"We recognize 'good enough' never is. But I'll tell you, I don't know another state that's gotten close to 7,000 housing units just in a few weeks that has an agreement – none do – with FEMA to get reimbursed. And now a real process and protocol that's a bottom-up, county-by-county [effort] to begin to triage individuals and move them quickly and effectively and safely in an orderly way into hotel rooms. And I'm very proud of that.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom said the state will pay for the remaining 25% of hotel costs with $800 million in state funds already appropriated to tackle the homelessness crisis — including $150 million approved by lawmakers just a few weeks ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"label":"Related Coverage ","tag":"homelessness"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Speaking after Newsom, Sacramento Mayor Darrell Steinberg noted that just weeks ago, the governor used his State of the State address to highlight the homeless problem and create a task force of officials to come up with recommendations. Steinberg chairs that task force.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Much of our work was centered on the idea that maybe it ought to be required to bring people indoors, not just be an option,\" Steinberg said, noting that there was a recognition that it could take years to do that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"And now, less than eight weeks after that State of the State address, the COVID crisis has given us together an unprecedented opportunity to move up that timeline in a most appropriate and aggressive way,\" he said. \"Homelessness was a crisis before COVID-19. It is a heightened crisis during this epidemic. And if we do our part now, it could be less of a crisis as we come out of this. That is the incredible opportunity we all have together during this most difficult time.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom said people living in hotels and motels will get other services as well, including cleaning, laundry, security and support staff. And he announced that celebrity Chef José Andrés’s nonprofit World Central Kitchen will provide three meals a day to some Project Roomkey hotels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11810520/fema-will-help-get-15000-homeless-californians-into-hotels-newsom-says","authors":["3239"],"categories":["news_457","news_6266","news_8","news_13"],"tags":["news_18538","news_27350","news_27504","news_596","news_16","news_4020"],"featImg":"news_11810535","label":"source_news_11810520"},"news_11795888":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11795888","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11795888","score":null,"sort":[1578963239000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"cities-should-act-on-homelessness-or-face-lawsuits-newsom-task-force-says","title":"Cities Should Act on Homelessness or Face Lawsuits, Newsom Task Force Says","publishDate":1578963239,"format":"standard","headTitle":"KQED News","labelTerm":{},"content":"\u003cp>Declaring that moral persuasion and economic incentives aren’t working to bring people in from the sidewalks, Gov. Gavin Newsom’s task force on homelessness called Monday for a “legally enforceable mandate” that would force municipalities and the state to house the growing number of homeless Californians.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The proposal, which came as Newsom kicked off a \u003ca href=\"https://sacramento.cbslocal.com/2020/01/12/gov-newsom-to-embark-on-week-long-homeless-tour-throughout-state/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">weeklong tour\u003c/a> of the state aimed at drawing attention to the \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/explainers/californias-homelessness-crisis-explained/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">homelessness crisis\u003c/a>, urged the Legislature to put a measure on the November ballot that would force California cities and counties to take steps to provide housing for the \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/explainers/californias-homelessness-crisis-explained/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">more than 150,000\u003c/a> homeless people in the state, or face legal action.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Such a measure would require a two-thirds vote of both legislative houses to be brought to voters. California law does not currently penalize the state or local governments for failing to reduce homeless populations, or to make housing sufficiently available.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation=\"Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf\"]'Housing is health. And to recognize that health dollars should appropriately be used to support housing is a very important part of our recommendations.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Los Angeles County Supervisor Mark Ridley-Thomas and Sacramento Mayor Darrell Steinberg, who co-chair the governor’s 13-member Council of Regional Homeless Advisors, have been \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/commentary/california-should-make-clear-there-is-a-right-to-housing-not-simply-shelter/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">advocating \u003c/a>some sort of enforceable “right” to sleep indoors since the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit \u003ca href=\"https://cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/opinions/2018/09/04/15-35845.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">struck down laws against homeless camping\u003c/a>. That ruling, which the \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/newsletter/why-boise-matters-kamala-harris-poll-numbers-endangered-species-and-rehabilitation-through-college/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">U.S. Supreme Court let stand\u003c/a> just last month, dramatically limited cities’ enforcement options, finding it to be cruel and unusual punishment to prosecute people for sleeping on the street if sufficient shelter isn’t available.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“California mandates free public education for all of its children and subsidized health insurance for its low-income residents. It requires its subdivisions to provide services to people with developmental disabilities and foster children,” the council wrote in a letter signed by both elected officials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Yet everything that state, county and city governments do to alleviate this crisis is voluntary. There is no mandate to ensure people can live indoors, no legal accountability for failing to do so, no enforceable housing production standard and no requirement to consolidate and coordinate funding streams across jurisdictions. The results speak for themselves.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The council’s recommendation stops short of Steinberg’s and Ridley-Thomas’ initial call for a “right to shelter,” which would not only have required cities to provide immediate beds, but also obligated people experiencing homelessness to come inside. But it adds momentum to the strategy of elevating litigation as a tool to accomplish what compassion and money haven’t been able to do.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom, visiting a homelessness program in Nevada County, \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/CAgovernor/videos/2568716870024650/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">said Monday\u003c/a> he “would lean in the direction” of speedily deploying a legal “obligation” to supply sufficient services and housing, adding that “a number of cities and counties” have volunteered to do demonstration projects over the next several months, “not the next few years.” (Ridley-Thomas later said he would propose such a pilot in L.A. County this week.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I broadly have been encouraging this debate about obligations,” the governor said, adding that “there’s a distinction between rights and obligations.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Without elaborating on that distinction, he seconded the task force’s point that many of the state’s responsibilities stem from legal mandates: “We do it in almost every other respect,” Newsom said. “On this issue we don’t, and I think that’s missing. The question is how do you do it ... . This is not black and white. This is tough stuff.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Municipalities made it clear they would need more clarification.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A legally enforceable mandate can only work with clarity of who’s obligated to do what and what new sustainable resources will fund it; that’s the ticket for clear expectations and accountability,” said Graham Knaus, executive director of the California State Association of Counties, in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Steinberg, meanwhile, called Monday’s proposal an improvement on the original “right to shelter” concept, saying a mandate by any name would still have the force of law. The point, the mayor said, is to give the courts a legal “last resort” to address pleas to supersede political gridlock, just as federal laws have in the past armed judges to combat other social crises. “It’s analogous to desegregation,” Steinberg said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://youtu.be/klnd87KdQSE\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The task force’s proposal would let a “designated public official” sue the government for not doing enough to offer emergency and permanent housing to the homeless. A judge could then intervene to force a city to approve an emergency shelter, for example, or redirect budget funds to homelessness services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The proposal, however, so far lacks specifics on how taxpayers would pay for such a mandate. The letter released by the task force, which includes local elected officials from large and small cities, states that “more state resources will undoubtedly be required” but includes no estimate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State and local governments in recent years have poured billions into combating homelessness, only to watch the problem worsen as ever-rising rents drive Californians to the streets faster than they can be re-housed. On Friday, for the second straight year, Newsom \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/economy/2020/01/gavin-newsom-budget-california-trump-housing-homelessness-schools-wildfire-surplus/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">proposed more than $1 billion in new state funds\u003c/a> to fight homelessness, calling it “the issue that defines our times” in California. But the state’s “point-in-time” homeless count jumped 17% between 2018 and last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Diego County Supervisor Nathan Fletcher, a task force member, said leverage is needed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We do the things we are required to do first ... then for everything else we try very hard,” Fletcher said. “Absent a legally enforceable obligation, I believe people will continue to try very hard.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But a legal mandate would arm jurisdictions to tackle “the underlying problem which is poverty,” rather than appease communities with shelter beds, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Putting the Onus on Government \u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Steinberg and Ridley-Thomas \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2019-08-07/newsom-sidesteps-right-to-shelter-plan-but-says-homeless-on-streets-cannot-persist\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">floated the idea\u003c/a> of a statewide “right to shelter” law last year. Spurred by decades-old litigation, \u003ca href=\"https://www.marketplace.org/2015/09/30/behind-new-yorks-right-shelter-policy/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">New York state\u003c/a> has a “right to shelter” policy that makes its state and local governments legally liable for having emergency shelter beds available for every unhoused person.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While many credit “right to shelter” for New York’s success in reducing the number of people sleeping on the streets, Newsom and advocates for the homeless have balked at the idea. Some advocates fear it would divert finite funding from \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/explainers/californias-homelessness-crisis-explained/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">permanent supportive housing\u003c/a>, which experts say is a more long-term, albeit expensive solution; others worry about cost and potential civil liberties violations that might arise from requiring a homeless person to accept shelter if it’s available.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"related coverage\" tag=\"homelessness\"]“The reason why right to shelter is a mistake is because it diverts resources from the solution, which is housing, not shelter,” said Sharon Rapport, California policy director for the Corporation for Supportive Housing and a member of the task force.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under the policy proposed by the task force, a local government would be required to develop a plan to house the vast majority of its homeless people within “an aggressive but reasonable period of time.” “Reasonable” is not defined in the letter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However Steinberg said that, in the case of Sacramento, “aggressive but reasonable” might mean a 1,500-person annual reduction in the city’s 5,500-plus homeless population, and housing the “the vast majority” within five years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Advocates on the homelessness issue said more specifics are needed, but applauded the task force’s recommendations as a philosophical pushback, at least, against efforts to criminalize living on the streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Any kind of policies that are promoting locking up people or warehousing people or punishing people for being homeless, the council is saying those policies have been very ineffective in the past,” Rapport said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city of Bakersfield recently proposed ramping up enforcement of low-level drug offenses to get people off the streets there, and advocates have expressed concern that the Trump administration’s threats to do something about homelessness in California may involve heavier use of law enforcement.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Homelessness Czar\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The task force also called for a single point-person on homelessness, a Newsom campaign promise that devolved in his first year into confusion over who, at any given point, was his “homelessness czar.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Various administration members, including Steinberg and Ridley-Thomas, Secretary of Health and Human Services Mark Ghaly and adviser Jason Elliott, have filled the role — so many that last week, Newsom headed off press questions by declaring tartly, “You want to know who’s the homeless czar? I’m the homeless czar in the state of California.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the issue of who is actually overseeing the state’s disparate homelessness initiatives — across multiple bureaucracies from prisons to health care — is still pressing, at least according to the homelessness task force. One of their key recommendations would “create a single point of authority of homelessness in state government,” suggesting a high-level official that reports directly to Newsom. Another calls for a comprehensive accounting of existing funding for homelessness, housing, mental health and substance abuse treatment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still other recommendations have already been incorporated into Newsom’s proposed homelessness budget, including a “flexible fund” that service providers can tap for uses from emergency rental assistance to building shelters. The task force also proposed revamping the state’s health insurance program to draw down more federal dollars for homelessness-related services, a key pillar of the strategy Newsom unveiled last week. Doing so would require a waiver from the federal government.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf, a member of the task force, said that Medi-Cal reform proposal is key to the their blueprint.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Housing is health,” she said. “And to recognize that health dollars should appropriately be used to support housing is a very important part of our recommendations.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More controversial proposals included an executive order expanding the state’s new rent-gouging law to cover more households and legislation exempting from environmental review any new housing project for people at risk of homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California has strict laws that make it difficult to detain mentally ill people against their will for a prolonged period of time. Families of homeless loved ones struggling with schizophrenia or other disorders often blame the \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/health/2018/08/california-homeless-mental-illness-conservatorship-law/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Lanterman-Petris-Short Act\u003c/a>, a late 1960s law intended to curb the overuse of asylums, for precluding necessary care. New York’s commitment laws are less stringent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Newsom talked vaguely of reforming the law last week, such reforms are conspicuously absent from the task force’s report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://calmatters.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">CalMatters.org\u003c/a> is a nonprofit, nonpartisan media venture explaining California policies and politics.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Recommendations by Gov. Gavin Newsom's task force on homelessness propose putting a legally enforceable 'mandate to end homelessness' on the November ballot, and call for increases in funding and the appointment of a homelessness czar.\r\n","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1581368335,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":40,"wordCount":1908},"headData":{"title":"Cities Should Act on Homelessness or Face Lawsuits, Newsom Task Force Says | KQED","description":"Recommendations by Gov. 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Gavin Newsom’s task force on homelessness called Monday for a “legally enforceable mandate” that would force municipalities and the state to house the growing number of homeless Californians.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The proposal, which came as Newsom kicked off a \u003ca href=\"https://sacramento.cbslocal.com/2020/01/12/gov-newsom-to-embark-on-week-long-homeless-tour-throughout-state/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">weeklong tour\u003c/a> of the state aimed at drawing attention to the \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/explainers/californias-homelessness-crisis-explained/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">homelessness crisis\u003c/a>, urged the Legislature to put a measure on the November ballot that would force California cities and counties to take steps to provide housing for the \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/explainers/californias-homelessness-crisis-explained/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">more than 150,000\u003c/a> homeless people in the state, or face legal action.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Such a measure would require a two-thirds vote of both legislative houses to be brought to voters. California law does not currently penalize the state or local governments for failing to reduce homeless populations, or to make housing sufficiently available.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"'Housing is health. And to recognize that health dollars should appropriately be used to support housing is a very important part of our recommendations.'","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Los Angeles County Supervisor Mark Ridley-Thomas and Sacramento Mayor Darrell Steinberg, who co-chair the governor’s 13-member Council of Regional Homeless Advisors, have been \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/commentary/california-should-make-clear-there-is-a-right-to-housing-not-simply-shelter/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">advocating \u003c/a>some sort of enforceable “right” to sleep indoors since the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit \u003ca href=\"https://cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/opinions/2018/09/04/15-35845.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">struck down laws against homeless camping\u003c/a>. That ruling, which the \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/newsletter/why-boise-matters-kamala-harris-poll-numbers-endangered-species-and-rehabilitation-through-college/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">U.S. Supreme Court let stand\u003c/a> just last month, dramatically limited cities’ enforcement options, finding it to be cruel and unusual punishment to prosecute people for sleeping on the street if sufficient shelter isn’t available.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“California mandates free public education for all of its children and subsidized health insurance for its low-income residents. It requires its subdivisions to provide services to people with developmental disabilities and foster children,” the council wrote in a letter signed by both elected officials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Yet everything that state, county and city governments do to alleviate this crisis is voluntary. There is no mandate to ensure people can live indoors, no legal accountability for failing to do so, no enforceable housing production standard and no requirement to consolidate and coordinate funding streams across jurisdictions. The results speak for themselves.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The council’s recommendation stops short of Steinberg’s and Ridley-Thomas’ initial call for a “right to shelter,” which would not only have required cities to provide immediate beds, but also obligated people experiencing homelessness to come inside. But it adds momentum to the strategy of elevating litigation as a tool to accomplish what compassion and money haven’t been able to do.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom, visiting a homelessness program in Nevada County, \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/CAgovernor/videos/2568716870024650/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">said Monday\u003c/a> he “would lean in the direction” of speedily deploying a legal “obligation” to supply sufficient services and housing, adding that “a number of cities and counties” have volunteered to do demonstration projects over the next several months, “not the next few years.” (Ridley-Thomas later said he would propose such a pilot in L.A. County this week.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I broadly have been encouraging this debate about obligations,” the governor said, adding that “there’s a distinction between rights and obligations.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Without elaborating on that distinction, he seconded the task force’s point that many of the state’s responsibilities stem from legal mandates: “We do it in almost every other respect,” Newsom said. “On this issue we don’t, and I think that’s missing. The question is how do you do it ... . This is not black and white. This is tough stuff.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Municipalities made it clear they would need more clarification.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A legally enforceable mandate can only work with clarity of who’s obligated to do what and what new sustainable resources will fund it; that’s the ticket for clear expectations and accountability,” said Graham Knaus, executive director of the California State Association of Counties, in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Steinberg, meanwhile, called Monday’s proposal an improvement on the original “right to shelter” concept, saying a mandate by any name would still have the force of law. The point, the mayor said, is to give the courts a legal “last resort” to address pleas to supersede political gridlock, just as federal laws have in the past armed judges to combat other social crises. “It’s analogous to desegregation,” Steinberg said.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/klnd87KdQSE'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/klnd87KdQSE'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>The task force’s proposal would let a “designated public official” sue the government for not doing enough to offer emergency and permanent housing to the homeless. A judge could then intervene to force a city to approve an emergency shelter, for example, or redirect budget funds to homelessness services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The proposal, however, so far lacks specifics on how taxpayers would pay for such a mandate. The letter released by the task force, which includes local elected officials from large and small cities, states that “more state resources will undoubtedly be required” but includes no estimate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State and local governments in recent years have poured billions into combating homelessness, only to watch the problem worsen as ever-rising rents drive Californians to the streets faster than they can be re-housed. On Friday, for the second straight year, Newsom \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/economy/2020/01/gavin-newsom-budget-california-trump-housing-homelessness-schools-wildfire-surplus/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">proposed more than $1 billion in new state funds\u003c/a> to fight homelessness, calling it “the issue that defines our times” in California. But the state’s “point-in-time” homeless count jumped 17% between 2018 and last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Diego County Supervisor Nathan Fletcher, a task force member, said leverage is needed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We do the things we are required to do first ... then for everything else we try very hard,” Fletcher said. “Absent a legally enforceable obligation, I believe people will continue to try very hard.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But a legal mandate would arm jurisdictions to tackle “the underlying problem which is poverty,” rather than appease communities with shelter beds, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Putting the Onus on Government \u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Steinberg and Ridley-Thomas \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2019-08-07/newsom-sidesteps-right-to-shelter-plan-but-says-homeless-on-streets-cannot-persist\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">floated the idea\u003c/a> of a statewide “right to shelter” law last year. Spurred by decades-old litigation, \u003ca href=\"https://www.marketplace.org/2015/09/30/behind-new-yorks-right-shelter-policy/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">New York state\u003c/a> has a “right to shelter” policy that makes its state and local governments legally liable for having emergency shelter beds available for every unhoused person.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While many credit “right to shelter” for New York’s success in reducing the number of people sleeping on the streets, Newsom and advocates for the homeless have balked at the idea. Some advocates fear it would divert finite funding from \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/explainers/californias-homelessness-crisis-explained/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">permanent supportive housing\u003c/a>, which experts say is a more long-term, albeit expensive solution; others worry about cost and potential civil liberties violations that might arise from requiring a homeless person to accept shelter if it’s available.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"label":"related coverage ","tag":"homelessness"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“The reason why right to shelter is a mistake is because it diverts resources from the solution, which is housing, not shelter,” said Sharon Rapport, California policy director for the Corporation for Supportive Housing and a member of the task force.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under the policy proposed by the task force, a local government would be required to develop a plan to house the vast majority of its homeless people within “an aggressive but reasonable period of time.” “Reasonable” is not defined in the letter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However Steinberg said that, in the case of Sacramento, “aggressive but reasonable” might mean a 1,500-person annual reduction in the city’s 5,500-plus homeless population, and housing the “the vast majority” within five years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Advocates on the homelessness issue said more specifics are needed, but applauded the task force’s recommendations as a philosophical pushback, at least, against efforts to criminalize living on the streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Any kind of policies that are promoting locking up people or warehousing people or punishing people for being homeless, the council is saying those policies have been very ineffective in the past,” Rapport said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city of Bakersfield recently proposed ramping up enforcement of low-level drug offenses to get people off the streets there, and advocates have expressed concern that the Trump administration’s threats to do something about homelessness in California may involve heavier use of law enforcement.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Homelessness Czar\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The task force also called for a single point-person on homelessness, a Newsom campaign promise that devolved in his first year into confusion over who, at any given point, was his “homelessness czar.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Various administration members, including Steinberg and Ridley-Thomas, Secretary of Health and Human Services Mark Ghaly and adviser Jason Elliott, have filled the role — so many that last week, Newsom headed off press questions by declaring tartly, “You want to know who’s the homeless czar? I’m the homeless czar in the state of California.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the issue of who is actually overseeing the state’s disparate homelessness initiatives — across multiple bureaucracies from prisons to health care — is still pressing, at least according to the homelessness task force. One of their key recommendations would “create a single point of authority of homelessness in state government,” suggesting a high-level official that reports directly to Newsom. Another calls for a comprehensive accounting of existing funding for homelessness, housing, mental health and substance abuse treatment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still other recommendations have already been incorporated into Newsom’s proposed homelessness budget, including a “flexible fund” that service providers can tap for uses from emergency rental assistance to building shelters. The task force also proposed revamping the state’s health insurance program to draw down more federal dollars for homelessness-related services, a key pillar of the strategy Newsom unveiled last week. Doing so would require a waiver from the federal government.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf, a member of the task force, said that Medi-Cal reform proposal is key to the their blueprint.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Housing is health,” she said. “And to recognize that health dollars should appropriately be used to support housing is a very important part of our recommendations.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More controversial proposals included an executive order expanding the state’s new rent-gouging law to cover more households and legislation exempting from environmental review any new housing project for people at risk of homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California has strict laws that make it difficult to detain mentally ill people against their will for a prolonged period of time. Families of homeless loved ones struggling with schizophrenia or other disorders often blame the \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/health/2018/08/california-homeless-mental-illness-conservatorship-law/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Lanterman-Petris-Short Act\u003c/a>, a late 1960s law intended to curb the overuse of asylums, for precluding necessary care. New York’s commitment laws are less stringent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Newsom talked vaguely of reforming the law last week, such reforms are conspicuously absent from the task force’s report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://calmatters.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">CalMatters.org\u003c/a> is a nonprofit, nonpartisan media venture explaining California policies and politics.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11795888/cities-should-act-on-homelessness-or-face-lawsuits-newsom-task-force-says","authors":["byline_news_11795888"],"categories":["news_6266","news_8"],"tags":["news_596","news_16","news_4020","news_1775"],"featImg":"news_11795890","label":"source_news_11795888"},"news_11769864":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11769864","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11769864","score":null,"sort":[1566841858000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"why-is-sacramento-trying-to-ban-7-men-from-entering-1-neighborhood","title":"Why is Sacramento Trying to Ban 7 Men From Entering 1 Neighborhood?","publishDate":1566841858,"format":"audio","headTitle":"The California Report | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":72,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>Homeless advocates are raising concerns over the public nuisance lawsuit filed against seven people by the city of Sacramento earlier this month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While KQED could not independently confirm if all the men named in the action are homeless, according to a sworn declaration from Sacramento Police Sergeant Greg Galliano all the \"named defendants are homeless or do not live in the Broadway Corridor,\" a prominent business district in the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the suit, the men are accused of crimes ranging from public lewdness to drug use to robbery to assault along the city's \u003ca href=\"https://www.greaterbroadwaydistrict.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Broadway Corridor\u003c/a>. The injunction would, among other things, prevent the men from being within the \"designated area\" at any time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11742013\"]\"This isn't really a solution. It's an expression of frustration, but it's not going to lead to any resolution or better outcomes for the community,\" said Natasha Minsker, a former ACLU lawyer and a volunteer at the Loaves and Fishes legal clinic in Sacramento. \"We shouldn't be in the business of banishing the neediest members of our community.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sacramento County also came under fire from homeless advocacy groups earlier this year for \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11742013/advocates-eye-legal-options-as-homeless-are-ticketed-along-river-in-sacramento\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ticketing homeless residents\u003c/a> living along the American River Parkway.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This legal action comes as the state's new homeless commission — headed by Sacramento Mayor Darrell Steinberg — is set to hold its first meeting on Sept. 6.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But according to Steinberg, who has a history of championing causes related to homelessness — including the 2004 \u003ca href=\"https://www.mhsoac.ca.gov/about-us/prop63mhsa/act\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mental Health Services Act\u003c/a> — the lawsuit isn't criminalizing people for being homeless.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11770140\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/Darrell-Steinberg-800x528.jpg\" alt=\"Sacramento Mayor Darrell Steinberg, pictured in 2018.\" width=\"800\" height=\"528\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11770140\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/Darrell-Steinberg-800x528.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/Darrell-Steinberg-160x106.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/Darrell-Steinberg-1020x674.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/Darrell-Steinberg-1200x793.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/Darrell-Steinberg.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sacramento Mayor Darrell Steinberg, pictured in 2018. \u003ccite>(JOSH EDELSON/AFP/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"Homelessness is not a crime, period, \" Steinberg emphasized. But he said, \"there is a distinction, I think, and a clear line between criminalizing homelessness — which is always inappropriate and wrong — and saying that people do not have the right to engage in anti-social and illegal behavior on a consistent basis and then just be able to go on without any type of sanction.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, advocates say even if legal recourse is an option to address that behavior it should be a last resort.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We will not succeed at addressing problematic behavior by throwing lawyers and police at the situation,\" said Minsker. \"If we have people engaging in behavior that's disruptive to the community, we recognize that there needs to be attention to that. And instead of paying for more lawyers and more police, we could be investing in social workers and treatment programs, rather than trying to banish them from one area of the city in particular.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement, Sacramento City Attorney Susana Alcala Wood said the city will seek \"injunctive relief\" whenever criminal activity in an area becomes excessive and other enforcement has not been successful. \"It’s not appropriate in every case, but it is in some. In this case, the residents and businesses along the Broadway Corridor have been subjected to ongoing criminal activity from a relatively small group of people. The suit looks to address that issue head-on and protect the safety of everyone who lives in or visits the area.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alcala Wood also said the city would only file this type of lawsuit with the support of the neighborhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for whether or not the defendants named in the suit were put in contact with social workers or treatment programs? Steinberg said he's looking into it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Our first obligation is to help people, including the people named in the lawsuit. And we should be assertive about it. At the same time, there should be standards of behavior and conduct on our streets and in our neighborhoods,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Read the full lawsuit:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[documentcloud url=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/6346285-Sac-Lawsuit.html\" responsive=true]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The suit accuses the men, who are thought to be homeless, of a range of crimes along the city's Broadway Corridor and would prevent them being within the area at any time. ","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1566857570,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":18,"wordCount":637},"headData":{"title":"Why is Sacramento Trying to Ban 7 Men From Entering 1 Neighborhood? | KQED","description":"The suit accuses the men, who are thought to be homeless, of a range of crimes along the city's Broadway Corridor and would prevent them being within the area at any time. ","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Why is Sacramento Trying to Ban 7 Men From Entering 1 Neighborhood?","datePublished":"2019-08-26T17:50:58.000Z","dateModified":"2019-08-26T22:12:50.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"disqusIdentifier":"11769864 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11769864","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2019/08/26/why-is-sacramento-trying-to-ban-7-men-from-entering-1-neighborhood/","disqusTitle":"Why is Sacramento Trying to Ban 7 Men From Entering 1 Neighborhood?","audioUrl":"https://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/tcr/2019/08/292314WileyHomelessPolicing.mp3","audioTrackLength":107,"path":"/news/11769864/why-is-sacramento-trying-to-ban-7-men-from-entering-1-neighborhood","audioDuration":107000,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Homeless advocates are raising concerns over the public nuisance lawsuit filed against seven people by the city of Sacramento earlier this month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While KQED could not independently confirm if all the men named in the action are homeless, according to a sworn declaration from Sacramento Police Sergeant Greg Galliano all the \"named defendants are homeless or do not live in the Broadway Corridor,\" a prominent business district in the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the suit, the men are accused of crimes ranging from public lewdness to drug use to robbery to assault along the city's \u003ca href=\"https://www.greaterbroadwaydistrict.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Broadway Corridor\u003c/a>. The injunction would, among other things, prevent the men from being within the \"designated area\" at any time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"news_11742013","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\"This isn't really a solution. It's an expression of frustration, but it's not going to lead to any resolution or better outcomes for the community,\" said Natasha Minsker, a former ACLU lawyer and a volunteer at the Loaves and Fishes legal clinic in Sacramento. \"We shouldn't be in the business of banishing the neediest members of our community.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sacramento County also came under fire from homeless advocacy groups earlier this year for \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11742013/advocates-eye-legal-options-as-homeless-are-ticketed-along-river-in-sacramento\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ticketing homeless residents\u003c/a> living along the American River Parkway.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This legal action comes as the state's new homeless commission — headed by Sacramento Mayor Darrell Steinberg — is set to hold its first meeting on Sept. 6.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But according to Steinberg, who has a history of championing causes related to homelessness — including the 2004 \u003ca href=\"https://www.mhsoac.ca.gov/about-us/prop63mhsa/act\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mental Health Services Act\u003c/a> — the lawsuit isn't criminalizing people for being homeless.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11770140\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/Darrell-Steinberg-800x528.jpg\" alt=\"Sacramento Mayor Darrell Steinberg, pictured in 2018.\" width=\"800\" height=\"528\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11770140\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/Darrell-Steinberg-800x528.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/Darrell-Steinberg-160x106.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/Darrell-Steinberg-1020x674.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/Darrell-Steinberg-1200x793.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/Darrell-Steinberg.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sacramento Mayor Darrell Steinberg, pictured in 2018. \u003ccite>(JOSH EDELSON/AFP/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"Homelessness is not a crime, period, \" Steinberg emphasized. But he said, \"there is a distinction, I think, and a clear line between criminalizing homelessness — which is always inappropriate and wrong — and saying that people do not have the right to engage in anti-social and illegal behavior on a consistent basis and then just be able to go on without any type of sanction.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, advocates say even if legal recourse is an option to address that behavior it should be a last resort.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We will not succeed at addressing problematic behavior by throwing lawyers and police at the situation,\" said Minsker. \"If we have people engaging in behavior that's disruptive to the community, we recognize that there needs to be attention to that. And instead of paying for more lawyers and more police, we could be investing in social workers and treatment programs, rather than trying to banish them from one area of the city in particular.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement, Sacramento City Attorney Susana Alcala Wood said the city will seek \"injunctive relief\" whenever criminal activity in an area becomes excessive and other enforcement has not been successful. \"It’s not appropriate in every case, but it is in some. In this case, the residents and businesses along the Broadway Corridor have been subjected to ongoing criminal activity from a relatively small group of people. The suit looks to address that issue head-on and protect the safety of everyone who lives in or visits the area.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alcala Wood also said the city would only file this type of lawsuit with the support of the neighborhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for whether or not the defendants named in the suit were put in contact with social workers or treatment programs? Steinberg said he's looking into it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Our first obligation is to help people, including the people named in the lawsuit. And we should be assertive about it. At the same time, there should be standards of behavior and conduct on our streets and in our neighborhoods,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Read the full lawsuit:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"documentcloud","attributes":{"named":{"url":"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/6346285-Sac-Lawsuit.html","responsive":"true","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11769864/why-is-sacramento-trying-to-ban-7-men-from-entering-1-neighborhood","authors":["11526"],"programs":["news_72"],"categories":["news_6266","news_6188","news_8"],"tags":["news_596","news_20305","news_4020","news_1775","news_95"],"featImg":"news_11769965","label":"news_72"},"news_11658221":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11658221","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11658221","score":null,"sort":[1522180828000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"california-attorney-general-to-oversee-investigation-into-fatal-police-shooting-of-stephon-clark","title":"California Attorney General to Oversee Investigation Into Fatal Police Shooting of Stephon Clark","publishDate":1522180828,"format":"audio","headTitle":"The California Report | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":72,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>SACRAMENTO — The California Attorney General's Office on Tuesday joined an investigation into the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11657350/video-shows-sacramento-police-shooting-unarmed-black-man-in-grandparents-backyard\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">fatal police shooting of an unarmed black man\u003c/a> in Sacramento.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While announcing the attorney general's involvement, city officials and community leaders called for calm as Sacramento prepares for events memorializing 22-year-old Stephon Clark, where emotions will be raw and large crowds are expected.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police Chief Daniel Hahn said he hopes the attorney general's decision will bring \"faith and transparency,\" as California's capital city reels from Clark's death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Due to the nature of this investigation, the extremely high emotions, anger and hurt in our city, I felt it was the best interest of our entire community, including the members of our police department, to ask the attorney general to be an independent part of this investigation,\" Hahn said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two Sacramento police officers responding to a report of someone breaking car windows fatally shot Clark in his grandmother's backyard March 18. Police say they thought Clark was holding a gun, but he was found with only a cellphone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Attorney General Xavier Becerra's office will provide oversight of the investigation and conduct a review of the police department's policies and use-of-force training. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11657350/video-shows-sacramento-police-shooting-unarmed-black-man-in-grandparents-backyard\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Body-camera footage\u003c/a> released by the department shows police firing 20 rounds at Clark.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QyLdm1pzujg\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The decision on whether to bring criminal charges against the officers involved remains with District Attorney Anne Marie Schubert, although Becerra said his office could also bring charges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Understand that this process will take time,\" Schubert said. \"Thorough and fair independent review demands that we do it right.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Clark's grandmother, Sequita Thompson, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11658057/family-members-civil-rights-leaders-call-for-justice-for-stephon-clark\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">called Monday for the police to change how they apply force\u003c/a> in such situations and to consider nonlethal options.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We fully expect that the attorney general's office will do a complete and thorough investigation that is fair and impartial — and that extends due process not just to those being investigated, but equally to the family of Stephon Clark,\" family attorney Benjamin Crump said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hahn said the two officers, whose names the department has not released, are facing death threats. He asked that protests remain peaceful as the investigation proceeds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It is rare for police officers to be charged following a shooting and rarer still for them to be convicted. Often it's because of the doctrine of reasonable fear: If prosecutors or jurors believe that officers have a reason to fear for their safety, they can use force up to and including lethal force.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11658227\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11658227\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/StephonClarkVigilCandles-800x525.jpg\" alt=\"Black Lives Matter protesters hold candles during a vigil and demonstration on March 23, 2018 in Sacramento following the fatal police shooting of Stephon Clark.\" width=\"800\" height=\"525\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/StephonClarkVigilCandles-800x525.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/StephonClarkVigilCandles-160x105.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/StephonClarkVigilCandles-1020x670.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/StephonClarkVigilCandles.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/StephonClarkVigilCandles-1180x775.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/StephonClarkVigilCandles-960x631.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/StephonClarkVigilCandles-240x158.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/StephonClarkVigilCandles-375x246.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/StephonClarkVigilCandles-520x342.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Black Lives Matter protesters hold candles during a vigil and demonstration on March 23, 2018, in Sacramento following the fatal police shooting of Stephon Clark. \u003ccite>(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>On different occasions, protesters have taken over downtown Sacramento and the South Sacramento neighborhood where Clark was killed. At one point, protesters \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11657508/demonstrators-protest-sacramento-police-fatal-shooting-of-unarmed-black-man\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">shut down the interstate during rush hour and blocked the entrance to a Sacramento Kings basketball game\u003c/a>. The protests have largely remained nonviolent although tensions have been high. In one case, several protesters smashed a car window, according to the Sacramento Bee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Black Lives Matter Sacramento is organizing more demonstrations Tuesday at the district attorney's office and at the city council meeting. The group says protesters are calling for Schubert to bring criminal charges against the officers who killed Clark.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The NAACP and the National Action Network said a two-hour funeral and burial for Clark is set to begin at 11 a.m. Thursday at St. Mary Cemetery & Funeral Center in Sacramento. The Rev. Al Sharpton, president of the National Action Network, is set to speak, along with other clergy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The NAACP said a wake is set from 2 p.m. to 7 p.m. Wednesday at Bayside of South Sacramento Church.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mayor Darrell Steinberg urged the city to set a positive national example.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The country is watching us,\" he said. \"Let us show how a city in pain together, with all of our partners, can in fact achieve a better way.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This post has been updated.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Sacramento’s police chief said he hopes the move will bring \"faith and transparency\" as the city reels from the police killing of unarmed 22-year-old black man.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1522201665,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":true,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":21,"wordCount":681},"headData":{"title":"California Attorney General to Oversee Investigation Into Fatal Police Shooting of Stephon Clark | KQED","description":"Sacramento’s police chief said he hopes the move will bring "faith and transparency" as the city reels from the police killing of unarmed 22-year-old black man.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"California Attorney General to Oversee Investigation Into Fatal Police Shooting of Stephon Clark","datePublished":"2018-03-27T20:00:28.000Z","dateModified":"2018-03-28T01:47:45.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"disqusIdentifier":"11658221 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11658221","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2018/03/27/california-attorney-general-to-oversee-investigation-into-fatal-police-shooting-of-stephon-clark/","disqusTitle":"California Attorney General to Oversee Investigation Into Fatal Police Shooting of Stephon Clark","audioUrl":"https://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/RDnews/2018/03/2wayOrrStephonClarkShooting.mp3","nprByline":"Sophia Bollag \u003cbr> Associated Press","path":"/news/11658221/california-attorney-general-to-oversee-investigation-into-fatal-police-shooting-of-stephon-clark","audioDuration":215000,"audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>SACRAMENTO — The California Attorney General's Office on Tuesday joined an investigation into the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11657350/video-shows-sacramento-police-shooting-unarmed-black-man-in-grandparents-backyard\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">fatal police shooting of an unarmed black man\u003c/a> in Sacramento.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While announcing the attorney general's involvement, city officials and community leaders called for calm as Sacramento prepares for events memorializing 22-year-old Stephon Clark, where emotions will be raw and large crowds are expected.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police Chief Daniel Hahn said he hopes the attorney general's decision will bring \"faith and transparency,\" as California's capital city reels from Clark's death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Due to the nature of this investigation, the extremely high emotions, anger and hurt in our city, I felt it was the best interest of our entire community, including the members of our police department, to ask the attorney general to be an independent part of this investigation,\" Hahn said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two Sacramento police officers responding to a report of someone breaking car windows fatally shot Clark in his grandmother's backyard March 18. Police say they thought Clark was holding a gun, but he was found with only a cellphone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Attorney General Xavier Becerra's office will provide oversight of the investigation and conduct a review of the police department's policies and use-of-force training. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11657350/video-shows-sacramento-police-shooting-unarmed-black-man-in-grandparents-backyard\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Body-camera footage\u003c/a> released by the department shows police firing 20 rounds at Clark.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/QyLdm1pzujg'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/QyLdm1pzujg'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>The decision on whether to bring criminal charges against the officers involved remains with District Attorney Anne Marie Schubert, although Becerra said his office could also bring charges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Understand that this process will take time,\" Schubert said. \"Thorough and fair independent review demands that we do it right.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Clark's grandmother, Sequita Thompson, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11658057/family-members-civil-rights-leaders-call-for-justice-for-stephon-clark\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">called Monday for the police to change how they apply force\u003c/a> in such situations and to consider nonlethal options.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We fully expect that the attorney general's office will do a complete and thorough investigation that is fair and impartial — and that extends due process not just to those being investigated, but equally to the family of Stephon Clark,\" family attorney Benjamin Crump said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hahn said the two officers, whose names the department has not released, are facing death threats. He asked that protests remain peaceful as the investigation proceeds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It is rare for police officers to be charged following a shooting and rarer still for them to be convicted. Often it's because of the doctrine of reasonable fear: If prosecutors or jurors believe that officers have a reason to fear for their safety, they can use force up to and including lethal force.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11658227\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11658227\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/StephonClarkVigilCandles-800x525.jpg\" alt=\"Black Lives Matter protesters hold candles during a vigil and demonstration on March 23, 2018 in Sacramento following the fatal police shooting of Stephon Clark.\" width=\"800\" height=\"525\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/StephonClarkVigilCandles-800x525.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/StephonClarkVigilCandles-160x105.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/StephonClarkVigilCandles-1020x670.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/StephonClarkVigilCandles.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/StephonClarkVigilCandles-1180x775.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/StephonClarkVigilCandles-960x631.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/StephonClarkVigilCandles-240x158.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/StephonClarkVigilCandles-375x246.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/StephonClarkVigilCandles-520x342.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Black Lives Matter protesters hold candles during a vigil and demonstration on March 23, 2018, in Sacramento following the fatal police shooting of Stephon Clark. \u003ccite>(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>On different occasions, protesters have taken over downtown Sacramento and the South Sacramento neighborhood where Clark was killed. At one point, protesters \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11657508/demonstrators-protest-sacramento-police-fatal-shooting-of-unarmed-black-man\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">shut down the interstate during rush hour and blocked the entrance to a Sacramento Kings basketball game\u003c/a>. The protests have largely remained nonviolent although tensions have been high. In one case, several protesters smashed a car window, according to the Sacramento Bee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Black Lives Matter Sacramento is organizing more demonstrations Tuesday at the district attorney's office and at the city council meeting. The group says protesters are calling for Schubert to bring criminal charges against the officers who killed Clark.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The NAACP and the National Action Network said a two-hour funeral and burial for Clark is set to begin at 11 a.m. Thursday at St. Mary Cemetery & Funeral Center in Sacramento. The Rev. Al Sharpton, president of the National Action Network, is set to speak, along with other clergy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The NAACP said a wake is set from 2 p.m. to 7 p.m. Wednesday at Bayside of South Sacramento Church.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mayor Darrell Steinberg urged the city to set a positive national example.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The country is watching us,\" he said. \"Let us show how a city in pain together, with all of our partners, can in fact achieve a better way.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This post has been updated.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11658221/california-attorney-general-to-oversee-investigation-into-fatal-police-shooting-of-stephon-clark","authors":["byline_news_11658221"],"programs":["news_72"],"categories":["news_6188","news_8","news_13"],"tags":["news_596","news_116","news_4379","news_95","news_22814","news_17041","news_20378"],"featImg":"news_11658225","label":"news_72"},"stateofhealth_21992":{"type":"posts","id":"stateofhealth_21992","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"stateofhealth","id":"21992","score":null,"sort":[1412875689000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"steinberg-termed-out-leaves-health-care-legacy-in-california","title":"Darrell Steinberg, Termed Out, Leaves Health Care Legacy in California","publishDate":1412875689,"format":"aside","headTitle":"State of Health | KQED News","labelTerm":{"site":"stateofhealth"},"content":"\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_21998\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2014/10/Steinberg-e1412875491122.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-large wp-image-21998\" title=\"\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2014/10/Steinberg-640x426.jpg\" alt=\"Sen. Darrel Steinberg has served in the California legislature for 14 years. (Lorie Shelley, Senate Photographer)\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sen. Darrell Steinberg has served in the California legislature for 14 years, including six years as president pro tem. (Lorie Shelley, Senate Photographer)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>By David Gorn,\u003c/strong>\u003ca title=\"http://www.californiahealthline.org/insight/2014/steinberg-leaves-health-care-legacy-after-14-years-in-california-legislature\" href=\"http://www.californiahealthline.org/insight/2014/steinberg-leaves-health-care-legacy-after-14-years-in-california-legislature\" target=\"_blank\"> California Healthline\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It only \u003cem>seems\u003c/em> like Darrell Steinberg (D) has been in the California Legislature forever. Really, forever has just been 14 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">The senator had made mental health issues a priority.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>For health care advocates, Steinberg's presence has cast the longest shadow in the 21st century, helping advance health causes on multiple fronts -- including autism care, mental health services, foster care and homeless services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Steinberg was elected to the Assembly in 1998, the Senate in 2006 and became Senate President Pro Tempore in 2008. In that 16-year span, he took a two-year break from the Legislature, from 2004 to 2006. He built a reputation as a deal-maker, a horse trader, a broker of political compromises.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Along the way, he helped shape and muscle into existence some of the cornerstone mental health laws in the state. In 2004, Steinberg wrote and backed the voter-approved California Mental Health Services Act, passed in 2004 as Proposition 63.\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That law alone has raised $13.2 billion for mental health services in the past decade, and it is due to deliver an estimated $1.58 billion in fiscal year 2014-2015.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2000, he ushered in AB 2034, an expansion of an earlier pilot program he championed that integrated services to the homeless, cutting down on incarceration and hospitalization. He authored a bill in 2011 (SB 946) that required private health plans to cover autism therapy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Steinberg has said his aggressive pursuit of mental illness issues stemmed from his time on the Sacramento City Council, just before he decided to run for Assembly. In 1997, the City Council voted 6-2 to sue Loaves and Fishes, a private charity providing food to the homeless, for becoming a nuisance to businesses around it. Steinberg was one of those \"no\" votes, along with then-mayor Joe Serna (D).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Steve Cohn (D), a longtime City Council member now running for Assembly, was one of the people pushing the lawsuit. Steinberg said it became clear to him then that many of the homeless had mental illnesses, and that contributed to the local ruckus that prompted the lawsuit. Since then, Steinberg has made mental illness one of the legacy issues of his time in the Legislature.\u003cbr>\nSteinberg's daughter recently revealed she has been diagnosed with bipolar disorder and said she would like to follow her father's lead and be an advocate for mental health issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Steinberg has been termed out of office and has indicated that he plans to create a foundation \u003ca title=\"http://www.sacbee.com/2014/10/07/6768372/steinberg-to-launch-mental-health.html\" href=\"http://www.sacbee.com/2014/10/07/6768372/steinberg-to-launch-mental-health.html\" target=\"_blank\">focused on mental health policy \u003c/a>issues. Beyond that, he has not commented about what other steps he might take. The possibilities mentioned include everything from running for mayor of Sacramento to being appointed a state Supreme Court justice, given his law background.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California Healthline sat down with Steinberg this week to review his years in office, and get his sense of the health issues on the legislative horizon, who might carry on his fights and what health care challenges he foresees in the years ahead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And, of course, to ask about what deals he might still make, considering he's officially in office for another month or so.\u003cbr>\nCalifornia Healthline: Let's start with the issue most associated with you. Why are mental health issues so important to you? Why has that mattered so much to you?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong> Steinberg\u003c/strong>: It matters for many reasons. Tens of thousands of people suffer unnecessarily, because as much as we have done we still have so much more to do. It's important because mental health and mental illness is inextricably tied to most everything else we care about and spend public money on -- whether it's criminal justice, homelessness, child welfare, kids falling behind in school, family dysfunction -- and, in large part because of the continuing stigma, it's an issue that affects every community, knows no artificial boundaries. And everybody knows somebody. It does not get the attention or resources that it deserves and needs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I feel very strongly that the next great advance in society ought to be understanding the brain. How it functions, why people suffer from these illnesses and more importantly, what we can do to help people lead good lives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The flip side of disability is ability. People can live good lives, even with these biochemical illnesses -- if we do better.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong> California Healthline:\u003c/strong> When you look back over your 14 years in the Legislature at the accomplishments high on the pride list, the big one has to be the Mental Health Services Act.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong> Steinberg:\u003c/strong> It is, because of its magnitude. It's projected to generate $1.7 billion a year. Even though I wished those in charge of implementing had completed a comprehensive outcome-based evaluation. But thousands of people have benefited from it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong> California Healthline:\u003c/strong> So this is the biggest one…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong> Steinberg\u003c/strong>: But it's not the only one. In this field, I realized what you need to do is build and layer, build and layer. It isn't done. What we did in 2013 when the state budget finally turned around was significant -- maybe not as significant in terms of magnitude as the Mental Health Services Act, but it begins to answer the question: How do you help people access these services when they have hit rock bottom?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What we did in 2013 is establish funding for 2,000 crisis beds, if you figure they turn over about three times a month, that's 6,000 beds a month. We put together money for 600 triage workers, to help people navigate [the system] … and 25 mobile outreach teams. Really, what we really focused on there was the infrastructure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong> California Healthline:\u003c/strong> I want to get to the build-and-layer idea, but you brought up Loaves and Fishes, too. I assume you know Steve Cohn is running for Assembly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong> Steinberg:\u003c/strong> Yes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong> California Healthline:\u003c/strong> And you have a little history with him. Going back, you want to tell me the Loaves and Fishes story?\u003cbr>\nSteinberg: Well, sure. Steve's my friend, we've traveled together, we're members of the same synagogue, and I have respect for him, I mean real respect for him. I'm endorsing his opponent in the Assembly race, but I still have respect for Steve.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back then we were on the other side, and I suppose that was the formative battle for me, that motivated me to take on this issue.\u003cbr>\nI've told the story many times. The folks in the downtown area and the businesses, it was not completely an illegitimate issue in terms of the over-concentration of people needing help in one part of town. But I disagreed with the way the city and the city council majority went about trying to address it. They sued Loaves and Fishes. It was a \"Man Bites Dog\" story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lawsuit settled relatively quickly. But for me, that was around the time I began my campaign for state Assembly, and it was very clear to me that the underlying cause of the problem was untreated mental illness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I combined that with the advice I got from Phil Isenberg (D) (who was a former mayor of Sacramento and served in the state Assembly for 14 years before the term-limits law passed in 1990). He said to me, \"If you're going to succeed in the term-limited Legislature, you need to focus on a couple of things that really matter, that few others are really working on. Make it your passion and drive it.\" So I decided I was going to make this issue a priority.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong> California Healthline:\u003c/strong> Most people get involved in a particular health issue because someone they're close to has that health issue. It's interesting that wasn't the case with you.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong> Steinberg:\u003c/strong> Yes, my daughter's story is something that happened recently.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong> California Healthline:\u003c/strong> That's a little different. It does reinforce your point that everyone knows someone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong> Steinberg:\u003c/strong> Yes, that all came out after [my work in the Legislature].\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The homeless may be the most visible manifestation of untreated mental illness, but this is about every family. Every community. And people we know.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong> California Healthline:\u003c/strong> This idea of build and layer, build and layer. Of all the bills you've authored, some of them obviously are naming freeways after people, but of the health care ones, if you had to pick a top three, can you name three bills that made the biggest difference?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong> Steinberg:\u003c/strong> For me, it's definitely the Mental Health Services Act, when you add the investment from 2013, you add the recidivism reduction fund ... in 2013, as well, and we're getting close to $2 billion of investment next year in the public mental health system. To me, that represents untold numbers of lives that are saved or bettered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So that's one. Two is autism, SB 946. That now is expanded to Medi-Cal, now thousands of kids are going to get the early help they need to have better lives. That has been transforming.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Third is restoring the Denti-Cal program for 800,000 low-income Californians. That was a horrible cut we made in 2009.\u003cbr>\nAnd AB 34 and AB 2034 (the homeless services bills, first as a pilot project and then expanded), those are right there at the top.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Let me just say, the 2013 package, the recidivism reduction fund, autism and ABA (applied behavior analysis) therapy for kids across the board, the restoration of Denti-Cal, and I wasn't the only one, but I played a key role in negotiating the Affordable Care Act, making sure it was implemented in California in a way that was right and fair.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong> California Healthline:\u003c/strong> That's a pretty impressive list.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong> Steinberg:\u003c/strong> Well, thank you.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong> California Healthline:\u003c/strong> So that's 14 years of work. Now, looking ahead, at life in the Legislature without you, when you look at the governor's veto and signing messages, there's a theme -- he says he's weary of the cost of additional Medi-Cal benefits. What might that mean to California in the next few years?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong> Steinberg:\u003c/strong> California can be very proud of what it's done with health care reform and the Affordable Care Act. I do believe there is a next evolution of change, and that is to fully integrate care -- physical health care, mental health and behavioral health, substance abuse, to focus on chronic conditions, to make prevention and early intervention the priority.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So that the person being cared for is seen as a whole person and treated as a whole person, that's the next evolution and that by definition will bring down costs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong> California Healthline:\u003c/strong> But to do all of that, the cost may come down in the long run, but just to make changes in the first place -- or to get more people on Medi-Cal so fewer people show up in hospital emergency departments -- that takes money up front. That's what seems to be at issue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong> Steinberg:\u003c/strong> The governor is always going to emphasize, appropriately by the way, the cost issues. But in the end, look at the result. He signed ACA implementation [and Medi-Cal expansion] in California. He most often comes down on the side that represents progress here. Yeah, it may be push and pull. But I think he's going to be receptive to the idea of improving the effectiveness of these private and public systems that are too often balkanized and separate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong> California Healthline:\u003c/strong> Getting to your replacement [as Senate pro Tem], Kevin de León (D-Los Angeles) seems to have a different agenda from yours. When he's asked about health care issues, he'll talk about coverage for the undocumented. He seems to shy away from provider rate increases in Medi-Cal, for instance. Where do you see him in terms of health care?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong> Steinberg:\u003c/strong> He's a formidable advocate. I do believe any leader has to state their point of emphasis. If Sen. de Leon's point of emphasis is expanding coverage to undocumented immigrants, I'm confident he will get that done and have a great legacy as a result.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The thing about this job, it's a bit of a fire hose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You can pick your points of emphasis. But inevitably many of the decisions will land in your office, so he'll be dealing with every part of health care. If you don't have a point of emphasis, or some priorities you state clearly, you'll find yourself just trying to avoid the fire hose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong> California Healthline:\u003c/strong> It was interesting to hear [Assembly Speaker] Toni Atkins (D-San Diego) and de Leon on the stage recently. They're trying to agree on everything, but Atkins did not come down on the undocumented side, and de Leon did not come down on the provider rate increase side.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong> Steinberg:\u003c/strong> Maybe you see the makings of a partnership.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong> California Healthline:\u003c/strong> It's the beginning of a beautiful relationship.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Steinberg: It's often better, whether it's intentional or not, for the two leaders in the two Houses to have different but complementary priorities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong> California Healthline:\u003c/strong> You're such a positive person.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Steinberg: Yeah, you got more to negotiate for!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong> California Healthline:\u003c/strong> Who is going to take up the mental health and autism issues in your absence? How can you ensure the work you did continues?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong> Steinberg:\u003c/strong> I may be leaving Legislature, but I'm not leaving the community or the state or my commitment to these issues, so I'm going to stay involved myself. That's number one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And two, one of the things I was very excited about this year is to see someone like Jim Beall (D-San Jose) picking up the mantle. When he put together the mental health conference, it was always packed. There were always a lot of members ... There's a lot of interest out there, and it doesn't have to be one person.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong> California Healthline:\u003c/strong> You say you're staying. But no one knows what you're going to be doing. People have said you're going to become a Supreme Court judge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong> Steinberg:\u003c/strong> No, that isn't happening.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong> California Healthline:\u003c/strong> You're going to become mayor of Sacramento\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong> Steinberg:\u003c/strong> Well, maybe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong> California Healthline:\u003c/strong> So go ahead, what's next?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong> Steinberg:\u003c/strong> I'm not ready to make any announcements yet, but I'm going to step out for a while. I'm going to affiliate with a law firm, maybe get involved with an institute around mental health advocacy, and I'm going to do a combination of things.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Will that be for a while or will that be for longer, I don't know. I hope that I'm not done with my public service. But it would have to be the right thing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I don't know exactly what the future holds. I know, after 20 years, I feel good about what I've been able to work on, and some of the accomplishments. It's OK to step out, and look at it all from a different vantage point for a while.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's not like I don't have plans. I'm going to join a law firm and try to start my institute or foundation work, I'm not retiring I'm just changing my role. I've been termed out of office, it's not as if I have a choice. I am going to miss it terribly. How could I not?\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"He made mental health issues a priority, including writing Prop. 63. It generates $1.7 billion annually, benefitting thousands.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1412877891,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":67,"wordCount":2615},"headData":{"title":"Darrell Steinberg, Termed Out, Leaves Health Care Legacy in California | KQED","description":"He made mental health issues a priority, including writing Prop. 63. It generates $1.7 billion annually, benefitting thousands.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"Article","headline":"Darrell Steinberg, Termed Out, Leaves Health Care Legacy in California","datePublished":"2014-10-09T17:28:09.000Z","dateModified":"2014-10-09T18:04:51.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}},"disqusIdentifier":"21992 http://blogs.kqed.org/stateofhealth/?p=21992","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/2014/10/09/steinberg-termed-out-leaves-health-care-legacy-in-california/","disqusTitle":"Darrell Steinberg, Termed Out, Leaves Health Care Legacy in California","path":"/stateofhealth/21992/steinberg-termed-out-leaves-health-care-legacy-in-california","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_21998\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2014/10/Steinberg-e1412875491122.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-large wp-image-21998\" title=\"\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2014/10/Steinberg-640x426.jpg\" alt=\"Sen. Darrel Steinberg has served in the California legislature for 14 years. (Lorie Shelley, Senate Photographer)\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sen. Darrell Steinberg has served in the California legislature for 14 years, including six years as president pro tem. (Lorie Shelley, Senate Photographer)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>By David Gorn,\u003c/strong>\u003ca title=\"http://www.californiahealthline.org/insight/2014/steinberg-leaves-health-care-legacy-after-14-years-in-california-legislature\" href=\"http://www.californiahealthline.org/insight/2014/steinberg-leaves-health-care-legacy-after-14-years-in-california-legislature\" target=\"_blank\"> California Healthline\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It only \u003cem>seems\u003c/em> like Darrell Steinberg (D) has been in the California Legislature forever. Really, forever has just been 14 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">The senator had made mental health issues a priority.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>For health care advocates, Steinberg's presence has cast the longest shadow in the 21st century, helping advance health causes on multiple fronts -- including autism care, mental health services, foster care and homeless services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Steinberg was elected to the Assembly in 1998, the Senate in 2006 and became Senate President Pro Tempore in 2008. In that 16-year span, he took a two-year break from the Legislature, from 2004 to 2006. He built a reputation as a deal-maker, a horse trader, a broker of political compromises.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Along the way, he helped shape and muscle into existence some of the cornerstone mental health laws in the state. In 2004, Steinberg wrote and backed the voter-approved California Mental Health Services Act, passed in 2004 as Proposition 63.\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That law alone has raised $13.2 billion for mental health services in the past decade, and it is due to deliver an estimated $1.58 billion in fiscal year 2014-2015.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2000, he ushered in AB 2034, an expansion of an earlier pilot program he championed that integrated services to the homeless, cutting down on incarceration and hospitalization. He authored a bill in 2011 (SB 946) that required private health plans to cover autism therapy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Steinberg has said his aggressive pursuit of mental illness issues stemmed from his time on the Sacramento City Council, just before he decided to run for Assembly. In 1997, the City Council voted 6-2 to sue Loaves and Fishes, a private charity providing food to the homeless, for becoming a nuisance to businesses around it. Steinberg was one of those \"no\" votes, along with then-mayor Joe Serna (D).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Steve Cohn (D), a longtime City Council member now running for Assembly, was one of the people pushing the lawsuit. Steinberg said it became clear to him then that many of the homeless had mental illnesses, and that contributed to the local ruckus that prompted the lawsuit. Since then, Steinberg has made mental illness one of the legacy issues of his time in the Legislature.\u003cbr>\nSteinberg's daughter recently revealed she has been diagnosed with bipolar disorder and said she would like to follow her father's lead and be an advocate for mental health issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Steinberg has been termed out of office and has indicated that he plans to create a foundation \u003ca title=\"http://www.sacbee.com/2014/10/07/6768372/steinberg-to-launch-mental-health.html\" href=\"http://www.sacbee.com/2014/10/07/6768372/steinberg-to-launch-mental-health.html\" target=\"_blank\">focused on mental health policy \u003c/a>issues. Beyond that, he has not commented about what other steps he might take. The possibilities mentioned include everything from running for mayor of Sacramento to being appointed a state Supreme Court justice, given his law background.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California Healthline sat down with Steinberg this week to review his years in office, and get his sense of the health issues on the legislative horizon, who might carry on his fights and what health care challenges he foresees in the years ahead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And, of course, to ask about what deals he might still make, considering he's officially in office for another month or so.\u003cbr>\nCalifornia Healthline: Let's start with the issue most associated with you. Why are mental health issues so important to you? Why has that mattered so much to you?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong> Steinberg\u003c/strong>: It matters for many reasons. Tens of thousands of people suffer unnecessarily, because as much as we have done we still have so much more to do. It's important because mental health and mental illness is inextricably tied to most everything else we care about and spend public money on -- whether it's criminal justice, homelessness, child welfare, kids falling behind in school, family dysfunction -- and, in large part because of the continuing stigma, it's an issue that affects every community, knows no artificial boundaries. And everybody knows somebody. It does not get the attention or resources that it deserves and needs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I feel very strongly that the next great advance in society ought to be understanding the brain. How it functions, why people suffer from these illnesses and more importantly, what we can do to help people lead good lives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The flip side of disability is ability. People can live good lives, even with these biochemical illnesses -- if we do better.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong> California Healthline:\u003c/strong> When you look back over your 14 years in the Legislature at the accomplishments high on the pride list, the big one has to be the Mental Health Services Act.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong> Steinberg:\u003c/strong> It is, because of its magnitude. It's projected to generate $1.7 billion a year. Even though I wished those in charge of implementing had completed a comprehensive outcome-based evaluation. But thousands of people have benefited from it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong> California Healthline:\u003c/strong> So this is the biggest one…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong> Steinberg\u003c/strong>: But it's not the only one. In this field, I realized what you need to do is build and layer, build and layer. It isn't done. What we did in 2013 when the state budget finally turned around was significant -- maybe not as significant in terms of magnitude as the Mental Health Services Act, but it begins to answer the question: How do you help people access these services when they have hit rock bottom?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What we did in 2013 is establish funding for 2,000 crisis beds, if you figure they turn over about three times a month, that's 6,000 beds a month. We put together money for 600 triage workers, to help people navigate [the system] … and 25 mobile outreach teams. Really, what we really focused on there was the infrastructure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong> California Healthline:\u003c/strong> I want to get to the build-and-layer idea, but you brought up Loaves and Fishes, too. I assume you know Steve Cohn is running for Assembly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong> Steinberg:\u003c/strong> Yes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong> California Healthline:\u003c/strong> And you have a little history with him. Going back, you want to tell me the Loaves and Fishes story?\u003cbr>\nSteinberg: Well, sure. Steve's my friend, we've traveled together, we're members of the same synagogue, and I have respect for him, I mean real respect for him. I'm endorsing his opponent in the Assembly race, but I still have respect for Steve.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back then we were on the other side, and I suppose that was the formative battle for me, that motivated me to take on this issue.\u003cbr>\nI've told the story many times. The folks in the downtown area and the businesses, it was not completely an illegitimate issue in terms of the over-concentration of people needing help in one part of town. But I disagreed with the way the city and the city council majority went about trying to address it. They sued Loaves and Fishes. It was a \"Man Bites Dog\" story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lawsuit settled relatively quickly. But for me, that was around the time I began my campaign for state Assembly, and it was very clear to me that the underlying cause of the problem was untreated mental illness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I combined that with the advice I got from Phil Isenberg (D) (who was a former mayor of Sacramento and served in the state Assembly for 14 years before the term-limits law passed in 1990). He said to me, \"If you're going to succeed in the term-limited Legislature, you need to focus on a couple of things that really matter, that few others are really working on. Make it your passion and drive it.\" So I decided I was going to make this issue a priority.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong> California Healthline:\u003c/strong> Most people get involved in a particular health issue because someone they're close to has that health issue. It's interesting that wasn't the case with you.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong> Steinberg:\u003c/strong> Yes, my daughter's story is something that happened recently.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong> California Healthline:\u003c/strong> That's a little different. It does reinforce your point that everyone knows someone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong> Steinberg:\u003c/strong> Yes, that all came out after [my work in the Legislature].\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The homeless may be the most visible manifestation of untreated mental illness, but this is about every family. Every community. And people we know.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong> California Healthline:\u003c/strong> This idea of build and layer, build and layer. Of all the bills you've authored, some of them obviously are naming freeways after people, but of the health care ones, if you had to pick a top three, can you name three bills that made the biggest difference?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong> Steinberg:\u003c/strong> For me, it's definitely the Mental Health Services Act, when you add the investment from 2013, you add the recidivism reduction fund ... in 2013, as well, and we're getting close to $2 billion of investment next year in the public mental health system. To me, that represents untold numbers of lives that are saved or bettered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So that's one. Two is autism, SB 946. That now is expanded to Medi-Cal, now thousands of kids are going to get the early help they need to have better lives. That has been transforming.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Third is restoring the Denti-Cal program for 800,000 low-income Californians. That was a horrible cut we made in 2009.\u003cbr>\nAnd AB 34 and AB 2034 (the homeless services bills, first as a pilot project and then expanded), those are right there at the top.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Let me just say, the 2013 package, the recidivism reduction fund, autism and ABA (applied behavior analysis) therapy for kids across the board, the restoration of Denti-Cal, and I wasn't the only one, but I played a key role in negotiating the Affordable Care Act, making sure it was implemented in California in a way that was right and fair.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong> California Healthline:\u003c/strong> That's a pretty impressive list.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong> Steinberg:\u003c/strong> Well, thank you.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong> California Healthline:\u003c/strong> So that's 14 years of work. Now, looking ahead, at life in the Legislature without you, when you look at the governor's veto and signing messages, there's a theme -- he says he's weary of the cost of additional Medi-Cal benefits. What might that mean to California in the next few years?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong> Steinberg:\u003c/strong> California can be very proud of what it's done with health care reform and the Affordable Care Act. I do believe there is a next evolution of change, and that is to fully integrate care -- physical health care, mental health and behavioral health, substance abuse, to focus on chronic conditions, to make prevention and early intervention the priority.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So that the person being cared for is seen as a whole person and treated as a whole person, that's the next evolution and that by definition will bring down costs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong> California Healthline:\u003c/strong> But to do all of that, the cost may come down in the long run, but just to make changes in the first place -- or to get more people on Medi-Cal so fewer people show up in hospital emergency departments -- that takes money up front. That's what seems to be at issue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong> Steinberg:\u003c/strong> The governor is always going to emphasize, appropriately by the way, the cost issues. But in the end, look at the result. He signed ACA implementation [and Medi-Cal expansion] in California. He most often comes down on the side that represents progress here. Yeah, it may be push and pull. But I think he's going to be receptive to the idea of improving the effectiveness of these private and public systems that are too often balkanized and separate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong> California Healthline:\u003c/strong> Getting to your replacement [as Senate pro Tem], Kevin de León (D-Los Angeles) seems to have a different agenda from yours. When he's asked about health care issues, he'll talk about coverage for the undocumented. He seems to shy away from provider rate increases in Medi-Cal, for instance. Where do you see him in terms of health care?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong> Steinberg:\u003c/strong> He's a formidable advocate. I do believe any leader has to state their point of emphasis. If Sen. de Leon's point of emphasis is expanding coverage to undocumented immigrants, I'm confident he will get that done and have a great legacy as a result.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The thing about this job, it's a bit of a fire hose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You can pick your points of emphasis. But inevitably many of the decisions will land in your office, so he'll be dealing with every part of health care. If you don't have a point of emphasis, or some priorities you state clearly, you'll find yourself just trying to avoid the fire hose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong> California Healthline:\u003c/strong> It was interesting to hear [Assembly Speaker] Toni Atkins (D-San Diego) and de Leon on the stage recently. They're trying to agree on everything, but Atkins did not come down on the undocumented side, and de Leon did not come down on the provider rate increase side.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong> Steinberg:\u003c/strong> Maybe you see the makings of a partnership.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong> California Healthline:\u003c/strong> It's the beginning of a beautiful relationship.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Steinberg: It's often better, whether it's intentional or not, for the two leaders in the two Houses to have different but complementary priorities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong> California Healthline:\u003c/strong> You're such a positive person.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Steinberg: Yeah, you got more to negotiate for!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong> California Healthline:\u003c/strong> Who is going to take up the mental health and autism issues in your absence? 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