Sen. Tony Strickland, R-Huntington Beach,<\/a> the $20 million allocated to pretrial services isn\u2019t exactly new funding, but rather restores pretrial services funding previously cut from last year\u2019s budget.<\/p>\n\u201cTaking old probation dollars and calling them new funding is a budget gimmick,\u201d Strickland told The Center Square. \u201cProbation is where accountability happens, and it is essential to making Proposition 36 work. The budget provides only $50 million in new funding for Proposition 36, falling far short of what voters expect for its successful implementation.\u201d<\/p>\n
With so much support among California voters for Prop. 36, Strickland added, there should have been more funding.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey deserve a budget that delivers on that mandate and implements the law as voters intended, not political spin,” Strickland said.<\/p>\n
Despite the popular support for Prop. 36, Anti Police-Terror Project, an organization that aims to eliminate police brutality in communities of color, told The Center Square on Friday that the group believes the $50 million allocation is invested in the wrong place.<\/p>\n
\u201cFifty million dollars is not the question. The question is whether California is investing in the right response,\u201d Lance Wilson, policy and communications director of the Anti Police-Terror Project, told The Center Square in an email. \u201cProp. 36 doubles down on punishment, incarceration and criminalization instead of investing in the community-based mental health care, treatment, housing and support people actually need.\u201d<\/p>\n
The measure is not the answer to cutting down on substance abuse or the state\u2019s mental health crisis, Wilson added.<\/p>\n
\u201cPutting more resources into a fundamentally punitive system will not create safer communities,\u201d Wilson wrote. \u201cCalifornia should be investing those dollars in proven, community-based approaches that address the root causes of harm and keep people connected to care rather than cycling them through jails and courts.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(The Center Square) \u2013 Since Gov. Gavin Newsom signed California\u2019s 2026-27 state budget bill into law, some law…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":189432,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[147],"tags":[1062,544,1700,542,6041,10939,3807],"class_list":["post-189431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-gavin-newsom","tag-budget","tag-california","tag-crime","tag-gavin-newsom","tag-law-enforcement","tag-police","tag-public-safety"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@people\/117096862831528366","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189431\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/189432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}