The CARE Court program signed into law by Gov. Gavin Newsom will propel people with severe mental health disorders into a treatment program that includes medication and housing.
positioned it in a “unique” position where it made sense for it to be one of the inaugural areas to implement the CARE program, a first-of-its-kind program in the U.S.
“Orange County has experience and has done quite well with collaborative courts which are alternatives to the normal criminal justice system,” Umberg said.But Republicans and civil liberty groups have expressed concerns about the impact the CARE Court program could have. Assembly Republican Leader James Gallagher said the program was “better than nothing” but maintained it is a “new bureaucratic half-measure.”
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