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What we know about Newsom’s plan to compel care for homeless, mentally ill Californians

In this file photo, Gov. Gavin Newsom speaks after being sworn in as the 40th governor of California in front of the Capitol in Sacramento. Mayors of some of California’ s largest cities on Friday endorsed Newsom’ s proposal to push more people with severe mental health and addiction issues into court-ordered treatment, or at least a framework of the idea.

Mayors of some of California’s largest cities on Friday endorsed Gov. Gavin Newsom’s proposal to push more people with severe mental health and addiction issues into court-ordered treatment, or at least a framework of the idea.

So far, Newsom has unveiled general details of his plan, which he’s calling the Community Assistance, Recovery and Empowerment Court. The goal of CARE Court is to leverage judicial power to compel thousands of people struggling with serious addiction, mental and

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