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    Opposition mounts against Newsom's plan for court-ordered treatment of homeless people

    by Hannah Wiley, Los Angeles Times Apr 19, 2022 4 minutes
    California Governor Gavin Newsom speaks with media at a long-standing homeless encampment along Highway 80 on August 9, 2021, in Berkeley, California.

    SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Six weeks after California Gov. Gavin Newsom unveiled a far-reaching effort to push more people into court-ordered treatment for severe mental illness and addiction, homeless advocates are calling it legally misguided and immoral as the proposal's first public hearing at the state Capitol has been delayed.

    More than three dozen organizations and individuals, including the American Civil Liberties Union, Disability Rights California and the Western Center on Law and Poverty, signed an April 12 opposition letter raising serious concerns with , one of two nearly identical measures moving through the Legislature to implement Newsom's . The groups often have significant sway among liberal legislative Democrats, the kind of influence that could hinder Newsom's hopes for a new law to be in place by

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