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Editorial: The false promise of Gov. Gavin Newsom’s CARE courts

A man and a woman beside a car wash in Silver Lake, California, on Oct. 9, 2020.

It’s only natural to scour Gov. Gavin Newsom’s proposed CARE Courts plan for enough redeeming features to make it worthwhile. Californians are desperate for solutions to help people struggling with debilitating mental illness because the state has failed utterly to provide sufficient mental health care. Cities have tried criminalizing the homelessness that can be a result of severe mental illness, and some lawmakers have tried to more easily compel mentally ill people into treatment — anything but make the necessary investment in housing, treatment and care.

But the Community Assistance Recovery and Empowerment Court, and the

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