Newsom is praising some counties and blasting others as they carry out his signature mental health initiative in the courts.

Gov. Gavin Newsom threatened to pull funding from counties that aren’t taking advantage of a new program intended to help ...

The news comes weeks after the Chronicle published a detailed account of a man who died shortly after he was rejected from CARE Court in San Francisco.

CARE Court rolled out in eight counties at the end of 2023, and was adopted across the entire state by December 2024. The ...