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California enacts modest changes to mental health court system
Original: New laws make incremental tweaks to California’s mental health court, while bigger changes nixed
California lawmakers have passed new legislation making small, incremental adjustments to the state's mental health court, while rejecting proposals for larger structural reforms. The laws fine-tune how the specialty courts, which divert people with serious mental illness from jail into treatment, operate. Advocates and critics had pushed for more sweeping changes, but legislators opted for narrower tweaks for now.
Why now: New state laws on mental health courts have just taken effect, drawing attention to California's approach to diverting mentally ill defendants from jail.
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