OPINION - AB 564 strengthens the legal market, protects consumers, supports local economies, and helps California realize the ...

With the final weeks of Session upon us, several procedural items that regularly occur on the Floors of the California Legislature may be in order.

OPINION - Making a correction the commercial potential of cellulosic biofuels is hard, but not making one all but ensures a ...

While redistricting has taken center stage for the moment, when lawmakers return next week they will also have a full package ...

In California, court hearings are regularly held without a verbatim or near-verbatim record ever being created. Some legal advocates say that’s a violation of basic constitutional protections and ...

For more than five decades, the Lanterman-Petris-Short Act has been the foundation for how California treats or fails to treat people with severe mental illness. Now, legislators from both parties ...

The total payroll for the employees of the California Legislature is slightly more than $129.3 million, and the average pay for 2,054 legislative workers is about $63,000 a year, according to ...

In practice, he added, “I generally use their first names.” Established in 1998, four years after he created a similar drug treatment court, Manley’s behavioral health court was the first such court ...

In just a few months, Capitol Weekly will unveil its 16th annual Top 100 list recognizing the most influential members of the Capitol community. As we began researching this year’s list, however, we ...

A massive and highly critical state auditor’s report has given new life to legislation to deal with California’s notoriously troubled mental-health system. The shift comes as state lawmakers, ...

Lobbyist, professor, and author Chris Micheli offers a quick look at what’s coming up this week in Sacramento.

If there was any single event that sped the emptying of state asylums in California in the late 1960s and early 1970s, it was the publication of a 204-page report entitled, “The Dilemma of Mental ...