Correction
The Los Angeles Times on Tuesday erroneously reported that the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors approved a fiscal year 2004-2005 budget that maintained $44 million in funding for county mental health programs. Under the budget, the county Department of Mental Health must cut $30.6 million in funding for programs that provide prescription drugs, hospital beds, day treatment and other services for the uninsured, the Times reports. The FY 2004-2005 budget preserves $14 million in funding for the department, which had been slated for elimination in an earlier budget proposal (Los Angeles Times, 6/23).
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