Lawmaker Aims To Prevent Unwarranted Arrests Of Kids In State’s Foster-Care Facilities
An investigation found that in 2017, minors had been arrested, detained or cited on shelter campuses on at least 66 occasions. Most of those incidents involved youths who broke windows or damaged other shelter property, or physically lashed out against staff and other children.
San Francisco Chronicle:
Millions Sought To Stem Arrests At California Foster Care Shelters
A California lawmaker is calling for $22.7 million in state funding to help prevent unwarranted arrests of abused and neglected children in the state’s residential foster-care facilities — a disturbing practice exposed in a Chronicle investigation last year. The three-year budget proposal, to be introduced next week by Assemblyman Mike Gipson, D-Carson (Los Angeles County), comes as arrests continue across the state at county children’s shelters, despite pledges of reform. (de Sá, Dizikes and Palomino, 4/5)
In other news from Sacramento —
San Francisco Chronicle:
Dialysis Clinics’ Revenue Would Be Capped Under California Ballot Measure
The none-too-euphoniously named “California Limits on Dialysis Clinics’ Revenue and Required Refund Initiative” needs 365,880 valid signatures to go before the voters in the fall. While the large number of raw signatures makes it likely the measure will qualify, it probably be at least a month before the secretary of state can make that official. The initiative, sponsored by SEIU-United Healthcare Workers West, argues that dialysis companies are overcharging patients and insurance outfits, even as patient care is suffering, especially in low-income communities. (Wildermuth, 4/5)