The May 2023 death of baby Phoenix — and the investigation by the Bay Area News Group that followed — forced a reckoning at ...

Addiction and homelessness are a constant presence in L.A.'s mental health court. Its judge wants defendants to "feel like ...

Patrick Carroll will undergo mental health counseling for two years, in exchange for Los Angeles prosecutors dismissing a criminal case.

Judges in Ventura County are beginning to assess defendants charged with serious crimes and found incompetent to stand trial ...

Kaye's path to mental health court: A former legal aid attorney, federal public defender and civil rights attorney who’d f iled multiple lawsuits against the county for deprivation of mental health ...

I’m a doctor who treats dying patients. People with mental illness who get trapped in the criminal justice system are facing ...

The program is similar to the county's current deflection program for people facing arrest for substance abuse.

A Brisbane woman who allegedly attempted to gouge her foster daughter’s eye out was ordered by a judge to complete a mental ...

Judge orders Dajon Daniel to return May 27 to Department 21 for an update and to remain on diversion while criminal proceedings are suspended.

David Rojas testified that he touched the 34-year-old woman’s right breast twice with his gloved left hand after noticing a ...