A new podcast episode revisits CalMatters' recent story on police stepping back from mental health calls, and what that shift ...

MENTAL HEALTH DIVERSION. IF YOU HAD AN ADDICTION ... In response to this setback, Sacramento County Sheriff Jim Cooper on Wednesday voiced his frustration over the bill's failure.

Police agencies — under scrutiny and worried about their own liability — increasingly won’t respond to someone in a mental ...

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Sacramento County Sheriff’s Office said it won’t be responding to mental health crisis calls where no crime is being committed, instead that responsibility will go to the fire department.

The sheriff's office said the fentanyl seized in this traffic stop "represents a quantity capable of causing millions of fatal overdoses." ...

AB 433 failed to pass in the Public Safety Committee this week and Sacramento County Sheriff Jim Cooper bill would have made child abuse and endangerment crimes ineligible for mental health diversion ...

Why a growing number of California law enforcement agencies are not responding to nonviolent mental health calls. Also, the ...

Rob and Sacramento law enforcement leaders discuss reengineering the response to mental health calls Join Rob ... What are you doing, right?" The sheriff is doing the same thing, but there's ...

The Sacramento County Main Jail and the Rio Cosumnes Correctional Center south of Elk Grove are the subject of a federal consent decree related to inadequate medical and mental health care.

In February, Sacramento County Sheriff announced its no longer responding to 911 non-criminal mental health calls. Instead, ...