The new mandate restricts how quickly and broadly Correctional Health Services physicians can prescribe the medication. Priority will be given to people when they first enter the jail system - the largest in California - which houses roughly 13,000 people across nine main facilities. Everyone else who wants medication will be placed on a waitlist. "It's misleading because we just put people on this list and then they stay on the list," said a physician.
The San Francisco Office of the Chief Medical Examiner sought the public's help in identifying a man who was found deceased in front of 131 10th Street. The man, described as around 30 years old, with red hair and distinctive facial freckles, was identified Monday with the help of media attention on the case, but his identity has not been released. [KRON4]
California is suing the federal government for the release of over $6 billion in education funding, including $939 million owed to the state that the Trump administration allegedly withheld. This funding supports programs for disadvantaged children, migrant farmworker children, and English-language tutoring. Attorney General Rob Bonta stated that Trump's actions violated the U.S. Constitution and federal statutes. The state argues that it was set to receive this funding when its new budget went into effect on July 1.
"There is no invasion. There is no rebellion. The President is trying to manufacture chaos and crisis on the ground for his own political ends," California Attorney General Rob Bonta said.
