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Youth incarceration fell when California required counties to pay more for juvenile detention
By Clark Merrefield
Monday February 15, 2021
The Fred C. Nelles Youth Correctional Facility in Whittier, Calif., was closed in 2004. (Studio SoCal History/ Flickr/Creative Commons)
During the tough-on-crime 1990s, a California juvenile justice law introduced in the name of fiscal responsibility led to an immediate, drastic drop in youth criminal court commitments to state-run juvenile facilities, new research finds.
The legislation from state Sen. Rob Hurtt, a Republican, took effect in August 1996 and shifted huge chunks of the cost of incarcerating youths adjudicated of minor offenses from the state to counties. The bill was meant to shrink the cost of incarcerating youth $31,000 a year on average to hold someone under 18, according to news reports at th
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Sacramento Bee (CA)
Feb. 12 Several months after Blue Shield and Kaiser Permanente provided free help to Gov. Gavin Newsom s administration on COVID-19 testing, the state has selected the health care companies to run the state s vaccination campaign.
Blue Shield and Kaiser are not supposed to profit from the arrangement, according to intent letters released by the administration. Experts, however, say the health care companies could still benefit in the long run.
State officials have refused to answer specific questions about what Blue Shield and Kaiser s specific roles will be in the vaccination process, saying they are still finalizing the details. Newsom said the state will release the contracts soon.
Del Norte Graduates To Red Tier; After Distributing 300 COVID-19 Vaccines On Saturday, County Is Tapped Out
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Del Norte graduated to the less restrictive Red Tier on the state’s Blueprint for a Safer Economy on Tuesday, which is good news for businesses, especially restaurants.
But after administering 300 doses during a drive-through COVID-19 vaccination clinic at the Del Norte County Regional Airport on Saturday, Public Health Officer Dr. Warren Rehwaldt said the Public Health Branch is “tapped out.”
“We can’t set up any first-dose clinics until we have a larger vaccine supply to work with,” he told supervisors. “What we have on hand is pretty much committed to supplying second doses, and also second doses for the clinics because right now we’re redistributing to all the primary care offices in the county.”
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