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We are making public benefits real! Congrats to Community Legal Aid SoCal and PILP for this monumental victory leading to a new policy for administering general relief benefits in Orange County.

The CARE Act’s new court-ordered system of involuntary outpatient treatment, CARE Court, violates the due process rights of thousands of Californians with disabilities and disproportionately targets people of color who are over-and-misdiagnosed with schizophrenia. PILP, in partnership with Disability Rights California (DRC) and Western Center on Law & Poverty, filed an original petition for writ of mandate to the California Supreme Court.

Federal Judge Cormac J. Carney resoundingly rejected the City of San Luis Obispo’s motion to dismiss, allowing a case brought by unhoused residents and Hope’s Village of SLO to move forward.