The CALHaven Action Center is the hub for our statewide advocacy network where elected officials and community members join forces to fight for policies that lead to a more sustainable and safe California.
Building partnerships between elected officials, agencies, and nonprofits to provide services and shelter with a focus on long-term solutions to end the homelessness crisis.
Tackling California’s fastest-growing crisis for youth through advocacy for Alexandra’s law, rehabilitation programs, and recognizing drug-induced homicide as a crime.
Partnering with local elected officials and agencies to increase advocacy and funding for mental health, especially through youth services and care for veterans and homeless individuals.
WHEREAS: While Prop 47 achieved notable success in making California’s criminal justice system more equitable, Prop 47 also led to unintended consequences over the past decade.
WHEREAS: Unintended consequences of Prop 47 include repeat and often organized retail theft, inner-city store closings, and difficulty convincing people to seek drug and mental health treatment.
WHEREAS: These unintended consequences can only be corrected by the voters at the ballot box with modest amendments to Prop 47.
WHEREAS: Proposition 36, the Homelessness, Drug Addiction, and Theft Reduction Act has qualified for the 2024 November General Election, submitting over 910,000 signatures.
WHEREAS: The Homelessness, Drug Addiction, and Theft Reduction Act is a bi-partisan measure that provides common sense, targeted reforms to Prop 47 that legislative proposals alone are unable to deliver.
WHEREAS: Rampant retail theft is harming businesses and residents in California because those who commit these crimes know they’ll get away with it, even if they’re caught.
WHEREAS: This measure will hold repeat offenders accountable for the safety of our communities, rather than putting them back on the streets.
WHEREAS: The fentanyl crisis has reached alarming levels, and is now responsible for 20 percent of youth deaths in California.
WHEREAS: The Homelessness, Drug Addiction, and Theft Reduction Act will define fentanyl as a hard drug, hold individuals convicted of trafficking fentanyl accountable, and grant judges greater discretion in sentencing drug traffickers.
WHEREAS: Breaking the cycle of repeat offenders means addressing the many root causes of retail theft.
WHEREAS: The Homelessness, Drug Addiction, and Theft Reduction Act provides critical mental health, drug treatment services, and job training within our justice system for people who are homeless and suffering from mental illness or struggling with substance abuse.
WHEREAS: It’s time for meaningful reforms to our justice system that ensure our communities are safe.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the City of { }, that the City Council formally expresses support for Proposition 36—The Homelessness, Drug Addiction, and Theft Reduction Act—and the benefit that it provides for our community’s safety.
AB 2903 (Hoover): Mandates that starting September 1, 2025, state agencies managing homelessness programs must annually report cost and outcome data to the California Interagency Council on Homelessness, which will then develop uniform reporting procedures and make the compiled data publicly available each year.
AB 2056 (Wallis): Requires the Department of Finance, in coordination with the Interagency Council on Homelessness, to create a public internet website portal that tracks and reports all state spending related to homelessness, as specified.
AB 2173 (Quirk-Silva): Improves outcomes for California’s foster youth and students who experience homelessness, by utilizing existing resources to enhance direct student support, streamline better collaboration of services, and reduce gaps in financial aid application completion.
Alexandra’s Law (Umberg and Ochoa-Bogh): Requires that a written advisory or admonishment be issued to a person convicted of a fentanyl-related drug offense notifying the person of the danger of manufacturing and distributing controlled substances and of potential future criminal liability if another person dies as a result of that person’s actions. It will also require that a fentanyl-related defendant be referred to drug court or drug treatment programs, if applicable.
AB 462 (Ramos): Establishes the Overdose Response Team Fund to support grants for county sheriff departments to form and manage overdose response teams, which will respond to and investigate overdose incidents and provide annual reports to the Assembly Committee on Public Safety detailing arrests, fentanyl and opioid usage, and drug seizures.
AB229 (Joe Patterson): Expands the crimes that are within the definition of a violent felony for all purposes, including for purposes of the Three Strikes Law, to include additional forms of sexual crimes, as defined, human trafficking, as defined, and felony domestic violence, as defined.
AB 2943 (Zbur): creates a new felony to combat retail theft, gets at root causes of why people steal, makes it easier for law enforcement to arrest those who steal, and facilitates the aggregation of different thefts.
AB 1794 (McCarty): allows thefts by the same perpetrator to be aggregated between different places and victims and allows retailers to report crime directly to their district attorneys.
AB 3209 (Berman): authorizes courts to impose a Retail Crime Restraining Order.
AB 1779 (Irwin): restores cross-jurisdictional prosecutions.
AB 1960 (Soria): provides enhanced penalties for individuals who take or destroy property while committing a felony.
AB 1972 (Alanis): expands the CHP property crimes task forces to combat increased levels of cargo theft.
AB 1802 (Jones-Sawyer): makes permanent the crime of organized retail theft and the operation of the CHP property crimes task force.
SB 1416 (Newman): Increases penalties on professional organized retail theft in particularly significant large-scale resale schemes.
AB 2903 (Hoover): Mandates that starting September 1, 2025, state agencies managing homelessness programs must annually report cost and outcome data to the California Interagency Council on Homelessness, which will then develop uniform reporting procedures and make the compiled data publicly available each year.
AB 2056 (Wallis): Requires the Department of Finance, in coordination with the Interagency Council on Homelessness, to create a public internet website portal that tracks and reports all state spending related to homelessness, as specified.
AB 2173 (Quirk-Silva): Improves outcomes for California’s foster youth and students who experience homelessness, by utilizing existing resources to enhance direct student support, streamline better collaboration of services, and reduce gaps in financial aid application completion.
Alexandra’s Law (Umberg and Ochoa-Bogh): Requires that a written advisory or admonishment be issued to a person convicted of a fentanyl-related drug offense notifying the person of the danger of manufacturing and distributing controlled substances and of potential future criminal liability if another person dies as a result of that person’s actions. It will also require that a fentanyl-related defendant be referred to drug court or drug treatment programs, if applicable.
AB 462 (Ramos): Establishes the Overdose Response Team Fund to support grants for county sheriff departments to form and manage overdose response teams, which will respond to and investigate overdose incidents and provide annual reports to the Assembly Committee on Public Safety detailing arrests, fentanyl and opioid usage, and drug seizures.
AB229 (Joe Patterson): Expands the crimes that are within the definition of a violent felony for all purposes, including for purposes of the Three Strikes Law, to include additional forms of sexual crimes, as defined, human trafficking, as defined, and felony domestic violence, as defined.
AB 2943 (Zbur): creates a new felony to combat retail theft, gets at root causes of why people steal, makes it easier for law enforcement to arrest those who steal, and facilitates the aggregation of different thefts.
AB 1794 (McCarty): allows thefts by the same perpetrator to be aggregated between different places and victims and allows retailers to report crime directly to their district attorneys.
AB 3209 (Berman): authorizes courts to impose a Retail Crime Restraining Order.
AB 1779 (Irwin): restores cross-jurisdictional prosecutions.
AB 1960 (Soria): provides enhanced penalties for individuals who take or destroy property while committing a felony.
AB 1972 (Alanis): expands the CHP property crimes task forces to combat increased levels of cargo theft.
AB 1802 (Jones-Sawyer): makes permanent the crime of organized retail theft and the operation of the CHP property crimes task force.
SB 1416 (Newman): Increases penalties on professional organized retail theft in particularly significant large-scale resale schemes.