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... Proposition 36, which passed with more than 68% of the vote statewide, gives prosecutors more authority to charge certain drug- and theft-related crimes as felonies and allows judges to mandate treatment for some offenders.

Those who backed the measure, including a bipartisan group of local and state lawmakers, sought somewhere between $250 million and $400 million in state funding this year to implement the law, which took effect in December.

Newsom rejected that request in his nearly $322 billion May budget proposal, arguing that it is up to local officials who supported the measure to find the money as the state grapples with a projected $12 billion deficit. Newsom's refusal to fund Prop. 36 comes after he openly opposed the measure during the election over concerns that it would drive up incarceration rates.

"The state is not the only spigot," Newsom said last month. "There were a lot of supervisors in the county that promoted it. So this is their opportunity to step up, fund it. There were city mayors that supported it. It's their opportunity to step up, fund it." ...