On Feb. 23, the San Bernardino County Behavioral Health Department, in partnership with the County Administrative Office and multiple Community Assistance, Recovery and Empowerment (CARE) partners within the county welcomed representatives from the California Health and Human Services Agency (CalHHS), Judicial Council, state partners and community collaborators for a CARE Act site visit.

(Subscription required) His department is where disputes may be framed as fights over property -- trusts, estates, conservatorships and accountings -- but are often driven by something harder to quantify: memory, family history, grief, obligation and the private arithmetic of who did what for whom.

(Subscription required) In a general civil courtroom where cases range from neighborhood disputes to nationally watched litigation, Judge Michael E. Whitaker treats every trial like a flight plan -- preparation first, departure on time. 

(Subscription required) The Walt Disney Co. has agreed to pay a record $2.75 million to resolve allegations it violated the California Consumer Privacy Act by failing to fully effectuate consumer requests to opt-out of the sale or sharing of their data. The California Attorney General's Office alleged that when consumers opted out of such use of their data on one device, the opt-out didn't carry over to other devices they used—an express violation of the 2018 act.