This perspective in the Daily Journal by Jill McInerney champions Governor Gavin Newsom’s delivery on his campaign promise to invest in California’s children and families in the Budget Act of 2020. With the overwhelming support of the legislature, Governor Newsom increased the state’s commitment for dependency counsel by $20 million and identified another $34 million on federal funding.
As Ms. McInerney states, “The work to revive and rebuild this important statewide (and statutorily mandated) Program providing representation to children and families, decimated after years of financial neglect, may now begin.”