When folks go to the hospital and they're held involuntarily for substance use (gravely disabled), once they metabolize the substance, they can no longer be held involuntarily, Quist said.

Mayor McCarty to Ryan Quist of Sac County referring to homeless in mental health crises: "What do you need from us to make this work better?"
Quist: "To be very direct we need housing "

"We have not had a good neighbor policy there," Ho said. "Frankly control of shra as it relates to local housing processes should move back to local authorities."

DA Ho said they've gotten over 800 calls for service at least year and a half at St. Clair Hotel downtown, which is affordable housing that cost about 600k/unit. One of the calls was someone throwing a dresser out the second floor window, he said. Also knives/guns.

Undersheriff on Q from Talamantes about jail releases downtown impacting bizes: "Everybody who gets released from the main jail is offered an RT pass free a bus pass free ... The sad part about that is it's less than 10% of people who accept that service"

Undersheriff Mike Ziegler: A quarter of the 4,000 homeless have a mental health issue. Well over half of them have a substance abuse problem

Sheriff: "Sometimes law enforcement intervention is the only hope for these people that gives them help ... Law enforcement has to be part of it because for too long law enforcement was left out of it"

Sheriff says they've arrested 52 sexual predators in the camps whose victims were primarily homeless women. He gets applause.

Kyle Macdonald of Sac Metro Fire said since 2022 they've averaged over 8k calls a year for homelessness.
"This can strain response capacity impacting response times for other incidents."
(That number isn't counting Sac Fire Dept)

rare at least for an official public meeting, that is.

this is a rare sight. county and city electeds sitting shoulder to shoulder

Lisa Bates of SSF said the $40M they get from HUD annually is now at risk. She's proposing a new regional task force.

I have been tracking road deaths in the city of Sacramento since January 2024. Less than two years, and I'm getting close to 60 names on my spreadsheet. It makes me feel sick to my stomach.