CARE Court begins this week as a new way to combat mental illness and homelessness

October marks the beginning of CARE Court, a new program pushed by Gov. Gavin Newsom to address the homelessness crisis. The system makes it easier for judges to move people suffering from a mental illness off the streets and into treatment. But some critics see it as a way to force unwanted treatment onto the unhoused. San Francisco Superior court Judge Michael Begret joined KTVU to tell us all about the new program.

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