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Laguna Woods backs state reforms for sober living oversight, directs city to prepare supporting correspondence
Summary
Council voted unanimously to support recommendations from the California Sober Living and Recovery Task Force and to back related bills aimed at improving state oversight of recovery housing, and directed staff to prepare corresponding mayoral or city-manager correspondence and consider ordinance drafting.
Laguna Woods City Council on April 2025 voted to support a package of state-level reforms and local actions intended to improve oversight of sober living and recovery housing operators.
Connor Medina, regional public affairs manager for the League of California Cities (Orange County division), briefed the council on a set of bills and administrative reforms the League is sponsoring to address complaints about unregulated or poorly run recovery homes. Medina said cities have limited enforcement options under current federal and state frameworks, and that state…
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