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Senate committee approves community violence intervention grant bill as part of Black Caucus package

5353841 · July 9, 2025
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Summary

AB 785 would establish a Community Violence Interdiction Grant Program administered by California Health and Human Services to fund community‑driven alternatives to incarceration, using savings from future prison closures; supporters called it an investment in prevention and survivors’ healing.

AB 785, sponsored as part of the Legislative Black Caucus’s Road to Repair package, would create a Community Violence Interdiction Grant Program under the California Health and Human Services Agency to fund community‑driven violence‑prevention and healing programs. The Senate Health Committee advanced the bill after testimony from survivors’ networks and violence‑prevention advocates.

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