This is the Official Voter Information Guide section on Prop. 5, produced by the Office of the Secretary of State of California, which contains Prop. 5’s official title and summary prepared by Attorney General Edmund G. Brown Jr., impartial analyses of the law and potential costs to taxpayers prepared by Legislative Analyst Elizabeth G. Hill, arguments in favor of and against Prop. 5, and other useful information.
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This is the analysis by the nonpartisan Legislative Analyst’s Office (LAO) that explains how Prop. 5 works and how it achieves savings of $1 billion per year, with $2.5 billion in additional savings on capital expenses.
This is the analysis by the Reason Foundation.
This is the campaign’s official response to a critique of Prop. 5 by the National Association of Drug Court Professionals (NADCP). It explains how the NADCP made 25 separate errors of fact in its political position paper. This document is also useful as a guide to how Prop. 5 really works.
County Alcohol & Drug Program directors have also responded to the NADCP position paper. This paper notes “the NADCP paper contains several misrepresentations of NORA” and it rebuts them, point-by-point.
