Why wasn t funding for urine testing included in Prop. 36?
The sponsors of Prop. 36 believed that urine testing was too often being substituted for quality drug treatment within the criminal justice system. Given current practices, the sponsors feared that the new money provided by Prop. 36 would be overwhelmingly directed to monitoring offenders with urine testing, rather than being used to build the treatment infrastructure in California, as was intended. For this reason, the $120 million appropriated by Prop. 36 is directed to providing treatment services and not urine testing.
