News: Nonfatal Injury

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Data suggests 'red flag' laws are linked to sustained reductions in arrests

(SACRAMENTO) Individuals subject to extreme risk protection orders (ERPOs), or “red flag” laws, were significantly less likely to be arrested — including for violent and firearm-related offenses — while the orders were in effect compared to the six months prior.

Strikingly, the drop in arrests did not end when the orders expired and continued for months afterward.

Those are the results of a new study published in PNAS Nexus.

Firearm Policies and ProgramsFirearm Access and Risk, Homicide, Nonfatal Injury, Violence in California
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Sacramento’s first comprehensive trauma recovery center to open at UC Davis Health

(SACRAMENTO) UC Davis Health is opening the first comprehensive trauma recovery center in Sacramento. The UC Davis CAARE Diagnostic and Treatment Center will establish the new center this summer, thanks to a nearly $1.2 million grant from the California Victim Compensation Board. CAARE stands for Child and Adolescent Abuse Resource and Evaluation.

Community EngagementClinical Approaches to Firearm Injury Prevention, Community and Neighborhood Violence, Nonfatal Injury, Violence in California