Steinberg

Steinberg said older residents may have difficulty evacuating, due to potential mobility issues, or they may simply refuse to leave.

Darrell Steinberg is the outgoing mayor of Sacramento, former president pro tem of the California Senate and author of the 2013 California Career Pathways Trust, the state’s initial $500-million investment in career technical education.

But Sacramento Mayor Darrell Steinberg, a former state Senate leader who has spent his career trying to generate treatment for the drug-addicted homeless and mentally ill, opposes Proposition 36.

Steinberg, the advisory council chair, acknowledged the major differences, noting, “We’ve never said that we’re just going to take the Norway Model and put it on top of California and boom, that’s the change.”

Dr. Alon Steinberg, a cardiologist who has authored more recent studies that link deaths to prone restraint, is a leading voice against views like those of Ross.