How a Bad Law and a Big Mistake Drove My Mentally Ill Son Away NORMAN J. ORNSTEIN
'Ever since the school shooting in Parkland, Fla., law enforcement and other officials have been calling for changes in the Baker Act, a Florida law that allows involuntary commitment for 72 hours of people who are an imminent danger to themselves or others. If the Baker Act had been easier to deploy, they think, Nikolas Cruz, the accused shooter, would have been taken and treated before his horrible act.
However this law may be reformed, it will never be able to get people with serious mental illness the treatment they need.
I know something about the Baker Act. About halfway through my son Matthew’s decade-long struggle with serious mental illness, my wife and I invoked the Baker Act against him.'>>>
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/06/opinion/guns-mental-health-baker-act.html?
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