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California Mental Health Laws Shift Toward Predicting Dangerousness
Original: Two Prosecutor-Backed Mental Health Laws Raise Questions over California’s Shift toward Predicting Dangerousness
Two mental health laws backed by prosecutors are raising concerns in California that the state's approach to people with mental illness is shifting toward predicting future dangerousness. Critics question whether the legislation moves policy away from treatment and support and toward preemptive risk assessment, a change with significant implications for civil rights and how the mental health system handles those deemed potentially violent.
Why now: New prosecutor-backed legislation is prompting debate over whether California is pivoting from treatment-based mental health policy to preventive detention based on predicted dangerousness.
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- Two Prosecutor-Backed Mental Health Laws Raise Questions over California’s Shift toward Predicting Dangerousness · Davis Vanguard
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