This week, four of the five county supervisors were so wowed by preliminary results of a program known as Laura’s Law, or AOT — Assisted Outpatient Treatment — that they approved continued funding ...
San DiegoSan Diego — This month marks the third anniversary of the San Diego County Board of Supervisors’ decision to implement Laura’s Law, a statewide ordinance that allows authorities to order ...
Laura’s Law has been an option for counties in California since 2003, but only in recent weeks have three of the most populous ones — Los Angeles, Orange and San Francisco — voted to implement it. The ...
As the San Francisco Board of Supervisors prepares Tuesday to pass the controversial Laura's Law to compel treatment of mentally ill people, a judge from Nevada County who has dealt with the law for ...
When Orange County became the first big county to embrace Laura’s Law last year – empowering officials to order severely mentally ill people into treatment, even against their wishes – it was ...
A man drives to the East Bay hills every Wednesday to leave groceries for his son, who lives in the woods. An Albany woman sleeps with a baseball bat and stun gun next to her bed, fearing the son who ...
SANTA CLARA COUNTY, Calif. (KGO) -- The Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors will vote today on whether to opt in or out of Laura's Law. Advocates say it provides court-ordered mental health care ...
A few years ago, Union-Tribune Columnist Logan Jenkins wondered in a piece he wrote whether a mentally ill man who was accused of murdering his parents the morning after Thanksgiving 2014 would have ...
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