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On Tue, 23 Nov 2010 14:55:41 -0500, wrote:

On Tue, 23 Nov 2010 11:13:37 -0800, wrote:

On Tue, 23 Nov 2010 02:17:23 -0500, wrote:

On Mon, 22 Nov 2010 19:45:53 -0800, wrote:

And, pray tell.. who will be filing that writ? The ranting detainee,
who's banging his head against the cell wall?

The ACLU which is how this policy was established in the first place.
The policy before that was that any state sanctioned psychologist
(qualified or not) could commit people and mental hospitals were used
as vagrancy jails.
I agree your average bag lady is not going to file a writ, but even
then your law says they are kicked out in 17 days. My guess is
California can't afford to keep them that long.
Treatment is just drugs anyway and it is hard to force people to take
drugs against their will.

So you believe the ACLU is all-knowing and all-powerful...

We have to protect the "average bag lady." That's the point.

That is who got the current policy into law.
You are the one who linked the California statute that lets the state
hold people for 17 days. In Florida I don'r even think we have the
extra 14 days, it is just 3.

So are you saying 17 days is good or bad? I don't know what Florida's
laws are on the subject. I live in Cali.

I am saying blaming Reagan for "throwing out the mental patients" is
bull**** when the state laws say they have to. (Laws enacted before he
was elected president).

Reaganomics was designed to push people out of care they needed. As
with many things "Reaganomically" it was a failure of policy.

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