Gov. Gavin Newsom made mental health a priority since he took office five years ago. The ballot initiative voters approved this month will provide billions of dollars to fund housing and treatment facilities for mentally ill Californians.
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District Attorney’s Office Creates New Unit for Homeless, Mentally Ill Defendants
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Op-Ed: Telling the Houseless to Wait for Help Is a Death Sentence
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SV411 Podcast: San Jose Police Chief Eddie Garcia
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Sheriff Deputy Who Killed 61-Year-Old Woman: ‘Fuck, We’re Gonna Have to Shoot Her’
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Protect and Survive: Officer-Involved Shootings on the Rise
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LA Prosecutors Try to Pass off Serial Rapist to Santa Clara County
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A convicted serial rapist may get released in Santa Clara County, should a judge agree to a writ objecting to his relocation to Los Angeles County, where he was born and raised. SoCal native Christopher Evans Hubbart, 62, has admitted to raping 40 women in Los Angeles and Santa Clara counties between 1971 and 1982, according to the Santa Clara County District Attorney’s Office. Due to more lenient laws in the past, Hubbart likely avoided prison terms that would have kept him incarcerated for life.
Read More 3Parks Promote Better Mental Health
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‘Patient Dumping’ Victim Files Lawsuit with Help of ACLU
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A schizophrenic man bused with a one-way ticket, no cash and a few-days-supply of meds from Las Vegas to Sacramento earlier this year has filed a federal class action lawsuit against the state agencies he says abandoned him and at least 1,500 other mentally ill patients. Those patients were bused to nearly every state in the nation, many to major cities like San Francisco, Los Angeles and San Jose.
Read More 2Erratic Behavior by Local Elected Officials a Mental Health Issue?
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A number of local elected officials have recently shown signs of unstable and unacceptable behavior in public life. All of these extreme actions indicate people dealing with mental-health related issues. That does not mean they are all mentally ill. Then again, the absence of a diagnosis is not the same as being “not sick.”
Read More 12Nevada Hospital’s ‘Patient Dumping’ Extends to San Jose, Report Says
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At least five mentally ill patients from a Nevada psychiatric hospital took a one-way ticket to San Jose, arriving homeless and un-medicated at the Greyhound Bus Station in downtown. That’s according to a series of disturbing reports this week by the Sacramento Bee, which investigated Rawson-Neal Psychiatric Hospital’s apparent practice of “patient dumping.” The state-run mental health hospital in Nevada reportedly bused out more than 1,500 patients to various major cities across the country during the past five years, according to records of Greyhound bus ticket purchases reviewed by the newspaper.
Read More 4Newtown Requires a ‘Call to Action’
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The Newtown tragedy is more about the resources we need as a nation to care for our fellow citizens who are mentally ill than gun control. And yet, we will not advance the cause of decreasing violent incidents until we discuss both issues openly and honestly with a subsequent call to action.
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