Because im talking about lives. I dont think, im just, you know, its very hard and we knew nothing about Mental Illness about this, but i will not stop fighting for my son, i wont stop fighting for others and i am going to scream and shout and share until somebody hears. Thats all. [ applause ] thank you. Lets get another perspective on this from eduardo very big vega. You have been forthright to discussions about treatment and in your chronicle about lauras law that you think the need to help the vast majority of people who do want treatments. But arent there cases as we are hearing today that force treatment is necessary . Well, so i have been working in Mental Health field for about 22 years various places across the country. I have worked in crisis programs here and in new york city and pretty much ever phase of program there is. I have been a Suicide Prevention interventionist, i guess after this, the one thing i want to say that force is not treatment. One thing that we have lear
I know is fast to get in there, but when the wheels are turned to come home, its slow. I couldnt accept it. People are like they are going to do this to time. I said no, this is clear. This was what was supposed to have been done from the beginning. Even my families, my loved wupz ones that lost. That made me fight more. I never gate gave up my fate. My hope is restored. With that i would like to thank all of our panelist. Thank you. [ applause ] and we are now going to move to our second panel. While they take their seats, this idea of forced treatment versus Constitutional Rights has always been a tension that weve had in our criminal justice system. There is an issue that came up earlier this year that you may have read about involving this implementation of a court that was supposed to treat individuals who were suffering from longterm alcoholism. And the court was set up in a way where individuals were not being arrested for a crime but instead were being jailed for contempt of co
Our second panel. While they take their seats, this idea of forced treatment versus Constitutional Rights has always been a tension that weve had in our criminal justice system. There is an issue that came up earlier this year that you may have read about involving this implementation of a court that was supposed to treat individuals who were suffering from longterm alcoholism. And the court was set up in a way where individuals were not being arrested for a crime but instead were being jailed for contempt of court as long as 120150 days in jail. My office, when we learned of this, we were not involved in the creation of it, challenged it because we believed that it was unconstitutional because you were not charging people with crimes and you are jailing people for contempt of court when legally they hadnt failed to come to court because in most of these cases they had simply been served with citations. So the legal challenge is filed and the court was found to be unconstitutional by t
Fate. My hope is restored. With that i would like to thank all of our panelist. Thank you. [ applause ] and we are now going to move to our second panel. While they take their seats, this idea of forced treatment versus Constitutional Rights has always been a tension that weve had in our criminal justice system. There is an issue that came up earlier this year that you may have read about involving this implementation of a court that was supposed to treat individuals who were suffering from longterm alcoholism. And the court was set up in a way where individuals were not being arrested for a crime but instead were being jailed for contempt of court as long as 120150 days in jail. My office, when we learned of this, we were not involved in the creation of it, challenged it because we believed that it was unconstitutional because you were not charging people with crimes and you are jailing people for contempt of court when legally they hadnt failed to come to court because in most of the
Worker who had been shot to death by a man who refused treatment. The county r remains the only county to implement the law. There have been other counties in Los Angeles County and other counties who are considering it. Why have they not adopted the law. What is it about forced treatment and the consequences for an allowing refusing treatment. We have a panel who have a knowledge of this subject in some cases because of their professional endeavors and in some cases because of personal experiences and in some cases, both. Let me introduce them. Karen chen is an attorney manager for the San Francisco public defenders office, kathy, whose son battled Mental Illness, can is a subject treatment expert for the medical center. Danny is the associate director for the serial neeb breet program for the city of san diego. And San Francisco chief of police. Gary is a psychiatrist and lauras law advocate and eduardo vega of the Mental Health association of San Francisco. Let me start by opposing