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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
People with serious mental illness such as schizophrenia and bipolar disorder often refuse treatment because they don't know they're sick. Anita Fisher is the education director for the San Diego ...
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 ...
When signed into law by Gov. Gray Davis in 2002, Assembly Bill 1421 - better known as Laura's Law - represented the most significant reform of California treatment law for mental illness in more than ...
A law that could potentially make our county safer and reduce our homeless population is now implemented in San Diego County after years of serious debate. “It’s been a long battle, at least six or ...
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