Task force seeks to change California's mental health commitment law
Monday, April 9, 2012 - 02:30
in Health & Medicine
Self-appointed group says the 1967 law has failed the mentally ill unable or unwilling to seek help.SAN FRANCISCO — A homeless man plagued by schizophrenia is beaten to death by police in Fullerton. A man from Fort Bragg fixates on aliens for years while denying he is ill, then kills two men before dying in a gunfight with law enforcement. A Nevada County mental health client who had refused additional care storms into a clinic and kills three workers.