Laura's Law presentation at the next BOS meeting should be supported by the community

DISCUSSION: Connie Beck, Director of
Health and Human Services will provide the Board with a presentation related to "Laura's Law" (also known as Assisted Outpatient Treatmenl/AOT), a process that
allows the courts to compel individuals with severe mental illness and a past history of arrest or violence stay in treatment as a condition for living in the community, and equally commits the county mental health system to providing the treatment.

The above agenda item, in my opinion, is the most crucial one next Tuesday at the Board of Supervisor meeting.

I hope the Board of Supervisors adopt this and they are supported by the City of Eureka and Arcata and other cities and unincorporated area of the county.

NAPA has to be compelled by court order to come get people from Humboldt and then they release them as soon as they can. If the person ends up in the criminal system again, they get incarcerated.

Governor Jerry Brown should make funding for mental health services a priority, if he wants to reduce prison population. At a national level, legislators should do the same.

Anyone who opposes it does not care about individuals struggling with mental illness or public safety.