File #: 15-1002    Version: 1 Name:
Type: Resolution Status: Passed
File created: 9/4/2015 In control: DHHS: Behavioral Health
On agenda: 9/15/2015 Final action: 9/15/2015
Title: Authorize the Mental Health Director and the Sheriff, Pursuant to Penal Code Section 1369.1, to Designate the Humboldt County Correctional Facility as a Treatment Facility in Order to Provide Medically Approved Medication to Inmates Who Are Found to Be Mentally Incompetent to Stand Trial and Unable to Provide Informed Consent Due to a Mental Disorder
Attachments: 1. Mental Health Treatment in Jail.pdf

Title

Authorize the Mental Health Director and the Sheriff, Pursuant to Penal Code Section 1369.1, to Designate the Humboldt County Correctional Facility as a Treatment Facility in Order to Provide Medically Approved Medication to Inmates Who Are Found to Be Mentally Incompetent to Stand Trial and Unable to Provide Informed Consent Due to a Mental Disorder

 

Recommendation

That the Board of Supervisors approve the attached Resolution and designate the Humboldt County Correctional Facility a Treatment Facility within the meaning of Penal Code section 1369.1 for the sole purpose of allowing inmates who have been found incompetent to stand trial prompt access to psychiatric medication.