Task force recommends changes to state's involuntary commitment laws

Seattle Post Intelligencer by Carol Smith | Oct. 9, 2008 (News Report)

A mental health system facing a critical shortage of hospital beds, riddled with breakdowns in communication and hamstrung by the state's commitment laws helped create the conditions that led to the killing of Sierra Club worker Shannon Harps outside her Capitol Hill apartment last New Year's Eve, a task force reviewing how the system operated in that case has found.
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 by Kristin Gorski - Oct. 10, 2008

This article shows how extremely complicated dealing with mental health issues are because of the complexity of treatment, monitoring, privacy issues and societal views. The reporter does an excellent job presenting the task force's findings and placing them into larger context. She makes it clear that this is a tragedy for the victim, the perpetrator and for society as a whole; this snapshot into Seattle's event unfortunately also plays out in cities across the country.

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