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Senate committee advances bill letting officers use "imminent danger" standard for crisis holds for neurocognitive disorders
Summary
The Idaho Senate Health and Welfare Committee voted to give Senate Bill 1120 a do-pass recommendation after the bill’s sponsor proposed changing the legal standard police use to place a limited crisis hold for people with neurocognitive disorders.
The Senate Health and Welfare Committee on Thursday gave Senate Bill 1120 a do-pass recommendation to the full Senate after a brief discussion about the legal standard police would use to place a limited crisis hold for people with neurocognitive disorders.
Senator Melissa Wintrow, the bill’s sponsor, told the committee the measure is a small modification to a law the Legislature passed last year that created a crisis hold as a last resort for police when a person with a neurocognitive disorder poses a danger to themselves or others. "A homeless…
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