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City pursues alternative crisis response team; tentative deal with nonprofit requires risk review
Summary
Redondo Beach staff reported progress toward a mobile mental-health clinician team through a partnership with CLEAR Recovery Center but said the provider seeks mutual indemnity and an insurance-limit clause; council directed staff to continue negotiations conditioned on city risk management review.
City attorneys and staff briefed the council on ongoing efforts to stand up an alternative crisis response (ACR) team to respond to mental-health–related incidents without dispatching armed officers.
City Attorney Joy Ford said the city has explored multiple models — hiring a city clinician (complicated by HIPAA and malpractice concerns), sole-source vendors, and partnerships with health agencies — and had a recent breakthrough in talks with CLEAR Recovery Center, a local nonprofit partner. "They have agreed to provide a project director for supervision, a licensed therapist, and a counselor," Ford told the council.
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