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Panel, police say clinical crisis response and CIT training reduce Baker Acts; officers cite co-responder models
Summary
Panelists and Cape Coral police described why mobile crisis teams and embedded clinicians are preferable to immediate involuntary examination; officers said every Cape Coral officer receives Crisis Intervention Team training and the department is using clinician co-responder units.
Panelists and law-enforcement speakers at the Cape Coral Youth Council’s April 7 meeting emphasized clinical crisis assessment and community alternatives to involuntary examinations under the Baker Act.
Lori Brooks (Lee County School District) told the council that after the passage of Senate Bill 590 the district prioritized clinical screening, parental contact and use of mobile crisis teams before involving school resource officers. "The threshold for school resource officer involvement is imminent danger," Brooks said, adding that the district asks mobile crisis to do the assessment when possible.
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