It will be a whitewash of our emergency mental health/involuntary commitment system and the recent changes that have resulted in a critical lack of psychiatric beds throughout the state and increased danger to patients and the public.

should be a rewrite of the standard order prepared by special justices in involuntary commitment cases to specifically provide for follow up by the Community Services Board and the Court. 

Another issue that troubles me, which no one seems to be talking about, is the apparent lack of structure, training, and understanding of their own role possessed by the CSBs.  This was evident in the Cho case, and evident in other cases I've seen.  Recently I was involved in a case where a person from the CSB refused to share any information with the custodial parent of a minor child who was involuntarily committed because she believed the HIPAA regulations forbade it.  This kind of blunder demonstrates real ignorance of the law which she and her agency are supposed to be working under.

We also need some serious review of the people who clearly need to be involuntarily committed, but don't even get before the special justice, because the magistrate or the CSB do not even start the process due to a "lack of beds."  Show me in the law where the "lack of beds" allows DMHMRSAS to ignore a court order.  It's not there, and it's about time the judiciary acted independently and ordered the executive branch to fulfill its mandatory statutory duties when people need psychiatric hospitalization and meet the legal standard for involuntary commitment.  People are hurt, dying, or in jail because the law is not being followed.  All in the name of freedom.  What an absolute farce.