Dr. Aaron Meyer

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Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ? · Dr Aaron Meyer and Ann Marie Council part 2: Breaking the Cycle: Why Serious Mental Illness Deserves Better Than Jail or the Streets · 24 Jun 2026 podcast

In California, we have court-ordered mental health evaluations where any person can request to the county that there's a person who may be a danger to themselves or others or gravely disabled, so unable to live safely in the community.

This is in addition to the process where anyone can call 911 and request mental health support.

The problem with calling 911 for mental health support is that it can be limited to a point-in-time assessment where it's linked to an emergency.

And when someone is chronically living in such a state that they can't live safely in the community, sometimes this can be dismissed as, well, this is the person's baseline.

And so for these court-ordered mental health evaluations, the county is required to do

the evaluation and have a more thorough review than just a moment in time assessment.

And if there's a reason to believe that the person is a danger or gravely disabled, they can petition to the court.

And if the judge hears the evidence and believes that there's probable cause, can make an order where the person either voluntarily or involuntarily comes for a mental health evaluation.

We submitted 58 public record act requests and no county has an active process for this code section until we recently found one county in California has been doing it.

And so I don't think there's been hardly enough oversight by the state into why this code section isn't being used.

And if we had more oversight.

and the state had ensured that this code section was being followed, would we need other laws?

So before creating other laws, sometimes let's make sure the ones that we have work.

Yeah.

I'm not sure in the county systems that design public behavioral health care, I'm not sure there's even 5% of the people who have spent time in an inpatient psychiatric unit and really know what it's like to evaluate and treat someone with severe mental illness, people who are unable to care for themselves.

And I think if our systems were more preferentially directed towards the population who can't care for themselves, I think we'd see a lot less

neglect and incarceration.

I think we need to listen to parents more.

I think we need to listen to the experience of parents.

And we also need to listen to people's experience who have been through inpatient psychiatric units, have been through involuntary treatment.

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