and today's local news is almost seven years after her murder a mental health law named after nevada county's laura wilcox the right involuntary treatment to people who are dangerous is set to get the board of supervisors voted  to kick off laura's law and the contract to the sacramento firm to provide services for the county's fifteen most challenging mental health cases it's very exciting that our little nevada county is paving the way to implement laura's law s her mother amanda while cox we're grateful about a county behavioral health has risen to the challenge the law allows involuntary outpatient mental health treatment with court orders for people who refuse  intended fashion and other countries are already asking about it according to county behavioral health director michael mccarthy fortune five people would be treated by lawyers at any given time to avert another disaster such as the be enough to convince a legislator to re enact the law it needs to be implemented in other countries so we can get data wilcox added the data will be necessary to prove to the legislator that the law has merit and needs to be an a the program another expanded mental health programs in the county are being funded by the mental health services act proposition sixty three which was passed by voters in two thousand and four excusing although governor arnold schwarzenegger said tuesday there could be a gargi said more money was collected from the act than first projected and other grants could easily fill any financial shortfall at least in the near future the law will be enforced by a team of mental health professionals who work for a turning point community programs sacramento team manager lives in grass valley and the stop is being recruited locally for the team and other needs a lot center adult day care facility and i've had people calling me in tears all day on at it what are we going to do for these people i wish i had a solution for that somebody that's a solution unquote caregivers who relied on the center for  caring for family members will now need to look elsewhere we need to find someone to rebuild in reorganize the program aren't added the board has tried to find a solution but they haven't asked for help and they've given u center vice chairman bob long said he was surprised by bond statement the board has worked very hard to make this work a deal with another organization to assume the center's activities fell through because the clients reimbursement rate the new group could have still mustered was still not enough to make the center go they didn't need their financial status long said of the group whose name he would not divulge it would have put them at risk and they would have been the ones to close the center chairwoman karen adams was unavailable for comment it boiled down to low census and we couldn't meet the expenses of the program going back to nonprofit business as manager when we moved we stopped using the name lot center and changed it to adult days services which led people to believe it was closed the center began using the let's name n payroll is current on added that fifty five clients thirteen staff members and four outside contractors all will be impacting impacted by the closing it's going to be a devastating it's going to be devastating to a lot of people in this community i'm just appalled that has come to this point the program needs eighty five clients to break even bond said didn't know where the additional clientele might come from according to a press release issued by the board attempts to merge after supervisors approved the hike at a meeting on tuesday these raise comes amid an economic slowdown and the prospect of lower property tax revenue in about a county and throughout the state a day earlier governor arnold schwarzenegger ordered states partment stickup budgets by ten percent of financial crisis made worse by the troubled housing market the county board of supervisors said the raise makes hafeez salary competitive with counties of comparable size although acknowledging the financial challenges ahead local officials said the county remains in solid financial shape we can afford increase in july of supervisors also adopted pay hikes from ross county employees managers and public workers and managers also receive raises this year as part of the union and individual contracts most of them were cost of living adjustments was some managers receive more significant increases in an effort to keep sooty sometimes you need to make tough decisions so there is not a major disruption spencer added he began working for the county in eighty nine it was promoted by a previous board to county executive officer in two thousand during this year's annual performance review he was evaluated for his communication skills knowledge of his job and help your work's the general public and staff spent at it came up with an excellent score on just not everything we like rick we don't want to lose them according to spencer the county can bear the extra budget expenses because of money that has been set aside a few where in a very good financial state better than most counties civil rights panel with the g o p s damages for pesticides bring yahoo officials are defending role in chinese journalists jailing and in a study privatized combatants the private military industry has come under under unprecedented scrutiny calling the september killing of seventeen iraqis by blackwater guards here in peril says more countries should sign on to the international convention against the recruitment use financing and training of mercenaries only thirty governments have ratified so far afghanistan at least sixty people have been killed and fifty injured in a suicide bombing targeting afghan lawmakers the dead included hands as well as school children and senior citizens it was the worst suicide bombing in afghanistan since the us invasion in two thousand and one the taliban is denying responsibility but it's the lone group known for suicide attacks inside scheduled if you are reading reports that i was consulted such consultation took place and quote continue to third day of demonstrations today although in a smaller numbers in smaller numbers thousands of people have been detained in the crackdown restrictions senate appropriations chair robert byrd so as democrats wolf used to provide further blank checks for war funding but senior democrats say they still intend to provide up to fifty billion dollars for the iraq war as part of the bill republican backed school that trip from its civil rights leaders gathered in washington she states her new calls for a massive march next week on the justice department leaders including the reverend al sharpton and martin luther the third have called the rally to protest what they call the government's failure to prosecute hate crimes the march plans follow newly disclosed details of the bush administration's role and installing a republican majority in the nation's top racism and discrimination panel according to the boston globe president bush maneuvered to ensure the u s commission on civil rights was compose a republican majority the commission has long been staffed equally with members of both major political parties just practice president bush appointed to republican commissioners who then promptly changed their filiation zte independence after the change changes the agency cancels a slew of planned evaluations supported by has included reports criticizing school integration affirmative action and school admissions and small business to top officials with internet giant yahoo were called from congress on tuesday to testify on their role in the jailing of a chinese journalists she tower was sentenced to ten years after yahoo passed on his e mail and internet protocol address to chinese officials speaking before the respect celebratory we respect the government must support the elderly i repeat it's an obligation for the state to tend to our dear old men and women the tax was created two years ago following us back presidents still medication and wouldn't return his keys man was unable to wait for an officer who would return later five p m a man from the seven hundred block of doris drive put it his wife left their residence and was delusional because she had stopped taking her