Claim: Princeton revising polices over mental health disabilities.
Verdict: SUPPORTS

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title: Privacy in education
text: top Princeton admissions official. Some say that acts like these raise the issues of student record privacy in the digital world. University of Oregon In 2015 a woman who said she was raped by three basketball players sued the University of Oregon for disclosing her mental health records to an attorney. This case gave rise to employees from the counseling center to write an open letter to the university community as a form to show that they were disturbed by the university's actions. Yet, officials argue that because the women claimed to have emotional distress then the university had the

title: Montgomery Township, New Jersey
text: wastewater treatment facility and an on-site landfill. Later, it became the New Jersey Neuropsychiatric Institute. Most recently, and until 1998, the property was the New Jersey Department of Human Services' psychiatric care facility "North Princeton Developmental Center". For years there were over 100 buildings on the Property, mostly in substandard, unsafe, unsanitary, dilapidated and/or obsolescent condition. Ninety-two of these buildings were abated and demolished summer 2007. The remaining handful of buildings have been boarded up in anticipation of possible reuse as part of redevelopment. Efforts are ongoing to remediate environmental conditions at the site and repair or demolish the dam

title: North Princeton Developmental Center
text: North Princeton Developmental Center The North Princeton Developmental Center, formerly known as the New Jersey State Village for Epileptics, was a medical facility within Montgomery Township, Somerset County, New Jersey. The facility was home to a variety of mental health institutions throughout the years. In 2011, the former self-sustaining mental health village was slated for demolition to make space for a proposed county park. Demolition was completed in 2012 with plans to begin construction of the conceptual park in 2013. The facility garnered much notoriety over the past decades due to its "ghost town" appearance and mention in the popular

title: Office for Civil Rights
text: announced that it had found Princeton University in violation of Title IX. The Office and Princeton reached an agreement on a package of procedural reforms to bring it into compliance including mandatory training, a public awareness and bystander intervention campaign, reexamination of three years of past sexual violence complaints, improved coordination with law enforcement, and expanded documentation of sexual violence on campus. Office for Civil Rights The Office for Civil Rights (OCR) is a sub-agency of the U.S. Department of Education that is primarily focused on enforcing civil rights laws prohibiting schools from engaging in discrimination on the basis of

title: Police reform in the United States
text: the 2010s is the interactions between police officers and individuals with mental illness. "Twenty-five percent or more of people fatally shot by the police have had a mental disorder, according to various analyses." Experts in criminal justice say that funding for mental health services in many parts of the country is insufficient, so police are likely to encounter mentally ill people. In response to negative reactions from the public to high-profile violent interactions between police and mentally ill individuals, some police departments are increasing their specialized training and changing their tactics for their interactions with mentally ill people. For example,

title: New York Civil Liberties Union
text: NYCLU's position that students are entitled to a hearing when threatened with suspension. During the same year, a federal court approved a consent decree in the Willowbrook case that establishes comprehensive and detailed treatment standards for the mentally disabled. Finally, in a test case brought by the NYCLU, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled the mentally ill cannot be held against their will if they pose no danger to themselves or others. In 1976, ten years of lobbying by NYCLU resulted in enactment of state legislation that requires criminal records be expunged when charges are terminated in favor of the accused.

title: Richard Bonnie
text: Among many other positions, he has been associate director of the National Commission on Marihuana and Drug Abuse (1971–73); secretary of the first National Advisory Council on Drug Abuse (1975–80); chair of Virginia's State Human Rights Committee responsible for protecting rights of persons with mental disabilities (1979–85), chief advisor for the ABA Criminal Justice Mental Health Standards Project (1981–88) and Chair of the Commission on Mental Health Law Reform established by the Chief Justice of Virginia (2006–11). Bonnie has served as an advisor to the American Psychiatric Association Council on Psychiatry and Law since 1979, received the American Psychiatric Association's

title: United States v. City of Portland
text: publicized press conference June 8, 2011, Assistant U.S. Attorney General Thomas E. Perez announced the launch of an investigation to determine whether the Portland Police Bureau engaged in a pattern or practice of excessive or unnecessary use-of-force in their interactions with persons in a protected class, people with actual or perceived mental health disabilities, and whether such conduct deprived individuals of their rights secured by the Fourth and Fourteenth Amendments of the U.S. Constitution. The 18-month-long investigation was prompted by the high number of Portland police officer-involved deaths that involved individuals with mental illness, including Kendra James, James Jahar Perez,

title: American Civil Liberties Union of New Jersey
text: a course at Rutgers Law School. Prior to serving as Special Counsel, Barocas was an Assistant Deputy Public Advocate for the Division of Mental Health Advocacy in Wall, New Jersey, where he advocated for the rights of the mentally ill on individual and hospital-wide bases. He negotiated reform of adolescent behavioral programs and proposed a policy for community placements and for the closure of a psychiatric hospital, which was presented by the Protection and Advocacy Advisory Council to Governor Whitman and was later adopted. Barocas also has copyrights for over 40 comedy and political parody songs. He has performed with

title: Ewing v. Goldstein
text: Ewing v. Goldstein Ewing v. Goldstein (Cal. Ct. App. 2004) is a landmark court case that extended California mental health professional's duty to protect identifiable victims of potentially violent persons, as established by Tarasoff v. Regents of the University of California, to include acting upon communications from third parties that indicate a possible threat. In the "Factual and Procedural Background" section of its ruling, the appellate court found the following facts: Between 1997 and 2001, former police officer Gene Colello received treatment from David Goldstein. One of reasons for seeking treatment was the depression that Colello was experiencing after breaking

title: Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law
text: Judge David L. Bazelon, whose decisions as Chief Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit had pioneered the field of mental health law. The Center's precedent-setting litigation has established important civil rights for people with mental illnesses or developmental disabilities. These include the right to treatment in "Wyatt v. Stickney" (decided in 1971 and successfully concluded in 1999), and the Supreme Court's 1999 "Olmstead v. L.C. ex rel. Zimring" decision affirming the right of people with disabilities to receive public services in the most integrated setting consistent with their needs. The Center also

title: North Princeton Developmental Center
text: able to function more efficiently within normal society, and were ultimately able to reintegrate themselves into the mainstream population. In 1953, the facility was turned into the New Jersey Neuro-Psychiatric Institute. This new institution focused on treatment and research of alcoholics, drug-addicts, people with cerebral palsy, and emotionally disturbed children. The State of New Jersey closed down the facility in 1995, with the very last of the patients being removed in 1998. By this time, the facility had been designated as the North Princeton Developmental Center. On , Montgomery Township purchased the property on which the NPDC resides for a

title: Bernadette McSherry
text: Mental Health, a member of the editorial committee of member Psychiatry, Psychology and Law and is the co-editor of the Legal Issues Column for the Journal of Law and Medicine. McSherry's current research examines laws relating to the compulsory detention and treatment of those with severe mental health problems, preventive detention of those considered at high risk of offending and the use of seclusion, physical restraint and chemical restraint in mental healthcare. She led a National Mental Health Commission project looking at best practice in reducing or eliminating seclusion and restraint in mental health facilities and is currently the recipient

title: Olmstead v. L.C.
text: for serving 9,000 individuals with mental illness in community settings. Recently, the federal court's Independent Reviewer for the settlement found significant health and safety risks, including many deaths, plaguing former State Hospital residents due to their transition from a licensed facility home to community-settings per the settlement. The Court has approved a moratorium on such transfers until the safety of those impacted can be assured. Olmstead v. L.C. Olmstead v. L.C., 527 U.S. 581 (1999), is a United States Supreme Court case regarding discrimination against people with mental disabilities. The Supreme Court held that under the Americans with Disabilities Act,

title: New Jersey Department of Human Services Police
text: New Jersey Department of Human Services Police New Jersey Department Of Human Services Police is a statewide police agency in New Jersey. Human Service Police is tasked with the responsibility of patrolling, responding and reporting any crimes against people or property within the several psychiatric hospitals and developmental centers in New Jersey. Such facilities include Greystone Park Psychiatric Hospital, New Jersey State Hospital at Trenton and Ancora Psychiatric Hospital. Along with psychiatric hospitals, Human Services Police is also responsible for the several developmental centers spread over the state. These centers are for mentally handicapped individuals and are located throughout the

title: John J. Ensminger
text: (June 1978) "The Therapeutic Significance of the Civil Commitment Hearing: An Unexplored Potential" which looked deeper into the arguments presented in the 1977 article about law and psychiatric care which has grown to some significant importance in today's world in which we often read about persons with impaired mental health who may be dangerous to themselves or others. The law of mental patients' civil rights has been evolving since John was a class action litigator in the Office of Mental Health Advocacy in the New Jersey Department of the Public Advocate. One of the first references to the Ensminger and

title: Assertive community treatment
text: and his colleagues (especially Robert E. Drake at Dartmouth Medical School) have attempted to consolidate and harmonize several major currents in this continuously developing area of practice, including: An evidence review conducted by the AcademyHealth policy center in July 2016, examining the impact of housing-related services and supports on the health outcomes of homeless people enrolled in Medicaid, concluded that ACT reduces self-reported psychiatric symptoms, psychiatric hospital stays, and hospital emergency department visits among people with mental illness and substance use diagnoses. Because of its long track record of success with high-priority service recipients in a wide variety of geographical

title: Duty to warn
text: and his psychologist informed the campus police, following the session, of the danger that Poddar posed to himself and others and suggested that hospitalization might be necessary. The psychologist also wrote a letter requesting assistance to the chief of campus police. Upon investigation by the police, during which Poddar was briefly detained for questioning, he was released because his mental state seemed to be stable and rational. Shortly thereafter, the director of the department of psychiatry at Cowell Hospital asked for the police to return the letter and ordered that Poddar's therapy notes should be destroyed. No one ever warned

title: Bruce Winick
text: Task Force Report No. 34) (co-edited with Francine Cournos et al.), ESSAYS IN THERAPEUTIC JURISPRUDENCE (1991) (co-authored with David B. Wexler), and Current Issues in Mental Disability Law,(1987) (co-edited with Alexander D. Brooks). He also has edited or co-edited 13 symposia issues of legal and interdisciplinary journals. In addition, he has authored more than 110 articles in law reviews and interdisciplinary journals. Winick is co-editor of the American Psychological Association Books book series, Law, and Public Policy: Psychology and the Social Sciences. He is legal advisor and member of the board of editors of Psychology, Public Policy and Law, and

title: John J. Ensminger
text: right-to-treatment cases against New Jersey public mental hospitals. After meeting Joseph A. Califano, Jr., Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare in the Carter administration, Ensminger spoke to the Secretary about the need to consider using community mental health centers to treat individuals with psychiatric problems before their conditions became severe enough to require institutionalization. Society's tendency to put anyone with psychiatric problems in hospitals, rather than requiring outpatient treatment, was at that time a particular burden of many poor and urban neighborhoods in New Jersey. The Secretary suggested that Ensminger write a piece on the legal status of aftercare systems,