After she won the lottery, the public guardian placed Julie in a locked psychiatric hospital, saying that she showed poor judgment. The county patients' rights advocate asked PAI to help Julie challenge her conservatorship and placement. Julie clearly was not a danger to herself or others. With PAI's help, she defeated the conservatorship and can now spend her fortune as she sees fit. Many people who manage locked psychiatric facilities and community care facilities do not know that people on conservatorship have rights to engage in consensual sexual relations.
Conservators often tell facilities to ban such conduct.
PAI has developed a model policy and sent it to all county patients' rights advocacy offices to use in trainings.