The Daily News also ran an Op-Ed on the bill by Dennis and Councilman Sabini this Sunday.
Law enforcement needs better tools in order to release communities from the grip of street gangs.
This common-sense legislation will meet that need. We'll keep you posted on the bill's progress. The law was passed in August 1999 with CCI's support. It provides that released psychiatric patients can be ordered to keep taking their medication and rehospitalized if they stop. Prior to the hearing CCI Executive Director Dennis Saffran was joined at a press conference outside the courthouse by several parents whose adult children suffer from mental illness.