Lawmakers tried in 2009 to require that the state report all court-ordered mental health...
A reader calls on Texas Republicans to pass significant mental health legislation given their rhetoric after the Uvalde massacre.In the spring of 2009, Elliott Naishtat persuaded his colleagues in the Texas Legislature to pass a bill that he believed would require the state to report court-ordered mental health hospitalizations for Texans of all ages to the national firearms background check system.
Despite language in Naishtat’s bill that says local courts should report to the state’s top law enforcement agency any time a judge orders any person, regardless of age, to receive inpatient mental health treatment, the news organizations found that they are not reporting juvenile records because of problems with the way the law was written, vague guidance from the state and conflicts with other Texas laws.
“In light of what is happening too many times these days and in recent years, it bothers me tremendously to hear that this law may not have been implemented in the way that it clearly was intended to be implemented,” Naishtat said in an interview. “That legislation with respect to juveniles is probably more important today than ever.”
Experts, including county juvenile probation department officials and a former longtime juvenile judge,did not take into account the complexities of the juvenile justice system in Texas, which places strict limits on what records can be reported. “Anybody dealing with either health records or juveniles are super skittish about preserving privacy and confidentiality,” he said.
The Office of Court Administration convened a task force of clerks, judges and various state officials more than a decade ago to figure out how to increase the number of all mental health records being sent to DPS., found that “DPS lacks the resources to assist the district and county clerks with reporting mental health information.
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