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WUSF Series Investigates the Fastest Growing Group Under the Baker Act, Children

The series explores the how outraged parents and advocates are fighting to stop the abusive use of this law on children. WUSF recently completed a five-part series regarding Florida’s mental health law also known as...

Report Reveals a Record Number of Children Taken into Custody for Involuntary Psychiatric Examinations

Over 37,000 involuntary examinations, called a Baker Act, were initiated on children in Florida during 2018/2019. According to a report released this week by the Baker Act Reporting Center, there were over 210,000...

Campaign Exposing Mental Health Human Rights Abuse Reaches Over 500,000

Watchdog organization is calling the abusive use of the Baker Act a serious threat to mental health human rights in Florida. The most recent report on involuntary psychiatric examinations in Florida disclosed that...

Baker Act Continuing Mental Health Education Course Helps Protect Human Rights

The virtual course identifies the basic human rights impacted by the Baker Act, areas of abuse and the unintended consequences. The Florida mental health law, commonly called the Baker Act, has been a source of...

Baker Act Abuse

Florida's Baker Act in the News The Baker Acting of children in Florida is not "new" news. In fact, the abusive use of this law has been making headlines for years. Some of these stories go viral and reach national and...

Mental Health Watchdog to Host Legal Continuing Education Workshop on the Baker Act

During 2017/2018 there were over 200,000 involuntary psychiatric examinations, Baker Acts, and more than 36,000 of these were initiated on children. The Florida chapter of the Citizens Commission on Human Rights...

CCHR Hosts Continuing Education Course on the Florida Mental Health Law

The virtual course for mental health professionals is designed to help them identify the basic human rights impacted by the law and its unintended consequences. The mental health law in Florida, known as the Baker Act,...

Mental Health Watchdog Offering Continuing Education Course on the Baker Act

The virtual course for mental health professionals will help them identify the basic human rights impacted by the Baker Act and its unintended consequences. The mental health law in Florida, known as the Baker Act,...

Tens of Thousands of Children Sent for Involuntary Psychiatric Examination in Florida

Each year on October 10th World Mental Health Day is observed for the stated purpose of raising awareness on mental health issues. This year the Florida chapter of the Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR), a...

Watchdog CCHR to Host a Baker Act Rights Seminar for World Mental Health Day

During a meeting of the Children’s Baker Act Task Force, it was revealed that a significant number of children sent for an involuntary psychiatric examination did not meet the criteria to be taken into custody....

Almost 410,000 Reached in a Campaign to Protect Children and Parental Rights

Viewed as a statewide problem, the number of children sent for involuntary psychiatric examinations, called a Baker Act, has been steadily climbing for almost two decades and with many parents only finding out their...

Evidence Points to Misuse of the Baker Act with Devastating Results for Children

As reported in multiple news stories, a recently released 85-page study found that “the Baker Act is increasingly being used on school children who make jokes, act out, exhibit normal manifestations of a known...

Watchdog Campaign to Restore Parental Rights Reaches Over 370,000

Recognized across the state for helping parents whose children have been taken to a psychiatric facility for involuntary examination under Florida’s mental health law, the Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR)...

Staffer sexually abused 19-year-old at Tampa Community Hospital, lawsuit says

The woman, who was not named in the lawsuit, was admitted on June 3, 2018 to undergo a mental health evaluation. She was then sexually groomed and abused by employee Frank Lasso during her five-day stay, according to...

Recent Study Calls Psychological Assessments “Junk Science”

In a campaign to remove the stigma attached to mental illness, advocates have created numerous observance days, weeks and months which is why August is known as “National Health Center Week”. This observance week...