by CCHR Florida | Nov 9, 2020 | Baker Act, Continuing Education, Rights
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, allows for individuals of all ages, including...
by CCHR Florida | Oct 27, 2020 | Baker Act, Continuing Education, Rights
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, allows for individuals of all ages, including...
by CCHR Florida | Oct 14, 2020 | Baker Act, Parental Rights, Rights
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 organization, hosted a seminar on mental...
by CCHR Florida | Oct 7, 2020 | Baker Act, Parental Rights, Rights
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. Unfortunately, this is not new information. The mental...
by CCHR Florida | Aug 25, 2020 | Baker Act, Children and Teens, Mental Health Screening, Parental Rights, Rights
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) launched a public information campaign earlier this...
by CCHR Florida | Aug 20, 2020 | Baker Act, Mental Illness, Rights
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 the lawsuit. It was filed in Hillsborough Circuit...
by CCHR Florida | Apr 12, 2020 | Baker Act, Children and Teens, Mental Health Screening, Parental Rights, Rights
Even before the current pandemic scare, Florida parents have worried about protecting their children, particularly at school. The fact that children were being regularly taken from school without prior parental notice or agreement for involuntary psychiatric...
by CCHR Florida | Mar 11, 2020 | Baker Act, Continuing Education, Rights
The Florida chapter of the Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR) hosted its fifth conference on the Baker Act which has been notoriously featured in the headlines for the past few months due to very young children being taken into custody. The symposium, held at...
by CCHR Florida | Feb 18, 2020 | Baker Act, Children and Teens, Psychiatric Abuse, Rights, Universal Health Services
Over the past two weeks there has been a viral reporting of the tragic involuntary psychiatric examination of a 6-year-old girl in Jacksonville, Florida. Called a Baker Act, involuntary psychiatric examination is part of the Florida mental health law and it applies to...
by CCHR Florida | Dec 23, 2019 | Baker Act, Children and Teens, Mental Health Screening, Rights
In 2018 an astounding 36,078 involuntary psychiatric examinations were initiated on children in Florida, an almost 19% increase over the past four years. [1] Called a Baker Act, an involuntary examination of a minor allows for a child to be taken into custody and...
by CCHR Florida | Dec 18, 2019 | Baker Act, Elderly, Psychiatric Abuse, Psychiatric Drugs, Rights
Transfer trauma, also known as relocation stress syndrome, has been studied since the 1960s and according to controlled studies the mortality rate for elderly that are transferred is 2-4 times higher than those that are not subjected to this type of stress. [1] All...
by CCHR Florida | Dec 12, 2019 | Children and Teens, Mental Health Screening, Psychiatric Disorders, Psychiatric Drugs, Rights
Today in the United States approximately 7.2 million children between the ages of 0 to 17 are using prescription psychiatric drugs, and almost half of them are on drugs due to being labeled with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). This epidemic of...
by CCHR Florida | Nov 20, 2019 | Baker Act, Children and Teens, Fraud, Rights
Attended by hundreds of guests, the 4th Annual Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR) Humanitarian Awards Banquet once again honored the many dedicated volunteers and supporters of CCHR for their work help restore rights and dignity to the field of mental health....
by CCHR Florida | Nov 20, 2019 | Baker Act, Children and Teens, Fraud, Psychiatric Abuse, Rights
Every year hundreds of thousands of people are taken into custody for involuntary psychiatric examination across the state of Florida. Called a Baker Act, the rampant abuse of rights under this law contributes to tens of millions of dollars in fraudulent billing. In a...
by CCHR Florida | Nov 19, 2019 | Baker Act, Children and Teens, Mental Health Screening, Rights
The mental health law in Florida, commonly called a Baker Act, allows for a person of any age to be taken into custody and transported to a psychiatric facility for examination. During 2018 there were over 200,000 Baker Acts with more than 36,000 of them initiated on...
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