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The report that helped change California commitment law
Before the LPS Act, commitment could be indefinite and carry lasting legal disabilities. A 1966 Assembly study put that system under examination and helped frame the legislation that followed.
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What the record says
California case and incident register · Batch 1
- Date
- Nov 1966
- People / institutions
- Assembly Subcommittee on Mental Health Services (Lanterman chair; Petris; staff authors)
- Mechanism
- Legislative study
- Allegation
- Pre-LPS commitment relied on indeterminate confinement and stripped legal rights
- Finding or outcome
- OFFICIAL FINDING; basis of AB 1220 / SB 677 (1967)
- Open questions
- Full report text is in few libraries; obtain and quote the sections on abuse of process
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Reference and provenance
1966-CA-DILEMMA-REPORT