Letter To New Hampshire Supreme Court From Disability Rights Center-New Hampshire & American Civil Liberties Union of New Hampshire RE: Reporting Psychiatric Hospitalizations To National Instant Criminal Background Check System

On July 19, 2016, the Disability Rights Center-New Hampshire (DRC-NH) and the American Civil Liberties Union of New Hampshire (ACLU-NH) sent this letter to the New Hampshire Supreme Court. The two organizations asked the court not to move forward with the state attorney general's interpretation of a recent state law provision regarding reporting to to the National Instant Criminal Background Check System. Under the attorney general's interpretation of the provision, the court must report names of people deemed mentally incompetent by the court and involuntarily admitted for psychiatric hospitalization. The two organizations noted that the . . .