Los Angeles Board Of Supervisors Motion For Examination Of Increase In Mental Competency Cases

This document is a motion approved on March 8, 2016, by the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors to authorize a root cause analysis of an increase in competency assessment and restoration cases. Between 2010 and 2015, the Los Angeles mental health court has reported that the annual number of competency cases tripled, from 944 in 2010 to over 3,500 in 2015. The analysis will be conducted by the county district attorney, the public defender, the alternate public defender, the sheriff, the director of the county Department of Mental Health, officials with the county Mental Health Court, and the . . .