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Mobile Crisis Records in New York Forensic Litigation

Stephan M. Carlson, MD, MBA, FAPA · Emergency Psychiatry and Civil Commitment

When a health-led crisis team responds instead of police, the encounter generates a clinical record that later litigation often treats as the first reliable account of a person's mental state. That record was created to make a fast removal-or-divert decision, not to resolve the legal question a lawyer will eventually ask of it. What a health-led crisis encounter is, legally New York's shift toward sending behavioral health professionals to psychiatric emergencies rests on a specific statutory grant. Under Mental Hygiene Law §9.58, an approved mobile crisis outreach team staffed by qualified mental health professionals may remove a person who appears mentally ill and poses a likelihood of ser

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