Behavioral health multidisciplinary personnel team.
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- Introduced
- Passed Assembly
- Passed Senate
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Overview
This bill creates ‘behavioral health multidisciplinary personnel teams’ within California counties. These teams will work to quickly identify, assess, and connect justice-involved individuals with mental illness to supportive services, both while incarcerated and after release from jail. The teams will share confidential information among participating agencies to ensure continuity of care, and strict protocols will govern this sharing to protect privacy and comply with relevant laws.
Key provisions
- Establishes behavioral health multidisciplinary personnel teams in counties.
- Focuses on connecting justice-involved individuals with mental illness to supportive services.
- Allows team members to share confidential information among participating agencies.
- Requires teams to designate a qualified person to be a member for specific cases.
- Mandates adherence to county-developed protocols for information sharing.
- Specifies that team members must maintain secure records and comply with privacy laws.
- Outlines requirements for protocol development, including data elements, participating agencies, and security safeguards.
- Clarifies that team members are subject to the same privacy obligations as information providers.
Who is affected
- County governments
- Individuals with mental illness
- Justice-involved individuals
- Healthcare providers
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