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"I have some questions about the local and state mental health "services". Things may have changed since the third quarter of 2010, but maybe not.
1) Has anyone ever known the Community Outreach Psychiatric Emergency Services (COPES) to interview all those with reason to know about an alleged incident, before recommending emergency commitment to the local loony bin, to get a context for the situation and check on the truthfulness of those making accusations?
2) Has anyone ever known the mental health unit of the Public Defender's Office not only to inform a candidate for commitment of all of his or her rights under the state and federal constitutions, but to advise that candidate that he or she should ask for a jury trial so as to have the legal right to cross-examine witnesses and accusers?
3) Has anyone ever known the Tulsa Center for Behavioral Health (TCBH aka the local loony bin aka This Can't Be Happening) to turn away someone brought in for examination as unjustly accused?
4) Has anyone ever known a "witness" for an involuntary civil commitment at TCBH, in any proceeding not a jury trial, to be someone other than an employee or contractor of the State or local government?
5) Has anyone ever known of a case where the person accused of being in need of treatment (aka "the consumer") was not examined, for mental defect and/or recommendation for commitment, by the Psychiatrist who would later benefit from employment as that person's doctor of record.
6) Does it strike anyone as improper that the Psychiatrist who would later benefit from such employment could sign papers as the "witness" for commitment, the "evaluator" for the commitment, and the person requesting the commitment?
7) Has anyone ever known the Tulsa Police Department to help someone with difficulties and concerns Before it gets to the point of speculation about ending it all, so as to avoid the massive violation of civil liberties of an involuntary commitment?
8) Has anyone ever known the Tulsa Police Department to take a person with mental health difficulties seriously enough to fully investigate a situation so as to determine the truthfulness of the accusers?
9) Has anyone ever known the Oklahoma Dept of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services to follow the civil commitment procedures listed in section 5-401 of the Mental Health Code (Title 43A), instead of just pretending that it was "Repealed", as it says on their web site. The actual code states that it was repealed and then amended to state what is listed on the Oklahoma Legislature's site."
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