Does the State Department of Health and Social Services have an obligation to provide mental health treatment under the State Suicide Prevention Act?
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The following excerpt is from In re Snyder, 12 Cal.App.5th 744, 219 Cal.Rptr.3d 171 (Cal. App. 2017):
7 As we have previously noted, the SVPA's purposes are " "to protect the public from dangerous felony offenders with mental disorders and to provide mental health treatment for their disorders." " (State Dept. of State Hospitals v. Superior Court, supra, 61 Cal.4th at p. 344, 188 Cal.Rptr.3d 309, 349 P.3d 1013.)
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