Topic: alternatives to arrest

Recommends Council to instruct the Chief Legislative Analyst (CLA) and City Adminstrative Officer (CAO) with assistance from the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) and the Los Angeles Housing Services Authority (LAHSA) and in cooperation with the Los Angeles County Department of Mental Health and other relevant government service providers, to develop an unarmed model of crisis response that would divert non-violent calls for service away from LAPD to the appropriate non-law enforcement agencies,(2) Instructs the CLA to analyze and report back on programs utilized both domestically and internationally such as CAHOOTS in Eugene, Oregon as well as other models of crisis intervention.

Relates to mobile crisis co-response team programs, provides that the Department of Criminal Justice Services and the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services shall support the development and establishment of a mental health first response and alert system that uses mobile crisis co-response team programs in areas throughout the Commonwealth, provides that a mobile crisis co-response team is defined in the bill as a group of mental health service providers working with registered peer.

Relates to crisis intervention teams, relates to bilingual and multilingual members, directs the Department of Criminal Justice Services to include in the criteria for the development of crisis intervention teams a requirement that each crisis intervention team include at least two individuals who are fluent in a language or languages other than English that are commonly spoken in the community.

Relates to crisis intervention team program, relates to annual report, requires the Department of Criminal Justice Services and the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services to report annually by specified date to the Chairmen of the House Committee on Public Safety, the Senate Committee on the Judiciary, and the Joint Commission on Health Care on the status of crisis intervention team programs in the Commonwealth, including the number of programs and the criteria developed for each area.

Relates to Department of Criminal Justice Services (DCJS),relates to costs and benefits of implementing a deflection to treatment program,relates to report,directs the DCJS to evaluate the costs and benefits of implementing a deflection to treatment program for individuals with substance use disorder or mental illness generally, and the Five Deflection Pathways in accordance with the Police, Treatment and Community Collaborative specifically.

Relates to Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services,relates to Department of State Police,relates to mobile applications,relates to mental health and public safety,requires the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services to develop or obtain a mental health mobile application to facilitate the provision of crisis intervention services by licensed clinicians to individuals in the Commonwealth through calls, texts, and online chat portals.