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Originally Posted by Glenn E. Meyer
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17. Release a letter to health care providers clarifying that no federal law prohibits them from reporting threats of violence to law enforcement authorities.
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For mental health care providers - the reporting suggestions are tremendous violations of confidentiality. The NYS new law is a horror in that regard.
None of these were run by mental health professionals. There are already some who have spoken up about how such will interfere with therapeutic interventions.
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Yes, the NY law is awful on this. Violations of confidentiality will be followed by violations of the 2nd, and likely, the 4th and 5th amendments -- how does confiscation of the property of people who aren't suspected of a crime, without any kind of due process, not amount to unreasonable seizure and/or taking of property without compensation?
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New York Times:
New York State legislators on Tuesday passed a gun bill that would require therapists to report to the authorities any client thought to be “likely to engage in” violent behavior; under the law, the police would confiscate any weapons the person had.
And if they're found to have no weapons, they'll still be placed on a state-kept list of prohibited persons...
"Likely to engage in violent behavior" is an order of magnitude beyond "making credible threats of violence" as a reporting standard.
Ugh.