Jasmine E. Harris of the Law School weighed in on a California proposal that would require unhoused people to enter treatment programs or be placed into conservatorships. “Community-based services and treatment, when they are meaningful, will almost always be superior to a restrictive setting where the individual loses all agency,” she said. “If you expand the authority for individuals to be hauled into court or to be stripped of their rights, it’s a really slippery slope.”

March 3, 2022 ・ From The Guardian