State Senator Shannon Grove introduced Senate Bill 1373 to amend the current mental health diversion statute, aiming to create stricter guidelines on how the law is applied and who is eligible. The bill recently passed the Senate Public Safety Committee.
In December, former Kern County Supervisor Zack Scrivner was granted mental health diversion and ordered to get mental health counseling and take antidepressants after he was accused of child endangerment and possession of an assault rifle. Grove said the decision was a miscarriage of justice.
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“He assaulted his children that night when he got home, and then he got sentenced to mental health diversion programs that require him to take antidepressants and get mental health counseling. The same medication that he was taking and the same therapy that he was doing when he went home and assaulted his children. We need guardrails on mental health diversion,” Grove said…