The Treatment Advocacy Center (TAC) has this post about the death of Officer Jason West of Cleveland Heights, OH, the case noted in yesterday's News Scan. The suspect, Timothy Halton Jr., had been ordered to take antipsychotic medication for his mental illness as part of his probation for an earlier assault charge. It appears that Halton had refused to take his medication, which likely means that he was symptomatic at the time of the shooting. As TAC discusses,Ohio does not have an outpatient commitment law, such as New York's Kendra's Law, which has a good track record for improving treatment adherence among those with severe mental illnesses and histories of noncompliance.

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