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SF to Allow Forced Care of Mentally Ill

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Patient-advocacy groups complain.

A measure known as Laura’s Law that would allow the forced treatment of mentally ill patients in San Francisco passed 9-2 on Tuesday night. The law is modeled after one passed by other California lawmakers after 19-year-old Laura Wilcox was shot and killed by a mentally ill patient in 2002....

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