SF News Boyfriend Allegedly Talked of AI Fears, Appeared to Have Mental Break In Days Before Kimberly Wong Murder More than a year after 30-year-old Scott Fisher was arraigned on charges of murdering the girlfriend he lived with in Presidio Heights, we are finally hearing many of the details of the investigation via a preliminary hearing.
SF News SF Homeless Woman Known for Menacing Mothers and Small Children Has Agreed to Conservatorship We learned last week that Kim Andrews, a woman who became notorious for harassing and threatening women and their children on San Francisco streets and in parks over the course of five years, had been charged and detained.
SF News Mentally Ill Man Accused In BART-Shoving Death Had Cycled In and Out of Criminal Justice System For Two Decades The mentally ill homeless man who stands accused of killing a 74-year-old woman at the Powell Street BART Station in July remains hospitalized and has not entered a plea. And now the Chronicle has dug into this criminal record, which is extensive.
SF News Repeat Offender In Castro Gets Punched By Nudist After Attack on Tourist A well known, criminally violent individual who has roamed the streets of the Castro for years was seen on camera last week assaulting a tourist and then getting taken down by a nudist bystander.
SF News Newsom’s Highly Touted CARE Court Has Seen Only 22 Referrals In SF In Its First Six Months Gavin Newsom ordered SF to start compelling severely mentally ill people into CARE Court back on October 1. But now six months into the program, it’s only served 22 people.
SF News Mentally Ill Homeless Man With at Least 60 Arrests Back In Jail on Federal Charges for Presidio Graffiti A very troubled and pretty clearly unmedicated man with a long history of mental illness, addiction, and criminal activity across San Francisco, has been in jail the past three months following an especially creepy incident in the Presidio.
SF News Marin Woman Allegedly Kills Mother, Broadcasts Murder on Facebook Live A 28-year-old woman in San Rafael was arrested Monday after allegedly stabbing her mother to death while on Facebook Live, in the midst of what appears to have been a mental health crisis.
SF News Naked Man Reportedly Shooting Off Gun Amid Mental Health Crisis In Outer Richmond A man who was reportedly naked and having a mental health crisis was firing off a gun on New Year's Eve morning, and he was arrested and thankfully no one was struck by any of the bullets.
SF Politics San Francisco to Begin Compelling More People Into Mental Health Treatment January 1; Newsom Slams Counties That Are Delaying California's new conservatorship law, which expands the pool of potential candidates who can be involuntarily compelled into mental-health or substance-abuse treatment, takes effect January 1, and San Francisco is one of the counties opting to implement it right away.
SF News Newsom Signs Bill That Further Expands Conservatorship of Mentally Ill People Who Refuse Treatment Just a week after Governor Newsom’s CARE Courts started up to compel severely mentally ill people into treatment even if they don’t want it, Newsom has signed a new law that allows a broader interpretation of who can be forced into what they call conservatorship.
SF News Gavin Newsom’s CARE Court Program Starts Today, Can Force Severely Mentally Ill People Into Treatment San Francisco is one of seven California counties that begins Gavin Newsom’s CARE Court program today, a new system that can force mentally ill people into conservatorship and involuntary treatment.
SF News Suspect In Berkeley Hills Matricide Has Long Criminal Past, History of Mental Illness The 36-year-old man who was arrested for the fatal stabbing of his mother on Saturday, as well as stabbings that injured two others, has a long and troubled past with law enforcement, and he appears to have begun having psychiatric problems around age 18.
SF News Welp, at Least One Dreamforce Attendee Was Accosted By a Mentally Ill Person A week after Dreamforce ended, we thought, without a hitch and without any report of an unpleasant street incident, we now get a report of one such incident in which an attendee was assaulted and knocked to the ground by an unhinged suspect.
SF Politics San Francisco Likely Needs Extra Funds From State to Implement CARE Court The state of California is putting the onus on cities to now set up CARE Courts in order to divert some of the most severely mentally ill into treatment and away from jail.
SF News In Test of Civil Liberties Law, the Mayor of New York Announces Sweeping Program to Remove Mentally Ill From Streets It's likely to incite pushback from civil liberties advocates as well as plenty of outcry from residents of other cities like San Francisco who want to see more mentally ill, unhoused people involuntarily committed for treatment.
SF Politics Assembly Passes Newsom’s ‘CARE Court’ Proposal to Let Judges Determine Mental Health Plans San Francisco would be one of the first counties under the jurisdiction of Gavin Newsom’s CARE Court bill, which is cruising through the state legislature with big momentum, despite questions whether it’s just ineffective and hostile bureaucracy.
SF News SF Paramedics Describe Attack By Crazed Man In SoMa Who Chased Them With Their Own Ambulance Two San Francisco Fire Department paramedics say they were attacked this morning by a crazed individual at the edge of the Mission District near Division Street, first with the man smashing the windshield of the ambulance with a wooden stake.
SF Politics Special Hearing on Mental Health Emergency Care In SF Brings Proposal for New Long-Term Care Hospital San Francisco Supervisor Rafael Mandelman held a special hearing Thursday on the mental health crisis in the city, discussing ways it might be addressed with representatives from the Department of Public Health, the police, and others.
SF News Fatal Shooting In Fremont Sounds Like Yet Another Failure for Mental Health System A fatal shooting in a residential neighborhood in Fremont, which is being characterized as an act of self-defense, sounds like a tragic end to a psychotic episode that was left untreated.
SF Politics Critics Agree That Newsom's CARE Court Plan Won't Work Without Huge Investment In New Psych Treatment Beds Governor Gavin Newsom last week unveiled an ambitious-seeming plan to push more of the state's severely mentally ill into treatment. But forced psychiatric treatment requires locked wards and hospital beds that the state has been short on for decades, so how is this all going to work?
SF News Newsom Proposes 'Care Court' to Compel Mentally Ill Into Treatment Governor Gavin Newsom, who as mayor of San Francisco over a decade ago championed a controversial policy for the city's poor dubbed Care Not Cash, is now proposing a new solution for the problem of untreated mental illness in the streets of California cities.
SF News Man Who Invaded Disabled Woman's Apartment Was Arrested a Month Later With a Gun Outside an SF School A visibly mentally ill suspect, who just a month earlier had been jailed for a terrifying incident in which he entered the home of a disabled woman, was arrested again in August following another highly disturbing incident outside a school.
SF News Disabled Woman Tells Harrowing Tale of Mentally Ill Man Who Walked Into Her Corona Heights Home and Wouldn't Leave A disabled woman who can not walk due to multiple sclerosis says that 39-year-old Brandon Paillett walked into her apartment on Roosevelt Way in the Corona Heights neighborhood near the Castro on Tuesday night, muttering to himself, and refused to leave.
SF News Proposed Law Would Give SF Paramedics Ability to Impose Mental Health Holds A new city ordinance being proposed by SF Supervisor Ahsha Safaí would expand the number of personnel on the city's streets who could order mental health holds for individuals experiencing mental health crises.
SF News Mentally Ill Man Who Barricaded Himself Inside Glide Last Year Is Killed In Bayview Shooting A deeply mentally ill man who was implicated in a violent spree in the Tenderloin last spring that ended in a 15-hour standoff with police was killed Tuesday afternoon in a shooting in the Bayview neighborhood.
