Via the Examiner, the District joins 23 states which don't send many records of the mentally ill and substance abusers to a national database that prevents people with mental health issues from buying guns:
[The National Instant Criminal Check System] has about 1.3 million mental-health records in total, but 23 states and the District have each [...]
Virginia Tech has some more explaining to do. More than two years after Seung Hui Cho went on his murderous rampage across the school's sprawling campus, the Post is reporting that his mental-health records from Tech's counseling center have been found.
The new records contradict Virginia Tech's old narrative of events. The records appear to suggest [...]
As WJLA reported last night, and DCist noted this morning, the D.C. Department of Mental Health wants to shutter its mental health centers and replace them with privately-run facilities.
City Desk reached DMH this afternoon for comment.
“We’re doing it," says Director Stephen T. Baron. "But we’re not doing it until ’09." This should not shock anyone [...]
Dear D.C. Gov:
I know you are now suddenly worried about at-risk children. And now must come up with a plan. [We will have more on this plan in a later post].
My most pressing worry concerns an adult, a woman who logs some serious time at the corner of 16th and Irving Streets NW. I've [...]
