Mayor Eric Adams’ plan to send more New Yorkers thought to have mental illness to hospitals against their will faced its first legal challenge in federal court.
Make your contribution now and help Gothamist thrive in 2022.Mayor Eric Adams’ plan to send more New Yorkers thought to have mental illnessThe filing, which comes in an ongoing class-action lawsuit, argues that Adams’ policy “discriminates against individuals by treating them differently simply because of their actual or perceived mental disability.”
“The city’s recent announcement is the latest in a long history of failed attempts at reform that only serve to exacerbate these systematic failures,” reads the filing by the firm Beldock Levine & Hoffman, New York Lawyers for the Public Interest and other lawyers.
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