Alaska State Troopers last week transported the principal of Colony High School in Mat-Su to a hospital for an involuntary psychiatric evaluation on an invalid court order, officials said this week.
the day of the incident, Jan. 18, Fulp said she wasn’t at work that day because her “supervisor needed some time to process what had unfolded over the course of a very short time,” an apparent reference to a religious revelation she described in athe prior weekend. Fulp also said she would have been at school “if I wasn’t operating with such grace and compassion for this new level of a testimony that just hit the floodgates over the weekend.
A trooper visited Fulp’s home at 11:45 a.m. and spoke with her and the man who had requested the wellness check, McDaniel wrote. The trooper left about 25 minutes later and determined Fulp was not showing major signs of a mental health issue that would cause her to harm herself or others — the conditions required to initiate an involuntary psychiatric commitment.and said her family had called for her to get a psychiatric evaluation.
The court system notifies law enforcement once an order has been issued, and officers may be asked to assist with transporting the person, said Rebecca Koford, a spokeswoman for the court system. Petitioners are not asked to arrange for transport themselves, she said. In her livestream, Fulp described how she was being “taken to the hospital for claiming that Jesus is King and claiming that I stand with the Martin Luther King civil rights movement.” She complied with the troopers’ request and the roughly 20-minute video ended as they arrived at the hospital around 5:45 p.m. Fulp could be heard speaking for the duration of the ride.
A citizen contacted the public safety department Friday to report that the court order presented to troopers for Fulp’s commitment may not have been valid, McDaniel said. The public safety commissioner, Cockrell, ordered a review of the incident that day.The department requested copies of the documents from the court so they could determine if they were valid, but McDaniel said the requests were denied. Involuntary commitment orders are confidential.
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