Full settlement made public today by Herrera’s office after the City’s Board of Supervisors gave its initial approval to agreement in City’s class-action suit against Nevada over ‘patient dumping’ allegations
The City Attorney’s Office of San Francisco speaks on behalf of the Nevada patient dumping lawsuit, filed against the state of Nevada for allegedly busing psychiatric patients from Las Vegas to San Francisco. Featuring interviews with City Attorney Dennis Herrera, Deputy City Attorney Kristine Poplawski, lead investigator David Burke, and Executive Director of Mental Health Association of SF, Eduardo Vega.
City Attorney Dennis Herrera filed a class action against the State of Nevada on behalf of California local governments to which indigent psychiatric patients were improperly bused from the state-run Rawson-Neal Hospital in Las Vegas.
City Attorney follows through on litigation threat to seek statewide injunction, restitution for S.F.’s costs for care of improperly bused non-residents
Silver State can avoid litigation, according to demand letter, with commitment to reimburse California localities for costs, adopt strict mental health protocols
S.F. health and homeless services providers invited to assist in gathering evidence from others victimized by practice, which bused 1,500 patients out of Nevada in five years
