Lake County Mental Health Department v. Susan T.

Opinion

WERDEGAR, J.

—After investigating a treating physician’s report that Susan T.1 was a schizophrenic and a danger to herself and to others, the Lake County Mental Health Department (department) dispatched a crisis services worker to Susan T.’s home. She was living amidst bagged human and animal waste, without water, heat or electricity. She was taken to a psychiatric hospital. Several hours later, another mental health worker from the department took photographs of the interior of Susan T.’s apartment. These photographs recorded the conditions under which Susan T. had been living. The…