A project with deep personal and professional meaning [Opinion]
But I also have had a professional interest in the subject for decades, first as a Statehouse reporter in Augusta, Maine, in the 1980s. My beat included the Augusta Mental Health Institute, the state-run, locked psychiatric hospital. It was an overcrowded, outdated facility where patients struggled for dignity and basic care, and workers despaired of ever being able to help the state’s most seriously mentally ill people.
In the summer of 2021, reporters and editors came together and talked about ways we could tell this story. We decided to frame our reporting around a 72-hour period, the amount of time someone can be held against their will if they are deemed a threat to themselves or others. In mid-July, public safety editor Dana Littlefield, photo editor Sam Hodgson and I reached out to the region’s top officials and invited them to sit down in August to hear about the project: San Diego Police Chief David Nisleit, District Attorney Summer Stephan, then-Sheriff Bill Gore, Mayor Todd Gloria and Supervisor Nathan Fletcher. All except Gloria attended and pledged to give us as much access as possible while protecting people’s privacy. To my surprise, they did.
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