5-year history of Baker Act exams on children in Florida. Source: USF Center for Baker Act Reporting 2023/2024 Annual Report. 2023/2024- 29,612; 2022/2023- 33,685; 2021/2022- 34,234; ...

FLORIDA (WKRG) — The Baker Act was enacted by the Florida legislature in 1972. What does it do? The law allows families to place family members in a temporary detention center to be examined … ...

TAMPA, Fla. — Numbers are proving to be a powerful lens into Florida's mental health crisis. According to the USF Center for Baker Act 2023/24 Annual Report, in fiscal year 2023-24 there were ...

The Baker Act was groundbreaking when it first passed in the early 1970s because it created new protections for individuals with mental illness while getting them treatment. Today, it is still a ...

The Baker Act is a roughly 50-year-old state law that allows courts, law enforcement officers and certain medical workers to order people who could be a harm to themselves or others to be taken ...

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Florida had 5,077 incidents of students being involuntarily committed under a mental-health law known as the Baker Act during the past school year, data presented Wednesday ...

According to the Florida Department of Children and Families, there have been 170,048 involuntary Baker Act exams from 2021 to 2022. Skip to content. NOWCAST WPBF 25 News at 4 p.m.

The Baker Act was groundbreaking when it first passed in the early 1970s because it created new protections for individuals with mental illness while getting them treatment. Today, it is still a ...

Children under 18 account for 18 percent of Baker Act cases. The center’s most-recent data said that during the 2019-2020 fiscal year, children ages 18 or younger accounted for 17.74 percent of ...