A bill now headed to Governor Gavin Newsom aims to add more oversight to treatment programs for kids. It’s one of few Republican-backed bills to pass the Legislature this session.
If signed by the governor, the Accountability in Children’s Treatment Act would require behavioral health treatment programs to document any use of seclusion or behavioral restraints on patients.
It also says they would have to give that record to the person it was used on and their legal guardian within seven days.
The programs would also have to let foster kids, many of whom end up in these programs, know their rights within a day of an incident, including their right to make a complaint without being threatened.
The bill requires the State Department of Social Services to investigate any concern of health, safety or licensing violations.
Republican State Senator Shannon Grove of Bakersfield sponsored the bill, and it gained notoriety after Paris Hilton spoke in favor of it at the Capitol.
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