210.365 Crisis intervention team (CIT) training -- Curriculum -- Individual and aggregate reports -- Telephonic behavioral health jail triage system. - Kentucky Statutes

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Page 1 of 4 210.365 Crisis intervention team (CIT) training -- Curriculum -- Individual and aggregate reports -- Telephonic behavioral health jail triage system. (1) As used in this section: (a) "Crisis intervention team (CIT) training" means a forty (40) hour training curriculum based on the Memphis Police Department Crisis Intervention
Team model of best practices for law enforcement intervention with persons
who may have a mental illness, substance abuse disorder, mental retardation,
developmental disability, or dual diagnosis that meets the requirements of
subsections (2) to (5) of this section and is approved by the Kentucky Law
Enforcement Council; (b) "Department" means the Department for Mental Health and Mental Retardation Services; (c) "Prisoner" has the same meaning as set out in KRS 441.005; and
(d) "Qualified mental health professional" has the same meaning as set out in KRS 202A.011. (2) The department shall, in collaboration with the Justice and Public Safety Cabinet, the regional community mental health-mental retardation boards, and
representatives of the Kentucky statewide affiliate of the National Alliance on
Mental Illness, coordinate the development of CIT training designed to train law
enforcement officers to:
(a) Effectively respond to persons who may have a mental illness, substance abuse disorder, mental retardation, developmental disability, or dual
diagnosis; (b) Reduce injuries to officers and citizens;
(c) Reduce inappropriate incarceration;
(d) Reduce liability; and
(e) Improve risk management practices for law enforcement agencies. (3) The CIT training shall include but not be limited to: (a) An introduction to crisis intervention teams;
(b) Identification and recognition of the different types of mental illnesses, substance abuse disorders, mental retardation, developmental disabilities, and
dual diagnoses; (c) Interviewing and assessing a person who may have a mental illness, substance abuse disorder, mental retardation, a developmental disability, or dual
diagnosis; (d) Identification and common effects of psychotropic medications;
(e) Suicide prevention techniques;
(f) Community resources and options for treatment;
(g) Voluntary and involuntary processes for hospitalization of a person with a mental illness, substance abuse disorder, mental retardation, developmental
disability, or dual diagnosis; and Page 2 of 4 (h) Hostage or other negotiations with a person with a mental illness, mental retardation, substance abuse disorder, developmental disability, or dual
diagnosis. (4) The curriculum shall be presented by a team composed of, at a minimum: (a) A law enforcement training instructor who has completed a forty (40) hour CIT training course and a CIT training instructor's course which has been
approved by the Kentucky Law Enforcement Council, and at least forty (40)
hours of direct experience working with a CIT; (b) A representative from the local community mental health-mental retardation board serving the region where CIT training is conducted; (c) A consumer of mental health services; and
(d) A representative of the Kentucky statewide affiliate of the National Alliance on Mental Illness. (5) (a) The department shall submit the CIT training curriculum and the names of available instructors approved by the department to conduct or assist in the
delivery of CIT training to the Kentucky Law Enforcement Council no later
than July 1, 2007. (b) The Kentucky Law Enforcement Council shall notify the department of approval or disapproval of the CIT training curriculum and trainers within
thirty (30) days of submission of the curriculum and the names of instructors. (c) The Kentucky Law Enforcement Council may waive instructor requirements for non-law enforcement trainers whose names are submitted by the
department. (d) If the curriculum or trainers are not approved, the department shall have an opportunity to revise and resubmit the curriculum and to submit additional
names of instructors if necessary. (6) If the curriculum is approved, the Kentucky Law Enforcement Council shall: (a) Notify the Department of Kentucky State Police and all law enforcement agencies employing peace officers certified under KRS 15.380 to 15.404 of
the availability of the CIT training; and (b) Notify all instructors and entities approved for law enforcement training under KRS 15.330 of the availability of the CIT training. (7) Any law enforcement training entity approved by the Kentucky Law Enforcement Council may use the CIT training model and curriculum in law enforcement in-
service training as specified by subsection (1) of this section that is consistent with
the Memphis CIT national model for best practices. (8) No later than one (1) year after June 26, 2007, the department shall submit to the Kentucky Law Enforcement Council a CIT training instructors' curriculum and the
names of available instructors approved by the department to conduct or assist in
the delivery of CIT training instructors' training. Additional instructors may be
submitted on a schedule determined by the Kentucky Law Enforcement Council. Page 3 of 4 (9) All CIT-trained law enforcement officers shall report to his or her agency on forms provided with the CIT curriculum on encounters with persons with mental illness,
substance abuse disorders, mental retardation, developmental disabilities, and dual
diagnoses. The law enforcement agency shall aggregate reports received and submit
nonidentifying information to the department on a monthly basis. Except for
information pertaining to the number of law enforcement agencies participating in
CIT training, the reports to the department shall include the information specified in
subsection (10) of this section. (10) The department shall aggregate all reports from law enforcement agencies under subsection (9) of this section and submit nonidentifying statewide information to
the Justice and Public Safety Cabinet, the Criminal Justice Council, the Cabinet for
Health and Family Services, and the Interim Joint Committee on Health and
Welfare by December 1, 2008, and annually thereafter. The report shall include but
not be limited to:
(a) The number of law enforcement officers trained per agency;
(b) Law enforcement responses to persons with mental illness, substance abuse disorders, mental retardation, developmental disabilities, and dual diagnoses; (c) Incidents of harm to the law enforcement officer or to the citizen;
(d) The number of times physical force was required and the type of physical force used; and (e) The outcome of the encounters that may include but not be limited to incarceration or hospitalization. (11) To implement the requirements of subsections (2) to (5) and (8) to (10) of this section, the department may use public or private funds as available and may
develop a contract with a nonprofit entity that is a Kentucky statewide mental health
advocacy organization that has a minimum of five (5) years of experience in
implementation of the CIT training program in Kentucky. (12) The Cabinet for Health and Family Services shall create a telephonic behavioral health jail triage system to screen prisoners for mental health risk issues, including
suicide risk. The triage system shall be designed to give the facility receiving and
housing the prisoner an assessment of his or her mental health risk, with the
assessment corresponding to recommended protocols for housing, supervision, and
care which are designed to mitigate the mental health risks identified by the system.
The triage system shall consist of:
(a) A screening instrument which the personnel of a facility receiving a prisoner shall utilize to assess inmates for mental health, suicide, mental retardation,
and acquired brain injury risk factors; and (b) A continuously available toll-free telephonic triage hotline staffed by a qualified mental health professional which the screening personnel may utilize
if the screening instrument indicates an increased mental health risk for the
assessed prisoner. (13) In creating and maintaining the telephonic behavioral health jail triage system, the cabinet shall consult with: Page 4 of 4 (a) The Department of Corrections;
(b) The Kentucky Jailers Association;
(c) The Kentucky Commission on Services and Supports for Individuals with Mental Illness, Alcohol and Other Drug Abuse Disorders, and Dual
Diagnoses; and (d) The regional community mental health and mental retardation services programs created under KRS 210.370 to 210.460. (14) The cabinet may delegate all or a portion of the operational responsibility for the triage system to the regional community mental health and mental retardation
services programs created under KRS 210.370 to 210.460 if the regional program
agrees and the cabinet remains responsible for the costs of delegated functions. (15) The cabinet shall design into the implemented triage system the ability to screen and assess prisoners who communicate other than in English or who communicate other
than through voice. (16) The cost of operating the telephonic behavioral health jail triage system shall be borne by the cabinet. (17) Records generated under this section shall be treated in the same manner and with the same degree of confidentiality as other medical records of the prisoner. (18) Unless the prisoner is provided with an attorney during the screening and assessment, any statement made by the prisoner in the course of the screening or
assessment shall not be admissible in a criminal trial of the prisoner, unless the trial
is for a crime committed during the screening and assessment. (19) The cabinet may, after consultation with those entities set out in subsection (13) of this section, promulgate administrative regulations for the operation of the
telephonic behavioral health jail triage system and the establishment of its
recommended protocols for prisoner housing, supervision, and care. Effective: June 26, 2007
History: Amended 2007 Ky. Acts ch. 49, sec. 1, effective June 26, 2007. -- Amended 2005 Ky. Acts ch. 99, sec. 326, effective June 20, 2005. -- Created 2004 Ky. Acts
ch. 137, sec. 2, effective July 13, 2004. Legislative Research Commission Note (6/26/2007). 2007 Ky. Acts ch. 85, sec. 335, instructs the Reviser of Statutes to correct statutory references to agencies and
officers whose names have been changed in the Act, as it confirms the reorganization
of the Justice and Public Safety Cabinet. Such a correction has been made in this
section. Legislative Research Commission Note (6/26/2007). Under the authority of KRS 7.136(1), the Reviser of Statutes in codification has changed the internal numbering
system of subsection (2) of this statute. The meaning of the text was not altered.