Sacramento 市议会聚焦无家可归者行为健康 消防局一年相关出警逾1.9万次
Sacramento——位于加州萨克拉门托县的Sacramento市，Sacramento 市议会近日举行听证，聚焦无家可归人群的行为健康干预。市长 Kevin McCarty 表示市府将大力推进此事，并称这一议题很可能成为加州大城市市长联盟明年的首要立法诉求。市府还将考虑调整911接警系统，让更多危机求助由社工等替代响应人员处理，而非一律出动制服警员。
听证的中心是一对 Sacramento 夫妇的经历：他们长期帮助无家可归的女儿寻求精神分裂症与药物使用治疗，相关故事此前由本地媒体系列报道。数据显示，过去一年 Sacramento 消防局涉及无家可归者的出警超过1.9万次，其中8,700次是当事人出现心理健康危机、需送往医院或心理健康机构；近年仅79人就触发了5,100次服务呼叫，耗费市府约1,250万美元。
市议员 Eric Guerra 指出，去年共有10,836人因被认为对自身或他人构成危险而被送往急诊室接受临时非自愿扣留（5150扣留），而法院在2025-26财政年度批准的监护令仅约一百份。他说，需要立即给出明确方向，不能只等州法修改。医疗与行为健康服务主要由县政府负责，但随着无家可归危机加深，市政府介入的程度也在增加。
信息来源：Abridged（Sacramento 地区新闻机构）市议会听证报道
关联：加州萨克拉门托县萨克拉门托市州长纽森10月29日宣布：加州无遮蔽露宿者人数连续第二年下降，较2024年降近13%
Sacramento Council Focuses on Behavioral Health for Homeless Residents; Fire Department Logged 19,000 Calls
SACRAMENTO — Sacramento is a city in Sacramento County, California. The Sacramento City Council held a hearing focused on behavioral health interventions for people experiencing homelessness. Mayor Kevin McCarty said the city will make a major push on the issue, calling it likely to be the top legislative push for the California Big City Mayors coalition next year. The city will also consider changes to its 911 system to allow more alternative responses to crisis calls, such as social workers rather than uniformed police officers.
At the center of the hearing were the struggles of a Sacramento couple to help their daughter, who is homeless, find treatment for schizophrenia and drug use, the focus of a recent local news series. In the last year, the Sacramento Fire Department responded to more than 19,000 calls involving homeless individuals, including 8,700 calls where individuals were experiencing a mental health crisis and were transported to a hospital or mental health facility. Recent data also found that just 79 people triggered 5,100 calls for service at a cost of $12.5 million to the city.
Councilmember Eric Guerra pointed to the gap between the 10,836 people brought to emergency rooms on '5150 holds' in the last year — temporary involuntary detention for people deemed a danger to themselves or others — and the roughly one hundred conservatorships approved by courts in fiscal 2025-26. 'I think a clear direction is needed immediately to work now, and not wait on state law to change,' Guerra said. While medical and behavioral health services are largely handled by the county, the homelessness crisis is drawing the city deeper into that realm.
Source: Abridged, reporting on the City Council hearing
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图片来源：图：Sacramento 河上的 Tower Bridge。图片来源：Michael Grindstaff，Wikimedia Commons，Public domain。Photo: Tower Bridge, Sacramento. Image: Michael Grindstaff, via Wikimedia Commons, public domain.
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