The Intersection Between Mental Health Civil Commitment and the Criminal Justice System

This seminar will provide: 1 . An overview of the Nebraska Mental Health Commitment Act and the Sex Offender Commitment Act 2. A review of how mental health factors into the criminal justice system: Competency, insanity, and the Mental Health Problem-Solving Program.

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Credit General:0.75

Tag(s) Criminal, Mental Health, Pro Bono, Public Interest

Description

Nebraska MCLE #264239. 075 CLE Hour. (OnDemand credit)

This seminar will provide:

1. An overview of the Nebraska Mental Health Commitment Act and the Sex Offender Commitment Act

2. A review of how mental health factors into the criminal justice system: Competency, insanity, and the Mental Health Problem-Solving Program.

Chris Seifert, Lancaster County Attorney’s Officer

Chris is currently the mental health attorney for the Lancaster County Attorney’s Office, where he’s worked for the last sixteen years. In his role as the office’s mental health attorney, Chris has responsibility for mental health civil commitments, dangerous sex offender commitments, some of the problem-solving programs offered by the County Attorney’s Office, and criminal prosecution. Chris’s previous assignments at the County Attorney’s Office include child support enforcement, problem-solving courts, and prosecuting general misdemeanors, domestic violence, and felony drug crimes. Chris has a journalism degree from Brigham Young University and is a 2006 graduate of the University of Nebraska College of Law. Outside of the courtroom, Chris enjoys reading, writing, and chasing starry Nebraska night skies. He and his wife, Sara, are the proud parents of seven children.

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