A California bill that would allow school mental health counselors to send children as young as 12-years-old to residential mental health facilities without parental consent has outraged parental rights advocates.
Erin Friday, an attorney and western U.S. regional co-leader for Our Duty, a parental rights group that opposes transgender ideology, told the Assembly judiciary committee on March 28 that the proposed legislation, Assembly Bill (AB) 665, would violate parental rights under federal and state constitutional law.
“This bill is state-sanctioned kidnapping,” she told legislators at the Assembly Judiciary Committee on March 28.
The legislation, authored by Assemblywoman Wendy Carrillo (D-L.A.), would remove guardrails in current law that state a minor must be deemed in “danger of serious physical or mental harm to themselves or to others” or “an alleged victim of incest child abuse,” before they are allowed to consent to mental health treatment or counseling on an outpatient basis or at a residential shelter without the permission of their parents….