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INDIANAPOLIS (AP) All “red flag” cases filed by Indianapolis police will now come before a judge after an Indiana prosecutor was criticized for declining to use the law to pursue court hearings that could have prevented a man from accessing the guns used to kill eight people at a FedEx facility last month.
Judge Amy Jones, who oversees the filings of red flag cases in Marion County, issued new guidance this week. All such reports will now go straight to her courtroom instead of the prosecutor’s office. Indianapolis police will have 48 hours to submit those filings, and two judges will then decide within 14 days whether to hold a hearing.
Limitations on admissions
Toward the back of IU Methodist’s emergency room is a five-room area called secure holding. Someone experiencing a mental health crisis in that area is still considered an ER patient. Reis said people may stay in secure holding anywhere between a few hours or several days.
“It gives us the flexibility to again have somebody in a space that s designed more for safety,” Reis said.
There are three ways someone can legally be admitted to a psychiatric unit in Indiana:
The patient may volunteer to enter treatment, agreeing that a stay in an inpatient psychiatric unit is necessary.
Governor: Indianapolis still reeling from FedEx shooting Share Updated: 10:32 PM EDT May 1, 2021 The Associated Press
The latest breaking updates, delivered straight to your email inbox. Share Updated: 10:32 PM EDT May 1, 2021 The Associated Press Indiana s governor told members of the Sikh community and others who gathered at a downtown Indianapolis football stadium Saturday to remember the eight people killed in a mass shooting at a FedEx warehouse that he knows their anguish from the attack is far from over.The three-hour event at Lucas Oil Stadium came two weeks after a former FedEx employee fatally shot the eight people, including four members of Indianapolis’ Sikh community, before killing himself. Authorities have not released a motive in the April 15 shooting.Under the stadium s open roof, Republican Gov. Eric Holcomb said in his opening remarks that the capital city “is still reeling from the impact of that dark