MHLAC testimony to the Judiciary Committee
And our community agrees: Read written testimony from all those who testified in opposition to IOC. Click on the letter images to view the text in full as a PDF.
Legal advocates and individuals’ testimony against IOC:
Testimony from Robert D. Fleischner
Testimony from Susan Stefan
Testimony from Jacqueline Hubbard, Esq. Deputy Director of Policy, Advocacy, and Communications of the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI)
Testimony from Professor Lisa Cosgrove, University of Massachusetts Boston (UMB) and Faculty Fellow of Applied Ethics Center at UMB
Testimony from Sera Davidow, Director of Wildflower Alliance
Testimony from Colin Killick, Executive Director of Disability Policy Consortium
Testimony from Kathleen Flaherty, Esq., Executive Director of CT Legal Rights Project
Testimony from Steven Schwartz, Legal Director of Center for Public Representation
Testimony from Howard Trachtman, co-founder and President Emeritus of the NAMI Greater Boston Consumer Advocacy Network (NAMI GB CAN)
Testimony from Richard M. Glassman, Director of Advocacy, and Barbara L’Italien, Executive Director, the Disability Law Center (DLC)
Testimony from Jordan Goldstein, the Disability Law Center (DLC)
Testimony from David B. Fisher
Testimony from Rob Wipond
Testimony from Alex Green, Fellow of Harvard Law School Project on Disability
Testimony from Danna Mauch, PhD, President and CEO of Massachusetts Association for Mental Health (MAMH)
Testimony from Monica Luke
Testimony from Rae Simpson, independent mental health advocate
Testimony from Kim T. Mueser, Ph.D., Professor at Boston University
Critical analysis by Rob Wipond