laura's law was modeled directly after new york's kendra's law, which you have heard about, a program which proved highly successful in that state. laura's law holds the same promise, but today, it has not been implemented for a variety of reasons, not the least of which is fiscal. only in our county has full implementation of the program taken place. we were able to do so by utilizing mental health services act funds to establish the required assisted outpatient treatment programs in our existing mental health corp. to provide the framework. though our local experiences have been encouraging, we are a small county and unable to produce the data sufficient necessary to provide fiscal wake up to a reauthorization of the law when its sunsets in 2012. accordingly, we are very pleased that the city of san francisco is taking the necessary steps to implement laura's law. supervisor alioto-pier: if you would not mind, give us further thoughts, and perhaps, you could also tell us what you think your wife might say if she were up here. >> she would conclude this paragraph in the following way

you have heard the data about intra- -- kendra's law. nevada and los angeles county have implemented it. lar was killed nine years ago. nick and i miss her every single day. the mentally ill person who killed laura was found not guilty by reason of insanity. we agreed with the verdict. he was sentenced to napa state hospital. he was very responsive to treatment once he finally received treatment after killing three people. now he has to live every day of his life knowing what he did. he has to live with that. clearly, there has to be a better way for his family and for our family and our communities. thank you. thank you for introducing this. >> i am randall hager, director of government affairs for the california system. maybe i can answer some questions more specifically. the procedures and laura's law are civil procedures. they do not take place in a criminal court or before, judge. they are in a civil setting. it is the design of the law to be able to intervene when people are deteriorating and have a history that determines that the