315.990 Sexually Violent Predators Civil Commitment Law:
MSSNY completely recognizes and supports the state’s obligation to protect the citizens of New York State from sexually violent predators, and opposes legislation or regulation which attempts to create new definitions of mental illness to misuse existing psychiatric medical diagnoses or require psychiatric physicians and/or psychiatric treatment facilities to accept such diagnostic categories. Any sexually violent predator program should be placed under the auspices of another, non-medical department, such as the Department of Corrections, not under the Office of Mental Health and that funding for any sexually violent predator program should not come at the expense of the Office of Mental Health. (HOD 2006-169; Reaffirmed HOD 2016)
