(a) A mental health specialty court is a specialized court within the existing structure of the court system.
(b) A mental health specialty court program shall offer judicial monitoring of intensive mental health treatment and strict supervision of mental health specialty court program participants.
(c) The creation of a mental health specialty court and the appointment of a circuit judge to the mental health specialty court shall be approved by the administrative judge in each judicial circuit and made a part of the judicial circuit's administrative plan required by Supreme Court Administrative Order No. 14.
Structure Arkansas Code
Title 16 - Practice, Procedure, And Courts
Subtitle 6 - Criminal Procedure Generally
Chapter 100 - Mental Health and the Criminal Justice System
Subchapter 2 - Mental Health Specialty Courts
§ 16-100-201. Authorization — Evaluation — Restriction on services and treatment
§ 16-100-202. Goals of mental health specialty court program
§ 16-100-203. Establishment of mental health specialty court
§ 16-100-204. Administration of mental health specialty court program
§ 16-100-205. Eligible persons — Waiver of certain rights
§ 16-100-206. Transfer of cases
§ 16-100-207. Mental health treatment under program — Failure to comply with program
§ 16-100-208. Completion of program — Dismissal of case — Sealing of record