Mental health services in Mendocino County are at best very limited and underfunded, and several high-profile examples of inadequate responses have come to light in recent months and years. The question — or more accurately the done deal — before the Board of Supervisors last May 21 was whether privatizing or contracting out Mental Health Services is an improvement.
Several things make us skeptical of the contracts the Board approved, not the least of them the fact that County School Superintendent Paul Tichinin and a member of his Special Ed staff thought the privatization was a great idea.
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