EXPOSED: California's Conservatorship System Is DESIGNED to Fail | The Nick Reiner Case Proves It

California's mental health conservatorship system has a 57% failure rate. More than half of the people released from conservatorships deteriorate afterward. The state's response? Follow-up care is voluntary.

Nick Reiner was under a court-ordered LPS conservatorship in 2020. A judge found him gravely disabled. A licensed fiduciary named Steven Baer was appointed to oversee his treatment. He could be forced to take psychiatric medication. He could be placed in a locked facility against his will. The system intervened.

Then the conservatorship expired in 2021. It wasn't renewed. And for four years, no one with legal authority was watching.<...