RSA 490-H:2 Implementation of Mental Health Courts.

I. Any superior or circuit court may establish one or more mental health courts under which the courts monitor offenders with mental illnesses for compliance with individual services to change behavior which would otherwise result in criminal conduct. In this chapter "mental health court" means a judicial intervention process that incorporates the following elements:
(a) Planning and administration guided by a broad-based group of stakeholders representing the community, criminal justice, mental health, substance abuse treatment, and related systems;
(b) A target population is established that takes into account eligibility criteria that addresses public safety and considers a community's treatment capacity, in addition to the availability of alternatives to pretrial det