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Baker Act

Verb

Meaning

Baker Act (third-person singular simple present Baker Acts, present participle Baker Acting, simple past and past participle Baker Acted)

(US, law, transitive, intransitive) To invoke the Baker Act, i.e., the involuntary institutionalization and examination of an individual in the state of Florida, or (by extension) elsewhere in the United States.

Source: en.wiktionary.org

Examples

“It was the mental health counselor from Child Guidance, not the police officer or school personnel, who made the Baker Act decision,” the district said in a statement. Source: Internet

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