Heard on The Judges: _Baker-Act_ v.

[Wilson Gray]

Forty-ish, white female speaker:

"She did the three days of _Baker-Act-ing_"


Florida's Baker Act allows a relative or other representative of the
public weal to place a person deemed to be a danger to himself or to
others as a consequence of alcoholism, drug addiction, or other mental
defect under a period of state control roughly the equivalent of, but
not the same as, a jail term.

Hence, I assume that _to Baker-Act_ is "to be under the authority and
control of administrators of the Baker Act."

But, cf. also, the title

"How to Baker-Act Someone"

wherein "to Baker Act" means "to place someone under the authority and
control of administrators of said act."

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-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint
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-Mark Twain

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