The Marietta Daily Journal – Cobb County OKs first mental health court

via The Marietta Daily Journal – County OKs first mental health court.

The Cobb Board of Commissioners agreed to accept a state grant that will create the county’s first mental health court, to be overseen by Cobb Superior Court Judge Mary Staley, above.

The vote to accept the grant Tuesday was 3-2 with commissioners Helen Goreham and Bob Ott opposed.

“I voted against that because I felt that there were too many unknowns, too many moving parts in order to obligate our, the county’s, general fund for anticipated expenditures,” Goreham said, in explaining her vote after the meeting.