Hello! I'm writing a fic and would really like to get some details right. I'm hoping you guys can help, please! :)

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Searched:
     Wikipedia: "mantated reporting int he United States"
     Google: 'abuse "mandatory reporting" "first year" '

Does anyone know the first US state to pass mandatory reporting laws, and in what year?

Time/Place: A large American city on the west coast, in the mid-1990s
Search terms used: "mental health facility security", "criminally insane security measures", "psychiatric patient contact", "psychiatric patient letters", "can insanity defense patients send letters ( Read more... )

Hello! I need some information for a mystery novel. It's set in Europe, modern time, but it's an AU, so I only need to be convincing, without any specifics related to a particular country ( Read more... )

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Setting : UK (real world) 1980's

What I already searched: I honestly have no idea what to search for. I only want to see if my understanding/idea of how things happen is possible/realistic.

The situation :

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Setting: Modern day Stanford University

Hello!

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Time: 1995 - present ( Read more... )

Hello all! I'm writing a piece set in modern-day NYC involving a character who is arrested and eventually sent to a maximum-security mental hospital for a variety of crimes, including kidnapping and the murder of a police detective. (He's not actually guilty or insane -- it's a whole possession situation -- but of course no one believes that.) ( Read more... )

Setting: The ICC at the Hague, near-future with somewhat more advanced technology, but nothing that would render the scenario radically different than it would be if it were happening in the present, and allowing for a certain dramatic license with regards to what tends to be fairly dry legal proceedings ( Read more... )