Inmunidad para funcionarios en casos de orden de protección extrema

Explicación Simple

Esta ley dice que si un oficial de policía o un abogado decide no pedir una orden para quitar armas a alguien que puede ser peligroso, no pueden ser demandados por eso. También protege a los profesionales de salud mental que avisan a la policía sobre un cliente que podría hacer daño.

Es como si un profesor decidiera no reportar a un estudiante que está teniendo problemas, y no puede ser castigado por no hacerlo. Si el profesor actúa con buenas intenciones, no enfrenta consecuencias.

Ejemplo Práctico

Imagina que Juan, un psicólogo, se da cuenta de que su paciente, Carlos, está amenazando con hacer daño a sí mismo. Juan informa a la policía, y gracias a esta ley, no puede ser demandado si la información que dio resulta ser incorrecta o si no la dio a tiempo.

Texto Original del Estatuto (Inglés)

A chief law enforcement officer, the chief law enforcement officer's designee, or a city or county attorney who, in good faith, decides not to petition for an extreme risk protection order or emergency extreme risk protection order shall be immune from criminal or civil liability. A law enforcement agency shall be immune from civil or criminal liability for any damage or deterioration of firearms, ammunition, or weapons stored or transported pursuant to section624.7175. This subdivision shall not apply if the damage or deterioration occurred as a result of recklessness, gross negligence, or intentional misconduct by the law enforcement agency. A peace officer, law enforcement agency, and the state or a political subdivision by which a peace officer is employed has immunity from any liability, civil or criminal, for harm caused by a person who is the subject of an extreme risk protection order, a search warrant issued pursuant to section624.7175, paragraph (d), or both, after service of the order or execution of the warrant, whichever comes first, if the peace officer acts in good faith in serving the order or executing the warrant. A mental health professional who provides notice to the sheriff under section624.7171, subdivision 5, is immune from monetary liability and no cause of action, or disciplinary action by the person's licensing board may arise against the mental health professional for disclosure of confidences to the sheriff, for failure to disclose confidences to the sheriff, or for erroneous disclosure of confidences to the sheriff in a good faith effort to warn against or take precautions against a client's violent behavior or threat of suicide. 2023 c 52 art 14 s 9;2024 c 85 s 110 Official Publication of the State of MinnesotaRevisor of Statutes