Luedtke Op-Ed Pushes Faster Action on Crisis Co-Response

Councilmember Luedtke published an op-ed in Montgomery Perspective calling for faster implementation of a co-responder Crisis Intervention Team (CIT) model, following a December incident in which County mental health clinicians were endangered during a crisis response without police co-response support or key information access. The op-ed references Luedtke's 2023 legislation establishing the CIT model and advocates for adopting a Sequential Intercept Model framework to better coordinate public safety and health agencies.