CA AB2190

Exempts cases from the 180-day confinement requirement for outpatient status if the court finds a suitable placement that provides appropriate mental health treatment and poses no danger to public safety, including victim safety.

Changes outpatient status criteria from mandatory director and community program director advisements to requiring the court to consider whether such advisements were made, making these factors discretionary rather than prerequisites.

Requires conservatorship investigation reports to be served on defendants or their counsel when a criminal court orders a mental health evaluation that leads to conservatorship proceedings.

Mandates conservatorship investigation reports be kept confidential and sealed after criminal case disposition, with limited exceptions for defendants, their counsel, and probation departments supervising the defendant.

Includes legislative findings that privacy protections for proposed conservatees outweigh public access rights and are necessary to prevent deterrence of mental health treatment access.