6-year-old spent 48 hours in a mental health facility after school social worker invoked the Baker Act, ... Nadia King later spent 48 hours in the facility, before being released to her mother.

Nadia moved through the system — from the school to the police to the mental institution, all without her mother’s consent — under a controversial Florida law known as the Baker Act.

A 6-year-old special needs girl in Florida was involuntarily committed to a mental health facility because she was “out of control” at school, according to a Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office ...

Authorities were called to the Love Grove Elementary School last week after the girl, Nadia King ... psychiatric evaluation under Florida’s Baker Act, the report states. The Baker Act allows ...