Research

Scope and Content Note

This series consists of correspondence, memoranda, minutes, rough notes, newspaper clippings, proposed legislation, reports, publications, legal briefs, trial transcripts, and other printed material.

The bulk of these files were compiled or generated by Martin Faust, who acted as Deputy Counsel with the Department of Mental Hygiene's Office of Counsel. As such, Faust was involved mainly with the drafting of new legislation pertaining to mental illness. In addition, this series contains files dealing with the Constitutional Convention of 1967, the Joint Legislative Committee on Mental and Physical Handicaps, discharges and conditional releases of patients in mental health facilities, community services, and state aid programs. Finally, there are transcripts, subject files, and legal records pertaining to a criminal trial which was eventually appealed to the Court of Appeals.