A mental health professional has a duty to warn a victim if a patient has communicated to the mental health professional an explicit threat of imminent serious physical harm or death to a clearly identified or identifiable victim or victims, and the patient has the apparent intent and ability to carry out such a threat.
Idaho Code § 6-1902
A mental health professional’s duty to warn
Applied in 2 court decisions — leading case Bradley Ex Rel. Pope v. Ray (1995)
Most recently applied in Doe v. Garcia (March 1998)
I.C., § 6-1902, as added by 1991, ch. 235, § 1, p. 565.
Current official text: Idaho Statutes (Idaho Legislature). Digitized from the UniCourt Code Improvement Commission public-domain capture. Reproduced from public-domain Idaho statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.