Nothing in the police report about offering to take her for an evaluation? It reads like she was barely able to communicate her thoughts, like she was in distress. If the officer concluded that this was a mental health event and not true DV, why weren't trained EMTs called?
I don't know where you are, but I've never heard of a policeman offering to take someone for an "evaluation."
And I've worked with police and in mental health for 30 years. Trained EMT's? For disorderly conduct? Not where I live (non-urban Los Angeles) and my friends in Utah have had way more dramatic things happen without any EMT's called.
I've not one example of LE (where I live)
offering an evaluation. They either make a decision to have an evaluation (and I've been involved in more than I could possibly count) or they don't. Mostly, they don't. We have exactly 1 psychiatrist per million the LE/public sector where I live - which, btw, is considered a fairly well-off place - especially compared to Moab (pop. 5000; LE employees on duty for one night? Probably 2).
I find exactly 1 psychiatrist working in Moab, btw. I can't even imagine.
Someone crying and acting hysterical, where I live (rubbing knees, face in hand, constant crying) is not going to get a psych eval. We are trying to train mental health workers (if someone wants to move here and get the training - PM me), My daughter is one of them. I do some of the training (cadets, LE academy in SoCal).
I also have spent a lot of time in Utah (and while not in Moab, not too far away).
One more thing: where I live, there's one set of EMT's available at any point in time; very busy. They aren't going to appear for disorderly conduct. If, however, one of the parties in this case had asked for mental health care, they probably would have gotten something - the next day. Not right then. What the officer did is, IMO, community standard for at least 8 Western states.
Would be happy to know it's different elsewhere.
One has to assume that if there is a missing persons case, the hospital has at least a duty to notify law enforcement that the person is not missing. That information doesn't have to be made public. LE can simply say she has been found. End of case.
Edited to add that HIPAA applies to health organizations and businesses, not individuals.
I wish this could be said on every platform, infinite number of times.