Police say their hands are tied when it comes to helping homeless former child star Tylor Chase.
The ex-Nickelodeon actor is back sleeping on the streets of Riverside, California, after being placed on a 72-hour involuntary psychiatric hold last week.
But due to California laws, cops aren’t able to force Tylor into treatment, TMZ reports.
Riverside Police Department spokesman Ryan Railsback told the outlet that the 36-year-old actor needs long-term care but penal laws prevent authorities from putting him into a substance abuse treatment program or mental health facility.
Legally, because Tylor isn’t gravely disabled or a danger to himself or others, Railsback explained that they can’t help him.
Railsback also added that Tylor “politely declines” all efforts by authorities to get him into a facility.
Earlier this month the “Ned’s Declassified School Survival Guide” alum was placed on a 72-hour involuntary psychiatric hold and was meant to enter a a rehab facility last week.
However, the former TV star was reportedly released from the hold before getting the help he needed.
He was spotted back on the streets on Dec. 24.
“They were supposed to hold him and then transport him to a detox facility that we had arranged,” former “Mighty Ducks” star Shaun Weiss told TMZ on Monday. “Instead, they let him out without contacting any of us.”
Weiss and a Riverside resident named Jacob Harris have been major advocates for Chase since it was revealed that he was homeless and living on the streets of the Southern California city earlier this year.
Harris found Chase back on the streets of Riverside after his 72-hour hold last week, according to Weiss, and once again called a mental health crisis team to evaluate the troubled actor.
The crisis team was said to have once again determined that Chase was a danger to himself, and Weiss told the outlet that the homeless ex-TV star was “smoking meth during the evaluation with no shoes or jacket in the freezing cold.”
Despite determining that Chase was a danger to himself, the crisis team reportedly left him out on the street.
Weiss, who has been very open about his own battles with drug addiction, told TMZ that although he isn’t sure about what to do next regarding Chase, he’s been in touch with executive members of the Screen Actors Guild to hopefully get both a political rep and the county of Riverside to step in and help his friend.
It was first revealed that Chase, who starred as Martin Qwerly in “Ned’s Declassified” from 2004 to 2007, was living on the streets of Riverside and battling drug addiction via a TikTok clip shared in September.
The heartbreaking clip did not go viral until earlier this month, at which point fellow “Ned’s Declassified” alum Daniel Curtis Lee found Chase and checked him into a hotel.
“Tylor Chase and Cookie reunite with Ned on FaceTime. Well fed and safe from the rain. Hotel secured!” Lee, who starred as Simon “Cookie” Nelson-Cook on the hit Nickelodeon show, wrote on Instagram alongside a since-deleted video of their reunion.
“One step closer to long term treatment.”