April 11, 2024
A lawsuit alleging the state locks foster children with disabilities in psychiatric residential treatment facilities rather than providing them housing and community services can move forward, a federal judge ruled late last month.
The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services tried to get the case dismissed, but U.S. District Court Judge William L. Osteen Jr. allowed the case to proceed.
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- Timothy B. v. Kinsley
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- Active
Children’s Rights, Disability Rights North Carolina (DRNC), North Carolina Chapter NAACP State Conference (NC NAACP), and Moore & Van Allen filed Timothy B. v. Kinsley against the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) for its pervasive, system-wide practice of unnecessarily warehousing children with disabilities in foster care in dangerous, locked psychiatric institutions—sometimes sending them out of state, hundreds of miles away from their families and communities.
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