Timothy B. v. North Carolina DHHS

On December 6, 2022, the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina published this Timothy B. v. North Carolina DHHS class action complaint for declaratory and injunctive relief. This action seeks to end ongoing discrimination by the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) against children with disabilities placed in child welfare custody (“foster care”) who are unnecessarily segregated from their home communities and routinely isolated in heavily restrictive, and often clinically inappropriate,  institutional placements known as psychiatric residential treatment facilities (PRTFs . . .