Department Of Justice Letter Regarding Oregon’s Public Mental Health Care System & Compliance With Americans With Disabilities Act

On April 16, 2014, the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) released a letter to the Special Litigation Unit of the Oregon DOJ following up on the Oregon unit's meeting with state officials in January concerning how the state will ensure that its public mental health system complies with the requirements of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). The DOJ concerns focus on the state's historic reliance on institutional care and lack of adequate community-based services to deliver services in the least restrictive setting, as required by the ADA. The state is . . .