Virginia’s Settlement Agreement with the U. S. Department of Justice
In August 2008, the US Department of Justice initiated an investigation into conditions of confinement at the Central Virginia Training Center. In April 2010, the Department of Justice enlarged its investigation to include the provisions of community services throughout the state. DOJ issued its letter of findings in February, 2011 – DOJ found that conditions at the training center and in the community for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities violate the US Constitution and the Americans with Disabilities Act.
After nearly a year of negotiations, in January 2012, the Department of Justice and the Commonwealth of Virginia reached a settlement agreement. The Federal court entered that agreement, with some revisions made at the court’s request, in August of 2012.
Among other things, the agreement requires regular oversight reports from an independent reviewer. Those reports and other related documents are below.
- DOJ Findings Letter (Feb 2011)
- Full Settlement Agreement (Aug 2012)
- Implementation Update (July 2013)
- DOJ Motion for Court Ordered Schedule (Sept 2015)
- The Commonwealth’s Motion in Opposition of a Court Ordered Schedule (Oct 2015)
- Seventh Report of the Independent Reviewer (Dec 2015)
- dLCV’s Motion to File Amicus Brief (Dec 2015)
- dLCV’s Proposed Amicus Brief (Dec 2015)
- Updated Schedule of Implementation (Jan 2016)
- Settlement Agreement page
- dLCV writes to DBHDS re: failure to provide a continuum of care to prevent institutionalization (May 2016)
- DBHDS responds to dLCV re: failure to provide a continuum of care to prevent institutionalization (May 2016)
- dLCV responds to DBHDS re: failure to provide a continuum of care to prevent institutionalization (May 2016)
- dLCV writes to DBHDS re: Brittany (April 2016)
- dLCV writes to the Independent Reviewer re: Brittany (May 2016)
- DBHDS’ response to letter re: Brittany (May 2016)
- dLCV writes the Independent Reviewer with DBHDS’ response letter re: Brittany (May 2016)
- Eighth Report of the Independent Reviewer (June 2016)