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Corrections Department Told TO Provide Special Education and Related Services

by Disability Rights NM | Aug 3, 2022 | Advocacy, Litigation, News

On behalf of students with disabilities who are incarcerated in state-run adult prison facilities, DRNM filed an administrative complaint to the New Mexico Public Education Department (PED) regarding the prison system’s failure to provide special education and related...
DRNM Survey of Areas of Focus for Upcoming Year

DRNM Survey of Areas of Focus for Upcoming Year

by Disability Rights NM | Jul 28, 2022 | News

Take the DRNM Survey Disability Rights New Mexico (DRNM) provides legal services to people who have a wide range of physical, mental, psychiatric, sensory, and cognitive disabilities. As New Mexico’s Protection and Advocacy (P&A) system and Client Assistance...
Historic Jackson lawsuit comes to an end

Historic Jackson lawsuit comes to an end

by Disability Rights NM | May 12, 2022 | Litigation, News

DRNM filed the Jackson lawsuit in 1987 to help people with intellectual and developmental disabilities who were institutionalized in state facilities in Los Lunas and Fort Stanton. After a long trial we were able to convince the federal court that the residents...
Historic Jackson lawsuit comes to an end

Medically Fragile Children Denied Necessary In-Home Nursing

by Disability Rights NM | May 3, 2022 | Litigation, News

On April 28, 2022, Disability Rights New Mexico, alongside our litigation partners from New Mexico Center on Law and Poverty and private counsel, filed M.G. v. Scrase on behalf of all medically fragile children under the age of 21 who qualify to receive private duty...

The Fierce Urgency of Now

by Disability Rights NM | Jan 14, 2022 | News

Message From The CEO: The Fierce Urgency of...

Investigations in 18 States Find Serious Abuse at For-Profit Youth Facilities

by Disability Rights NM | Nov 12, 2021 | News

The National Disabilities Rights Network (NDRN) released a report regarding for-profit residential facilities for youth, informed by the great work of the Protection and Advocacy Organizations, such as DRNM, that monitor them.  New Mexico is mentioned in this report....
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    Albuquerque, NM 87111
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