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Kevin S. Settlement and Implementation for Foster Youth
Attorneys and Advocates Issue Statements in Response to Kevin S. Settlement Co-Neutrals’ Report on Status of Implementation Advocates Say “New Mexico’s Children Continue to Suffer From the State’s Delays and Failures” – Call Upon Governor Lujan Grisham to Give Her...
Corrections Department Told TO Provide Special Education and Related Services
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...
Historic Jackson lawsuit comes to an end
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...
Medically Fragile Children Denied Necessary In-Home Nursing
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...
Investigations in 18 States Find Serious Abuse at For-Profit Youth Facilities
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....