Colorado settles years-long lawsuit over competency evaluation delays
Disability Law Colorado and the state settled an eight-year-old lawsuit over delayed competency evaluations and restoration admissions with a consent decree establishing new deadlines and a triage system for prioritizing the most urgent cases. The group called it a sweeping overhaul of what it described as a "broken" competency system.
The settlement would not be the end of Colorado's competency-capacity troubles, however — bed closures at the state's forensic hospital and a persistent backlog would both resurface in the years that followed.
Source: Agreement Reached Over Long Waits for Court-Ordered Mental Health Treatment — Disability Law Colorado
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