Oklahoma settles class action over restoration-treatment delays
Oklahoma's attorney general and the state mental health department settled Briggs v. Slatton-Hodges, a 2023 class action over indigent defendants' restoration-treatment delays, agreeing to a consent decree with phased wait-time benchmarks projected to cost $26 to $45 million to implement over three to five years.
Within a year, the state would be fined for missing those same benchmarks, illustrating how quickly a settlement's compliance clock can run out when underlying capacity hasn't caught up.
Source: Drummond comments on agreement reached in Briggs class-action lawsuit — Oklahoma Attorney General's Office, by Office of the Oklahoma Attorney General
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