Oklahoma fined nearly $1 million for missing competency settlement deadlines
Oklahoma's mental health department paid $928,400 in court-ordered penalties for failing to meet the wait-time benchmarks set in the previous year's Briggs consent decree, with fines assessed at $100 to $500 per person per day depending on how far the waitlist exceeded the allowed limit.
The fine, coming barely a year after the settlement was reached, underscored how difficult these benchmarks have proven for states to hit on the first attempt — a pattern also visible in Washington's and Oregon's much longer sanction histories.
Source: Oklahoma agency fined over competency restoration settlement — Oklahoma Voice, by Emma Murphy
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