Washington submits latest phase of its court-ordered competency overhaul

DSHS submitted its Phase 4 implementation plan to the court-appointed monitor overseeing the Trueblood case, extending the settlement's diversion and forensic-navigator infrastructure to a further set of counties more than a decade after the case was first filed.

The filing marked the case's continued active-but-cooperative status heading into 2026, a contrast to the adversarial contempt proceedings that had characterized much of the previous decade.

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