EFE, ACLU and Intervenors File Joint Motion to Enforce Ligas Consent Decree and Agreed Order

On August 6, 2015, Equip for Equality, the ACLU of Illinois and the Intervenors filed a joint motion to enforce the Ligas Consent Decree and Agreed Order.  Because of the current budget impasse, on June 30th, Judge Sharon Coleman entered an Agreed Order that stated that the Illinois Comptroller shall continue to make all payment required under the Consent Decree at a level no less than the levels paid in Fiscal Year 2015.  However, on July 23, Illinois Department of Human Services Secretary James Dimas sent a letter to developmental disability providers advising that the State would fund services only for class members, not for any other beneficiaries of the Consent Decree.  This would include people with developmental disabilities living in private Intermediate Care Facilities for the Developmentally Disabled (ICF-DDs) and people who are living in Community Integrated Living Arrangements (CILAs) who are not class members.  The letter is inconsistent with the Agreed Order which requires that “the Comptroller shall continue to make all payments for all services, programs, and personnel…necessary to comply with the Consent Decree and Implementation Plan.”   The Motion is scheduled to be heard on August 11th.

Joint Motion of Plaintiffs and Intervenors to Enforce Consent Decree and Agreed Order

Exhibits to Joint Motion of Plaintiffs and Intervenors to Enforce Consent Decree and Agreed Order