The governor also agreed to take some steps to bolster outside oversight
of the state’s care, yielding to concerns raised by Assembly Democrats
and some advocates for people with disabilities that state regulators
have long failed to adequately respond to cases of abuse on their own.
Lawmakers also agreed to expand the state’s public disclosure law,
requiring thousands of nonprofit groups that provide services to
disabled and mentally ill people to make records of abuse and neglect
public.
Monday, June 18, 2012
New York Strikes Deal on Policing Abuse
ALBANY -- Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo and legislative leaders reached a deal Sunday night to create a new state agency to police abuse and neglect of more than one million New Yorkers with developmental disabilities, mental illnesses and other conditions that
put them at risk, state officials said Sunday.
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