Agency guiding state schools mum amid fed probe
From Sunshine Review
February 4, 2009
[edit] Agency guiding state schools mum amid fed probe
"Facing federal pressure to correct widespread abuse and neglect, the Texas Department of Aging and Disability Services has imposed a near blackout on information about how it runs the state's troubled facilities for the mentally retarded.
The agency clamped down on information in response to a U.S. Justice Department investigation that in December found deadly lapses in health care and systemic civil rights abuses of the nearly 5,000 residents who live in the state-school system.
Citing possible legal action from the Justice Department, the agency, known as DADS, has quashed more than a dozen requests for information in the past two years."
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