This is an independent, nonprofit law firm providing legal advocacy for people with disabilities anywhere in Alaska. It serves as the congressionally mandated "protection and advocacy" agency in ...

Conditions at Bridgewater State Hospital — a secure state psychiatric center that houses mentally-ill men accused or convicted of crimes — are so bad that the hospital should be shuttered, according ...

An Orem adult care center scrutinized in a scathing report from the state’s Disability Law Center last month has filed a lawsuit alleging Utah health officials illegally bowed to outside pressure when ...

MILFORD - The Disability Law Center issued a report Thursday finding abuse and neglect by staff at the Evergreen Center, a residential school for youths with disabilities, ages 6 to 22. In response to ...

After an investigation into a Bridgewater State Hospital patient's suicide, the Disability Law Center is calling for the facility to be placed into receivership and for state officials to develop a ...

Last month the Disability Law Center, the American Civil Liberties Union of Utah, the American Civil Liberties Union Disability Rights Program, and Latham & Watkins, LLP, reached a positive settlement ...

Disability rights groups argue that a new guardianship law creates a two-tier system that strips people with intellectual ...

BOSTON – The Disability Law Center said Denna Laing's experience having her wheelchair damaged highlights a real problem. Laing is the former hockey player for the Boston Pride who is now paralyzed.

Bridgewater State Hospital at the Massachusetts Department of Correction in Bridgewater, Mass. (Lisa Poole/AP) A new report found little has been done to correct problems at Bridgewater State Hospital ...

SALT LAKE CITY – The Disability Law Center has filed a class action lawsuit against the Utah Department of Health, The Utah Division of Service for People with Disabilities, the Utah Department of ...

Concerned about reports of children being abused and lax government oversight, Utah’s Disability Law Center announced in October that it would investigate the state’s “troubled-teen” treatment ...

OKLAHOMA CITY (KFOR) — The Oklahoma Disability Law Center (ODLC) is investigating allegations of abuse by caregivers at the Robert M. Greer Center after two men were arrested by Enid Police on ...