United States v. Georgia ADA Settlement Agreement (Olmstead settlement)
Olmstead v. L.C. came out of Georgia: Lois Curtis and Elaine Wilson were held at Georgia Regional Hospital at Atlanta after clinicians agreed they were ready for community living, and in 1999 the Supreme Court held that needless institutionalization of people with disabilities is discrimination under the ADA. A decade later the Department of Justice sued the state again, and on 29 October 2010 Georgia and the United States entered a settlement agreement that reshaped the whole system. Under it Georgia agreed to cease all admissions of people with developmental disabilities to its state hospitals by 1 July 2011 and to move everyone with a developmental disability out of the state hospitals by 1 July 2015, backed by 1,150 new home and community-based waivers, mobile crisis teams and crisis respite homes. The court terminated the behavioral health provisions on 11 February 2026; the developmental disability provisions remain in force.
Atlanta, GA
Services: Advocacy / Policy; Housing / Residential; Crisis / Emergency Services; Case Management
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