Lawsuit Seeks Protection for New Hampshire Residents Facing Dangerous Institutional Placements in Nursing Facilities
CONCORD, N.H. New Hampshire residents who depend on the state to provide them with Medicaid-funded long-term care are suing the state for its failure to properly administer its Choices for Independence (“CFI”) Medicaid waiver. New Hampshire Legal Assistance, Disability Rights Center – New Hampshire, AARP Foundation, and the Manchester office of Nixon Peabody LLP represent older adults and persons with disabilities enrolled in the CFI program who filed a lawsuit in federal court today on behalf of themselves and other CFI participants. They allege that New Hampshire’s failure to deliver CFI services places them at risk of unnecessary and dangerous institutionalization in nursing facilities.
Lawsuit says NH has ‘warehoused’ foster teens in group care
The Associated Press
Modified: 1/5/2021 10:26:20 PM
CONCORD New Hampshire has “unnecessarily warehoused” foster care teens in institutional and group care facilities instead of with families and has not acted in their best interests, according to a federal class-action lawsuit filed by several legal groups on Tuesday.
In the lawsuit against the state, plaintiffs allege that older youth under the custody of the Division for Children, Youth and Families are routinely denied placement in less restrictive foster home and family-based settings.
The lawsuit also alleges that the state denies older youths legal representation when placing them in restrictive group care settings and violates federal law by failing to adequately provide and implement critical case plans.
DOVER – The attorney for former Dover police officer Ronald “RJ” Letendre asked for his client to have access to guns while out on bail on a felony charge of falsifying physical evidence.
Strafford County Attorney Thomas Velardi also revealed Letendre and his estranged wife, Sarah Letendre, may be seeking to reunite, raising that as a concern regarding the guns.
Public defender Carl Swenson argued Friday morning “that there is a constitutional right to a firearm” and Letendre should not be prevented from having access to one “merely because of an accusation of a felony-level offense.”
Swenson told Superior Court Judge Mark Howard “the circumstances of this case does not suggest” there would be any danger for Letendre to have “access to a firearm.”