RD98 - Report on Department of Justice (DOJ) Settlement Agreement Compliance Status, FY2024, Q4 – January 14, 2025
Executive Summary: The Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services (DBHDS) has been the agency lead for the Department of Justice Settlement Agreement since it was finalized in August 2012. The Settlement Agreement comprises 121 provisions. The Commonwealth has successfully exited Section IV and VI.D, which comprise 34 provisions of the agreement. As of the Independent reviewer’s 24th report, the Commonwealth is in sustained compliance (met the provision for two consecutive review periods) with an additional 60 provisions and in compliance (met the provision for one review period) with three more provisions. The Commonwealth complies 97 of the 121 provisions of the Agreement. Additionally, four provisions were removed by the court in July 2023, which changes the number of provisions under review to 117. The Commonwealth complies with 83 percent of the Settlement Agreement, meeting 97 out of 117 provisions. In January 2020, the Commonwealth of Virginia and the United States agreed upon a set of compliance indicators that address all provisions of the Settlement Agreement for which the Commonwealth was not yet found in compliance at the time of this joint filing. Of the 20 provisions that the Commonwealth is not yet in compliance with. The Commonwealth is 75 percent or more compliant with the indicators of 11 of them. With the exception of one provision with eight indicators, the remaining nine are lower percentages because there are only three or fewer indicators associated with that provision. DBHDS contends that all processes to come into compliance, with a focus first and foremost on a continuous quality improvement culture, are developed and operational within the agency. |