October 12, 2024 Sandra Kinney # U.S. Attorney’s Office Reaches Settlement with Inland Northwest Behavioral Health to Ensure Compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act
Spokane, WA – Vanessa R. Waldref, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Washington, announced that Inland Northwest Behavioral Health has agreed to take remedial measures over the next two years and pay ten thousand dollars in compensatory damages to resolve alleged violations of Title III of the Americans with Disability Act (ADA).
A former patient of Inland Northwest Behavioral Health alleged that he was required to provide documentation of a service animal in violation of the ADA’s requirements, that he was not allowed to conduct visitation indoors with the service animal, and that he was segregated from other patients of Inland Northwest Behavioral Health while utilizing the service animal.
Inland Northwest Behavioral Health fully and promptly cooperated with the investigation and agreed to take concrete remedial measures to comply with the ADA.