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  • Title: Lawsuit charges New York City is denying basic AIDS services.
    Journal: AIDS Policy Law; 1995 Mar 24; 10(5):7-8. PubMed ID: 11362262.
    Abstract:
    Three AIDS advocacy groups have filed suit against New York City's Division of AIDS Services. This suit is the first of its kind to charge that a government agency failed to meet the American's with Disabilities Act's (ADA) requirement of equal access to benefits and services. Thousands of people are going without basic services such as food, shelter and medical care because of budget and staff cuts (cuts as high as 27 percent in the past year, while caseloads have risen by 20 percent). Mayor Rudolph Giuliani cut the budget of the Division of AIDS Services to $57.4 million from $72.7 million as part of a plan to improve services by reducing the workforce--called redeployment. The lawsuit claims the reductions in staff have left the agency in a state of institutional chaos, resulting in the effective denial to plaintiffs of essential programs, services and benefits. The lawsuit states that the city violated Title II of the ADA; Section 504 of the Federal Rehabilitation Act of 1973; and Article 17, Sections 1 and 3, of the New York State Constitution. The lawsuit also contends that state officials failed to supervise the city's social service programs and asked the court to enjoin the city from further reducing staff at the Division of AIDS services and from altering the structure and functions of the agency without court review.
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