Inland Northwest Behavioral Health settles ADA violation claims [Video]

SPOKANE, Wash. — The United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Washington announced on Thursday that Inland Northwest Behavioral Health has reached a settlement agreement after it was investigated for alleged violations of Title III of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). 

The facility will take remedial measures over the next two years and pay $10,000 in compensatory damages. 

According to a press release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office, a former patient of Inland Northwest Behavioral Health claimed 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 with the service animal. 

Inland Northwest Behavioral Health cooperated with the investigation after …