The Times Record: News - Human Development Center Supporters Rally At Capitol

Disability Rights Center attorney Dana McClain said Tuesday her group is not seeking closure of all of the state's six human development centers. She said that under federal law, disabled people have a right to be served in the most integrated setting possible, but the state is not doing evaluations to determine whether the people in the human development centers need to be there. "If it (a lawsuit) results in the closure of an institution, it's because those individuals did not need to be there to begin with," she said.