Health and mental healthcare and juvenile justice (Virginia Department Of Juvenile Justice)
| Multi Request | Health and mental healthcare and juvenile justice |
| Submitted | May 23, 2023 |
| Est. Completion | None |
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From: Joshua Dankoff
To Whom It May Concern,
This is a request for records under your state public records law. I am requesting copies of public records regarding health and behavioural health service delivery in youth correctional facilities in your jurisdiction, to inform a comparative research project regarding health and mental health care delivery in juvenile detention facilities across the US. Specifically, I request information regarding the following:
1. Name and contact details for those responsible for health and behavioural health services provisions at all locations where juveniles are incarcerated within your jurisdiction.
2. Regulations, policies and procedures that govern the operation of health and behavioral health provision for juveniles incarcerated within your jurisdiction. This includes health intake, room confinement, medication management, access to specialist and dental services, discharge planning services, and other health and behavioral health related policies.
3. Contracts from January 1, 2021 to the time the request is filled between your agency and any healthcare provider including both physical health and behavioral health.
4. Records concerning your jurisdiction’s most recent application to Centre for Medicaid Services (CMS) for an 1115 Medicaid waiver (if applicable), and any response, with specifically focus on how and whether such a waiver applies to provision of Medicaid funded services for detained juveniles.
5. Records relating to financing for health and behavioural health care delivery in your jurisdiction.
I request the records be provided electronically. If there are any fees for searching or copying these records, please inform me. However, I would also like to request a waiver of all fees in that the disclosure of the requested information is in the public interest and will contribute significantly to the public’s understanding of the administration of juvenile justice. This information is not being sought for commercial purposes.
If access to the records I am requesting will take longer than allowed by statute, please contact me with information about when I might expect copies of the requested records.
If you deny any or all of this request, please cite each specific exemption you feel justifies the refusal to release the information and notify me of the appeal procedures available to me under the law.
Thank you for considering my request.
Sincerely,
Tess Kelly
Fellow, Harvard FXB Centre for Health and Human Rights
Joshua Dankoff
Director of Strategic Initiatives
Citizens for Juvenile Justice
617.338.1050
From: Muckrock Staff
To Whom It May Concern:
I wanted to follow up on the following Virginia Freedom of Information Act request, copied below, and originally submitted on May 23, 2023. Please let me know when I can expect to receive a response.
Thanks for your help, and let me know if further clarification is needed.
From: Virginia Department Of Juvenile Justice
Dear Ms Kelly,
I am responding to your Freedom of Information request of May 23, 2023 (received via the Muckrock.com website), in which you ask for copies of public records regarding health and behavioral health service delivery in youth correctional facilities within the jurisdiction of the Virginia Department of Juvenile Justice. DJJ operates a single Juvenile Correctional Center (JCC), located at Bon Air (see https://www.djj.virginia.gov/pages/residential/bon-air.htm for information about this facility).
You asked for:
1. Name and contact details for those responsible for health and behavioral health services. These can be found on our website at https://www.djj.virginia.gov/pages/rei/health-services.htm.
2. Regulations, policies and procedures that govern the operation of health and behavioral health provision, including health intake, room confinement, medication management, access to specialist and dental services, discharge planning services, and other health and behavioral health related policies. DJJ operates its JCC in conformity with the Virginia Administrative Code (https://law.lis.virginia.gov/admincode/title6/agency35/chapter71/). Parts VII and VIII of this chapter relate to health care services and behavior interventions respectively and are responsive to this component of your request. We have identified more than 70 additional documents that will also be responsive. Following Code of Virginia § 2.2-3704, we will require an additional seven working days to compile this information.
3. Contracts from January 1, 2021 to the time the request is filled between DJJ and any healthcare provider including both physical health and behavioral health. We have identified a number of documents responsive to this component of your request. Following Code of Virginia § 2.2-3704, we will require an additional seven working days to compile this information.
4. Records concerning DJJ’s most recent application to Centre for Medicaid Services (CMS) for an 1115 Medicaid waiver. There are no documents responsive to this component of your request.
5. Records relating to financing for health and behavioral health care delivery. We are not clear on what you are seeking in this component of your request. Could you please reply, stating whether you are seeking information about sources of financing (such as grants, for example) or whether your interest is in expenditure. Could you also please state what time period you are interested in.
We are able to provide the documents under items 2 and 3 electronically, as you request. However, we are already aware that our response to item 2 alone amounts to over 100Mb (mainly pdf files). Please respond indicating whether you wish to receive these as a CD-ROM rather than uploaded to the Muckrock website. Either way, we do not anticipate any charges for fulfilling your request.
Thank you for your attention to this matter.
From: Joshua Dankoff
Thanks so much for your assistance!
Please upload the documents to the muckrock website as suggested.
Thanks again,
Kind regards,
Tess
From: Muckrock Staff
To Whom It May Concern:
I'm following up on the following Virginia Freedom of Information Act request, copied below, and originally submitted on May 23, 2023. You had previously indicated that it would be completed on June 9, 2023. I wanted to check on the status of my request, and to see if there was a new estimated completion date.
Thanks for your help, and let me know if further clarification is needed.
From: Virginia Department Of Juvenile Justice
Further to our response of May 31, 2023, I have uploaded 71 files responsive to component (2) of your FoIA request of May 23, 2023, and ten files responsive to component (3).
Our earlier response asked you to clarify what you are seeking in component (5) of your request, and we are unable to proceed with addressing this until we hear from you.
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