Keokuk County v. H.B.

CADY, Justice.

This ease places a county and the state government at odds over the administrative and financial care of mentally disabled persons in Iowa. The county instituted an action in district court to resolve the controversy. We conclude the county failed to exhaust its administrative remedies and reverse the judgment entered by the district court.

H.B. is the mentally disabled individual at the center of the dispute. He is thirty-one years old and has received social security disability benefits based upon his mental disability since he was ten years old. H.B. resided in a variety of…