Legal Opinion
David B. v. Jess McDonald Director of the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided August 5, 1997No. 96-3729PublishedCited by 10 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
EASTERBROOK, Circuit Judge.
In 1981 the heads of three Illinois agencies — the Department of Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities, the Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS), and the State Board of Education— signed a consent decree promising to provide “appropriate” services to children, 17 years of age or less, who “[a]re in need of specialized services including, but not limited to child welfare, mental health and education.” A program called the Governor’s Youth Services Initiative (GYSI) coordinates the way these agencies deal with teenagers. In 1995 the legislature of…
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