Nurse asks about settlements versus administrative closures
Nurse asks how many disability cases are resolved by settlement versus administrative closure. Rivera says FY26 had 22 disability settlements and 59 administrative closures, and explains reasons like inability to locate complainants, withdrawal, or lack of public interest.
Okay, I want to just touch a little bit on resolution and timelines.
For CCHR, when you have disability-related cases, can you talk about how many of those are resolved via settlement versus administrative closure?
Absolutely.
So physical year 26, we settled 22 cases that had disability listed
as a protected class in the complaint, but could also have additional protected classes alleged in the complaint as well.
So that does include even ones that are just disability as well.
Compared to, I'm sorry, administrative closures you mentioned?
Yeah, which ones were settlements versus administrative closure and what kind of circumstances would lead to an administrative closure versus another means of resolution?
Absolutely.
So we had 59 cases that were administratively closed last fiscal year, fiscal year 26.
Administrative closures, the reasons are really outlined in our statute.
So they're really going to focus on we can have anything from we're unable to locate a complainant after multiple attempts.
We may need to close that matter.
If a complaint is being withdrawn, they might have entered into private settlement or decided they wanted to file in a different forum.
So that's also an option in the administrative closure.
reserves that individual's right to pursue that claim in another forum.
And then we have other instances where if it's not in the public interest to pursue that case, we see this a lot with small landlords and small businesses.
Complainants want to maintain good relationships with those owners, right?
They're often living in the same building as them.
Or it can be something where we believe that there isn't sufficient resources to find a probable cause determination.
And so I know historically we've really overutilized administrative closures in that instance.
And so we're really focusing on shifting gears and making sure that complainants have a real answer about one way or the another about the status of their complaint and why it may or may not reach probable cause determination.