{"id":279613,"date":"2026-06-27T02:30:54","date_gmt":"2026-06-27T02:30:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/279613\/"},"modified":"2026-06-27T02:30:54","modified_gmt":"2026-06-27T02:30:54","slug":"department-of-justice-memo-sparks-backlash-from-bronx-elected-officials-and-disability-advocacy-groups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/279613\/","title":{"rendered":"Department of Justice Memo sparks backlash from Bronx elected officials and disability advocacy groups"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On June 18, the Department of Justice released a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/olc\/media\/1446701\/dl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">memo<\/a> arguing that states aren\u2019t required to provide home and community-based services that keep disabled Americans out of institutions.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. Rep Ritchie Torres, who represents NY-15, sent a letter to the Department of Justice (DOJ) today urging the department to reconsider its opinion. <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"meta-box read-more-box\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bxtimes.com\/doj-memo-backlash-bronx-elect-officials-disability\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\t\tSee the full article at Bronx Times &#13;<br \/>\n\t\tDepartment of Justice Memo sparks backlash from Bronx elected officials and disability advocacy groups &#13;\n\t<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On June 18, the Department of Justice released a memo arguing that states aren\u2019t required to provide home&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":83580,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,107331,61917,59383,107332,38367,26083,15442,107333,9,24,22638,70274,63,107334,2567,2457,107335,129,131,130,1979,107336],"class_list":["post-279613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-bronx","tag-bronx-councilmen-ritchie-torres","tag-center-for-independence-of-the-disabled-new-york-cidny","tag-congress-member-ritchie-torres","tag-developmentally-disabled","tag-disabled","tag-doj","tag-fyi","tag-home-services","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-ny-15","tag-ny-15-15th-congressional-district","tag-nyc","tag-office-for-people-with-developmental-disabilities","tag-rep-ritchie-torres","tag-ritchie-torres","tag-sharon-mclennon-wier","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news","tag-veterans","tag-willow-baer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=279613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279613\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=279613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}