{"id":629410,"date":"2026-05-07T18:41:22","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T18:41:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/629410\/"},"modified":"2026-05-07T18:41:22","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T18:41:22","slug":"arc-of-montgomery-closes-due-to-noncompliance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/629410\/","title":{"rendered":"Arc of Montgomery closes due to noncompliance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Posted: May 5, 2026 3:23 PM CDT<\/p>\n<p>Updated: May 5, 2026 3:50 PM CDT<\/p>\n<p class=\"entry-meta post-author\">\n            by<br \/>\n            <a href=\"https:\/\/www.waka.com\/bios\/jamey-tucker\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">WAKA Action 8 News<\/a>        <\/p>\n<p>MONTGOMERY, Ala. (WAKA) \u2013 The Arc of Montgomery has abruptly shut its doors.<\/p>\n<p>The Arc of Alabama Executive Director Tim Cooper tells Action 8 News that the location on Buckingham Drive was closed by the Alabama Department of Mental Health for noncompliance of service contracts.<\/p>\n<p>Cooper says over the last several months, an investigation was initiated and the Montgomery chapter failed to respond, comply or make corrections.<\/p>\n<p>Cooper says the more than 100 people that were served by the location will be relocated for services either by other ARC chapters or other providers in the area.<\/p>\n<p>The Arc of Alabama and the Arc of the US has disaffiliated with the Montgomery chapter. The chapter must stop using the logo and name by June 4.<\/p>\n<p>Action 8 News has reached out to the Alabama Department of Mental Health for more information.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.waka.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Click here<\/a>\u00a0for more from WAKA.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Posted: May 5, 2026 3:23 PM CDT Updated: May 5, 2026 3:50 PM CDT by WAKA Action 8&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":629411,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[97,259,260],"class_list":["post-629410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mental-health","tag-health","tag-mental-health","tag-mentalhealth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=629410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629410\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/629411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=629410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=629410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=629410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}