ANNUAL REPORT | 2017-2018 our mission
The Legal Action Center (LAC) is the only non-profit law and policy organization in the United States whose sole mission is to fight discrimination against people with histories of addiction, HIV/AIDS, or criminal records, and to advocate for sound public policies in these areas. Since our founding in 1973, the Legal Action Center has worked to guard the civil rights and civil liberties of those we serve – and to dismantle discriminatory barriers that systematically deny these rights and liberties. Defending health coverage Maintaining Essential Health Benefits for Substance Use and Mental Health Care Advancing Parity Implementation and Enforcement Increasing Access to Treatment for Justice-Involved Individuals LAC Saved My Life: Jake’s Story
Defending patient privacy Confidentiality 10of Substance Use Disorder Treatment HIV and AIDS Privacy LAC Heard My Story: George’s Story
Defending access to opportunity Access to Employment Restoration16 of Rights LAC Led Me Home: Jaz’s Story
Letter From Board Chair and President 4 In the News 30 Our Board of Directors 22 5 Our Supporters 32 Our Staff 5 Summary of Our Financial Position 34 Our Approach 6 2017 Arthur Liman Public Interest Awards 35 Our Impact by the Numbers 8 LETTER From the Chair of the Board and the President & Director
o deny people their human rights is to deny them their very humanity.” This simple, yet powerful statement by Nelson Mandela resonates deeply with all of us at the Legal Action “T Center. Since our founding over four decades ago, LAC has always been and remains steadfastly committed to defending the civil and human rights of those we serve and pushing back against the many injustices our constituents face.
As you will read in this report, the Legal Action Center achieved an unprecedented number of legal and policy triumphs over the past year. A Through free legal services offered in our New York office, we defended thousands of individuals battling substance use disorders and/or living with criminal records and/or HIV/AIDS against discrimination in health care, employment, housing, education, and other basic needs.
Across the country, we partnered with hundreds of other social justice and advocacy organizations to strengthen our campaigns to promote equity in our health care and criminal justice systems.
Through impact litigation, we established important legal precedents that safeguard the civil rights and liberties of those we serve, including a landmark settlement with Aetna for breaching the HIV confidentiality of more than 13,000 of its members.
At the national, state and local levels, we advocated to protect access to health care, opportunity and justice for all. It is only because of the generosity of our supporters that we were able to achieve these important victories for our constituents. All of us at LAC are incredibly grateful to the many individuals, families, foundations, corporate sponsors and government agencies who stand with us in support of this vital work.
As we look toward the future, we know that there is much work to be done, and we pledge that the Legal Action Center will work relentlessly to safeguard the human rights and dignity of all we serve.
With gratitude,
Brad S. Karp Paul N. Samuels 4 Chair of the Board President & Director Brad S. Karp, Chair Mary Beth Forshaw, Vice Chair board Gerald Balacek Marc L. Miller Eric D. Balber Mark C. Morril of directors Elizabeth Bartholet Mary E. Mulligan Suzanne B. Cusack Debra Pantin Stephen M. Cutler Dr. Samuel K. Roberts, Jr. Dawn Dover Elizabeth M. Sacksteder Jason Flom Sharon L. Schneier Alexis Gadsden J. Edward Shaw Doug Liman John J. Suydam Elaine H. Mandelbaum Anthony C. Thompson Kamran Masood Hon. James Yates Michael Meltsner Richard Zabel
Arthur L. Liman, Founding Chair Daniel K. Mayers, Chair Emeritus staff Paul N. Samuels, President/Director Sherie V. Boyd Frank Murphy Anita R. Marton, Sr. Vice President Janet Coleman Sarah Nikolic Gabrielle de la Gueronniere Lionel Oglesby Sally Friedman Victoria Palacio Tracie M. Gardner Adela Prignal Norma Juarez Jessica Ramos Arianne Keegan Deborah A. Reid Katarina Leiser Jacqueline Seitz Robert B. Levy Vanessa Severino Stephanie McDaniel Crystal M. Seward Roberta Meyers Sebastian Solomon Phil Miller Kate Wagner-Goldstein Ellen Weber Monica Welby Abigail Woodworth Brent Yoshikami
5 our approach
In 2017, Legal Action Center (LAC) redoubled its efforts to fight discrimination against people with histories of addiction, HIV/AIDS, and/or justice involvement. In the last year, LAC secured many important victories – in legal precedents, in federal and state law, and in public awareness of essential rights afforded to people living with substance use disorders (SUD), HIV/AIDS, and criminal records. We are pleased to share some of the highlights of our efforts and the impact that 6 our work had on the lives of those we serve. POLICY COALITIONS & ADVOCACY COLLABORATIONS
We advocate at the national, We believe in the power of state, local and federal levels partnerships. By leading to change laws and regulations and working in coalition with that create barriers for millions of advocacy partners both people, to protect individuals from nationally and at the local level, discrimination, and to increase we magnify our voices and their access to opportunity through amplify our impact. policy reform.
EDUCATION & TRAINING
We provide training and resources to educate directly affected individuals, practitioners, attorneys, and policy-makers about existing and still needed civil rights and privacy protections for people with SUDs, HIV/AIDS and criminal justice involvement. O DIRECT IMPACT LEGAL LITIGATION SERVICES
We bring impact litigation to We provide free legal establish important legal precedents, services to approximately challenge systemic human or civil 2,000 New Yorkers rights violations, and expand the rights each year. In 2017, we and protections of those we serve. resolved 2,556 civil legal cases for people who otherwise might not have access to justice. 7 our 1,882 IMPACT by the numbers
Provided training and technical assistance in 32STates & DC —educating thousands of practitioners, policy-makers, attorneys, and directly affected individuals about the rights of people with addiction, criminal histories, HIV and AIDS.
8 Provided free legal services to 1,882 New Yorkers, resolving 2,556 civil legal cases for individuals who needed LAC’s help to access justice.
Settled a class-action suit on13,000 behalf of more than individuals whose health privacy was breached.
campaigns were led by LAC to improve policies and programs for people with mental health or substance 5use disorders, criminal records, or HIV/AIDS.
Cited in over 2,000 news stories, including all major media outlets and published 20 op-eds in support of our policy advocacy work. 9 Defending health coverage
s we continue to lose an unprecedented number of people to addiction and A suicide, LAC’s longstanding work to increase access to health care and coverage, and to ensure strong patient rights protections, has become ever more urgent. Last year, LAC led efforts to protect and enhance essential federal policies, including:
• Maintaining protections for addiction and mental health care coverage in federal law;
• Ensuring that mental health and substance use disorder coverage is equal to coverage for other health conditions; and
• Defending access to treatment for justice- involved individuals.
10 11 + PROTECTING ADDICTION AND MENTAL ADVANCING PARITY HEALTH COVERAGE AND CARE IMPLEMENTATION During the first several months of 2017, the LAC built upon our longstanding Legal Action Center (LAC) joined with health and leadership in the effort to ensure civil rights advocates from across the country to effective implementation of the defend key protections in the Affordable Care Act Mental Health Parity and Addiction against Congress and the new administration’s Equity Act. Along with our partners, proposed plans to repeal the health law. LAC’s we released a groundbreaking report, efforts focused strongly on defending coverage “Parity Tracking Project: Making Parity of substance use and mental health care and A Reality,” which concluded that the current on ensuring access to coverage for people with enforcement framework – which depends on histories of criminal justice involvement. consumers to complain about parity violations – is fundamentally flawed.The report reviewed Through our leadership and staffing of the Coalition findings from our research and offered for Whole Health, we also advocated for expanded recommendations for improving enforcement of Medicaid coverage and mechanisms that make the law. private insurance coverage more affordable for and accessible to people with mental health Our Parity Tracking report was or substance use problems. The full set of endorsed by the American Medical recommendations are available at Association, which later published https://lac.org/CWHConsensus a comprehensive article describing how the insurance barriers hinder Our recommendations reached policy-makers and effective parity implementation and key Washington audiences via two op-eds in The enforcement. Hill, the first co-authored by Ron Manderscheid and Paul Samuels, Co-Chairs of the Coalition for The findings from our Parity Tracking project Whole Health, and the second co-authored by Tom highlighted the need to jumpstart compliance McLellan, former Office of National Drug Control with the parity law in states across the country. Policy Deputy Director, and Paul Samuels. In 2017, we were proud to launch the Parity at 10 Campaign, a major multi-year national While the “repeal and replace” legislation was initiative to improve implementation and not enacted, LAC continues to work tirelessly to enforcement of the law. combat other policy and regulatory efforts to strip away essential health coverage from the people that we represent.
12 + Defending Access to Treatment LAC has been a leading voice in efforts to shift the criminal justice system to focus on health and treatment rather than punishment and incarceration. We made great strides in 2017 through our continued advocacy for increased access to medication- assisted treatment (MAT) for people involved in the justice system. Forcing people who Notably, LAC’s VP for Legal Advocacy, Sally Friedman, advised the U.S. Department of are in recovery from Justice (DOJ) about how criminal justice and child welfare agencies often prohibit addiction to stop the use of MAT. She shared LAC’s analysis of why such practices violate treatment makes no the Americans with Disabilities Act, which laid the groundwork for DOJ’s announcement sense. it violates in December 2017 that its Civil Rights Division had launched a new Opioid Initiative to remove people’s civil rights, discriminatory barriers to treatment. DOJ has since been investigating and settling cases in and it’s illegal. which people are prohibited from receiving life- saving MAT. We will continue In New York, LAC worked with the Drug to challenge this Policy Alliance (DPA) to launch a campaign advocating for the expansion of MAT discriminatory services in the New York State prison system. Our campaign kicked off with a practice until it ends. well-attended event and culminated with the State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision’s announcement of its plans to implement a new MAT pilot project for women in New York. In addition to our continued legal and policy advocacy, LAC brought two successful legal challenges on behalf of New Yorkers who were ordered by judges to stop treatment with Suboxone as a condition of probation.
13 “LAC Saved my life”
ake* had been in recovery from his opioid addiction for thirteen years when a judge ordered him to discontinue J his treatment with the medication Suboxone within 90 days or face incarceration.
When he called the Legal Action Center, he was terrified. In the past thirteen years, Jake had built a life that he loved. He had a supportive partner and a beautiful toddler to care for. He had a good job and a comfortable home. He was happy and healthy – and he didn’t want to lose it all by relapsing. He believed that discontinuing his treatment could cost him everything, and ultimately, might kill him.
Jake asked us if we could help him fight the order. He said: “For me, this drug has been a miracle. I know hundreds of people who can’t get into a clinic to get treatment. All they want is to get well and take care of their families like me.”
Working together with Jake’s pro-bono defender and pro- bono counsel from the law firm of Paul Weiss, we argued that making discontinuation of treatment a condition of Jake’s probation violated New York’s Penal Law and the federal Americans with Disabilities Act.
We prevailed on Jake’s behalf, and the court permitted him to continue taking his medication. He is proud to be coming up on his fourteenth year in recovery from addiction and is continuing to live a life the he loves.
Jake credits the Legal Action Center’s advocacy with saving his life. “LAC did everything for me. I am alive because of them.”
*Clients’ names are changed to protect their 14 confidentiality. Photos are not of actual clients. 15 Defending PATIENT PRIVACY
he past year brought many challenges to patient healthcare T privacy rights, and the Legal Action Center was at the forefront to defend them. As the opioid epidemic continues to escalate, and the numbers of people newly infected with HIV remains too high, we must do everything possible to encourage people to seek the care they need. Until we eradicate discrimination and stigma against people with these illnesses, it is critical to protect their right to confidential medical care.
16 17 Substance Use Disorder HIV and AIDS Confidentiality Confidentiality Since the dawn of the AIDS epidemic in the The Legal Action Center has long 1980’s, the Legal Action Center has advocated been the leading national expert for strong confidentiality protections and fought on the Federal Rule governing the against discriminatory laws and practices. In 2017, confidentiality of SUD records, we achieved one of our most significant legal known as “42 CFR Part 2” (or victories. . This rule provides extra “Part 2”) Working with the AIDS Law Project of protection for the privacy of substance Pennsylvania and Berger & Montague, use disorder patients in recognition of the P.C., a Philadelphia-based national increased risk of discrimination they may face class action firm, we from unauthorized disclosure of their treatment filed a federal
records. class action lawsuit against Aetna for violating the privacy rights of over As efforts to weaken patient 13,000 members who take HIV medication confidentiality regulations gained in at least 23 states by sending a mailing in traction in Congress, LAC led the envelopes that revealed information about the advocacy to ensure these critical members’ HIV medication in the envelopes’ large rights remain intact. We worked transparent windows. with partners to draft Consensus Our efforts succeeded. The case resulted in a , Principles on Patient Privacy Rights $17.1 million settlement. Aetna, Inc., is the third which were endorsed by over 100 leading largest health insurance company in the United treatment and recovery advocacy organizations. States, and the mailing is believed to be the LAC continues to lead advocacy efforts to ensure country’s largest data breach involving HIV privacy. that policy-makers, directly affected individuals, Aetna also agreed to implement a “best practices” and providers understand why maintaining strong policy to prevent similar incidents. patient confidentiality protections is critical to preventing harm and encouraging people to seek The litigation and LAC’s work in and maintain treatment. support of HIV confidentiality received widespread media coverage, from LAC’s Karla Lopez and Deborah Reid published the Washington Post and New York an article in Health Affairs Blog, “Discrimination Times to CNN and the BBC. This level against Patients with Substance Use Disorders of unprecedented coverage brought Remains Prevalent and Harmful: The Case for 42 attention not just to how important CFR Part 2,” which outlined numerous reasons privacy remains for people affected by HIV but, that 42 CFR Part 2 is as important today as unfortunately, to the level of stigma that continues when it was enacted in the 1970s. Paul Samuels to necessitate the work LAC pioneered at the very co-authored an op-ed for STATNews with the start of the epidemic. executive director of Faces & Voices of Recovery arguing that relaxing patient privacy rules would worsen the opioid epidemic.
18 Disclosure of HIV status is more than a technical violation of a law. It creates a tangible risk of violence, discrimination and other trauma. LAC will continue to fight tooth and nail to protect the confidentiality rights of people Living with HIV or AIDS.
19 headline of story goes in this space “LAC Heard My Story”
eorge’s* heart sank when he saw the envelope laying on the kitchen table of his shared apartment. Through Gthe oversized glassine window he saw that the letter was about his HIV medication – and he was worried that his roommate had seen it too.
George’s fear was confirmed later that day when his roommate returned to their apartment and refused to speak to him. Within the week, it seemed that the entire neighborhood knew his HIV status—and people approached him on the sidewalks and in restaurants to share what they had heard from his roommate.
When he contacted the Legal Action Center, George felt demoralized and angry. He wanted Aetna to be held accountable. He wanted justice for him and the 12,000 other people whose privacy had been exposed. “For the company, this is just a little mistake, but for me, their little mistake has devastated my entire life.”
LAC helped George obtain emergency financial relief from Aetna to cover his moving expenses and the cost of counseling he needed.
He said: “LAC heard my story, helped me get the care I needed, and made sure that I would be part of the case.”
When we called him four months later to tell him that Aetna had agreed to a $17 million settlement and to set up new “best practices” to prevent something like this from ever happening again, George was pleased, but reminded us that, “no amount of money will undo the harm caused by this breach.”
The large glassine window on the envelopes Aetna mailed to George and thousands of other members revealed confidential information about their HIV medications.
*Clients’ names are changed to protect their 20 confidentiality. Photos are not of actual clients. headline of story goes in this space
21 Defending access to opportunity
hrough impact litigation, education, and targeted policy T advocacy, LAC works to eliminate discriminatory barriers for the justice involved population and promote model policies and practices. This important work continued last year with many significant achievements. Through our multifaceted approach, bringing together litigation, direct legal services, policy advocacy and communications, LAC helped open the door to employment, housing and voting rights for people across the country.
22 23 Access to Employment Restoration of Rights LAC’s National H.I.R.E. Network Following nearly three decades of worked with the American Civil LAC advocacy for legislation to seal Liberties Union (ACLU) Trone criminal convictions, a New York Center for Justice & Equality on sealing law went into effect in late a report, “Back to Business: How 2017. The new law represents Hiring Formerly Incarcerated Job an important first step. It allows Seekers Benefits Your Company,” people who have not been convicted which documents the successful corporate of a crime within 10 years and have only two policies that give formerly-incarcerated convictions (only one of which is a felony) to seal Americans a fair chance at employment and their records for most crimes, so they can move on reentry. with their lives without the constant barriers of a criminal record. We also released an animated video to educate clients on LAC’s National H.I.R.E. Network also NY’s Certificates of Relief and collaborated with the Collateral Good Conduct. This two-part Consequences Resource Center, series, available in English the National Association of and Spanish, helps individuals Criminal Defense Lawyers, and the understand what Certificates of Relief National Legal Aid and Defender and Good Conduct are and who is eligible. Association to launch the newly These certificates create a presumption of expanded and fully updated Restoration of Rights rehabilitation and remove some legal barriers to Project, a state-by-state analysis of laws and employment for people with criminal records. practices relating to restoration of rights and status following arrest or conviction. We submitted an amicus brief in a case before the New York Court As part of our continued efforts to of Appeals, which addressed remove discriminatory barriers whether third parties that to housing, LAC and partners impose discriminatory conditions launched a Fair Chance Housing (i.e., flat felony bans) on “direct campaign in NYS and NYC, with employers” can be held liable. In a the goal of enacting legislation to significant victory, the Court found that non- protect people with criminal records employer entities can be held accountable from housing discrimination. when they impose on direct employers’
criminal record criteria that violate New York’s anti-discrimination laws.
24 25 “LAC led me home”
az’s* 3 ½ year old son had lived in homeless shelters for his entire J life. Now, for the first time, he has a place to call home this winter. When Jaz contacted the Legal Action Center, the New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) had denied her admission to public housing due to her 12-year-old criminal conviction. Despite the fact that she was hailed as an outstanding shelter resident who inspired others, had successfully completed countless vocational and rehabilitative programs, pursued higher education, and had been employed since her release from prison a few years earlier, NYCHA said she was a threat. The Legal Action Center helped Jaz file an appeal challenging NYCHA’s decision as arbitrary and capricious. Upon review, NYCHA reversed its decision, and Jaz and her son got their own apartment in public housing.
Jaz’s little boy still regularly asks her: “Are we going to my house?” She happily tells him: “That’s right. We’re going home.” Jaz tells us: “He knows the difference. He has his own bed. In the shelter we were sleeping in the same bed.” Finding her way home wasn’t easy for Jaz: “The NYCHA process was a nightmare. They make it so hard for you to get in. It’s set up as an obstacle course to see if you’re going to fall off or fail.”
Jaz wants people to know her story. She wants people to understand that there are countless barriers that keep people with criminal records from rebuilding their lives. They are frequently denied housing, employment, and other basic life needs as a result of discrimination. “A lot of people are going through what I went through, and might just say ‘Oh well, NYCHA denied me’ and don’t know that they can fight it. You know how important housing is nowadays. It’s cold out here.”
Jaz sent this photograph of her keys to her LAC attorneys on the day she received them. They still have incredible meaning for her.
*Clients’ names are changed to protect their 26 confidentiality. Photos are not of actual clients. 27 n e W S C O v e r a g e Legal Action Center was cited in more than 2,000 news stories, including all major media outlets, and published 20 op-eds in support of our policy advocacy work.
As the Legal Action Center’s National H.I.R.E. Network put it, “A criminal conviction should disqualify a job applicant only when there is a connection between the nature of the conviction and the nature of the job that creates a greater risk than hiring the applicant for other jobs.”
“People with HIV need to feel they can seek medical help without their private information being illegally shared with neighbors, family, etc,” said Sally Friedman, VP of Legal Advocacy at LAC. “...when an insurance company breaches confidentiality in this fashion, it can deter people from getting health care.”
“These findings present a compelling case for stronger enforcement of the Parity Act at the state and federal levels, and a new framework to ensure that insurers are complying with the law BEFORE they sell plans to consumers,” said Ellen Weber, Vice President for Health Initiatives at the Legal Action Center and Director of the Parity at 10 Campaign, an alliance of national and state advocates who aim to improve parity law compliance and enforcement.
“The emphasis continues to be punishment, so I think it’s very concerning,” said Gabrielle de la Gueronniere, director of policy for the Legal Action Center, a nonprofit organization that fights discrimination against people with a history of addiction. “We’re not really treating this as an illness. There’s a huge treatment gap.”
Legal Action Center Senior Attorney Kate Wagner- Goldstein says, “This law aims to give people the opportunity to overcome the stigma of a criminal 28 conviction.” n e W S C O v e r a g e “It was almost thirty years ago that Elena walked into our offices at the Legal Action Center looking for help. She had struggled with addiction many years before, during which time she worked as a prostitute in order to buy drugs and survive. She was arrested and incarcerated repeatedly for prostitution and petty crimes over the course of a few years on the streets. When Elena came to see us she had been in recovery for nearly a decade, and wanted to use her experience to help others find their path back from addiction. She had completed college and earned her degree in social work. But she could not get a license to practice due to her decades old criminal history” Op-ed by Paul Samuels about the client who inspired LAC’s three-decades long campaign for sealing of certain criminal convictions.
“It is not confidentiality protections that undermine the message that addiction is a chronic medical illness. Rather, it is arresting, prosecuting, and incarcerating people because of their illness; it is removing parents’ children from their care because of their illness; it is laws that make it legal to fire someone or deny them housing because they suffer from this illness; it is the lived experience of patients who face discrimination from their healthcare providers, insurers, and communities on the basis of their illness – that actually weakens the perception of substance use disorder as a chronic disease.” Article in Health Affairs Blog by Legal Action Center Senior Attorneys Karla Lopez and Deborah Reid.
The current policy “is as essential now as it ever was, not just to protect the privacy of substance use disorder patients in this age of constant data breaches, but also making people in need of care feel safe enough to go into treatment,” said Paul Samuels, president of the Legal Action Center, a non-profit that fights discrimination against people with addiction and HIV/AIDS.
“We have a sentencing problem that has long been a powerful contributor to America’s drug problem, because it locks people up and denies them the treatment that they need.” Op-ed in The Hill by Tracie Gardner, VP of Policy Advocacy at LAC. 29 financials
STATEMENT OF ACTIVITIES AND CHANGES IN NET ASSETS (UNRESTRICTED) FOR FISCAL YEAR 2018 AND 2017 (MARCH – APRIL)
2018 2017 REVENUES Government contracts 1,705,286 1,799,300 Contributions and special events 1,045,223 1,130,542 Foundations and corporation 2,487,227 2,167,212 Publication and consultation 24,735 59,394 Member fees and miscellaneous 615,176 293,301 In-kind contributions 396,213 177,380 Total revenues 6,273,860 5,627,129
EXPENSES Program services 4,985,535 4,232,987 Management and general 779,686 653,418 Fundraising 471,328 500,186 Total Expenses 6,236,549 5,386,591
CHANGE IN NET ASSETS 37,311 240,538 Net Assets - Beginning of Year 598,906 358,368 30 Net Assets - End of Year 636,217 598,906 financials 2017 benefit The Arthur Liman Public Interest Awards Benefit, begun in 1998, supports LAC’s work and honors the memory and continues the legacy of LAC’s Founding Chairman, Arthur L. Liman. Honorees are recognized for outstanding accomplishments in their fields and exceptional contributions to social justice in LAC’s areas of focus.
Senator Cory Booker received the Edward J. Davis Community Service Award for his leadership on criminal justice reform, including his advocacy for sentencing reforms and for spearheading legislation to make the hiring process fairer for the formerly incarcerated. Raymond J. McGuire, Global Head of Corporate and Investment banking at Citi, received the Arthur Liman Public Interest Award for his strong commitment to community service. In addition, we recognized Paul N. Samuels, the Legal Action Center’s Director and President, for his 25+ years leading LAC on a range of criminal justice, substance use, and HIV legal and policy issues.
31 Our SupporTErs AC gratefully acknowledges the following foundations, organizations, and individuals who gave $1,000 or more to support Lour work in 2017. We also acknowledge the many supporters who gave smaller amounts, chose not to be listed, or who gave their time and expertise to us. Every gift is immeasurably valued, and we are honored and humbled to have such deep and broad support.
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