TEXAS (KWTX) — The United States Department of Justice asked a federal court Tuesday to dismiss a case that required Texas to reform 13 state facilities for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities.

The Civil Rights Division said Texas successfully completed years of court-ordered changes designed to protect residents from harm and provide better clinical care and education services, according to the United States Department of Justice.

“We commend Texas for its tremendous progress in implementing this decree and its commitment to upholding the federal rights of people with intellectual disabilities living in state care,” Assistant Attorney General Harmeet K. Dhillon of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division said.

The case began with a Justice Department investiga

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