The Review Panel issued formal recommendations to New York State on the implementation of the Willowbrook Consent Decree. If the State chose not to accept the recommendation, the matter was decided by the U.S. District Court judge assigned to the Willowbrook case.
This series contains correspondence, reports, and court documents related to the Review Panel's formal recommendations. Each recommendation has its own folder, and folders are arranged chronologically by recommendation date. The first 22 recommendations issued by the Panel were numbered in the original filing scheme, but subsequent recommendations were not. The second box contains an index, written in late 1978, for recommendations 1-22, including a summary and outcome for each recommendation. Selected files are restricted because they contain information about specific named residents of Willowbrook and other state developmental centers. These restricted folders are noted below in the box and folder list.