Lawyers representing hundreds of men and woman who claim they were abused at New Hampshire’s youth detention center filed a class action lawsuit Friday seeking to prevent the independent administrator of the state’s settlement fund for victims from being replaced with a political appointee.
Lawmakers created the settlement fund in 2022, pitching it as a “victim-centered” and “trauma-informed” alternative to litigation that would be run by a neutral administrator appointed by the state Supreme Court. But the Republican-led Legislature changed that process through last-minute additions to the state budget approved Thursday and signed into law by Gov. Kelly Ayotte on Friday.
