Below is more information about the agency, including who leads it, how many staff the department employs, and what it does.
FAST FACTS
Budget: The FY 2024-2025 budget bill appropriated $2.4 billion for the Agency for Persons with Disabilities, with an estimated $94 million IT budget, according to the Center for Digital Government.*
Leadership: Sriram Kommu is the agency’s deputy chief information officer.
Staff: The agency has about 2,753 total positions, according to Senate Bill 5001, the Senate’s General Appropriations Act for Fiscal Year 2024-2025.
MORE ABOUT THE AGENCY
“In October 2004, the Agency for Persons with Disabilities became an agency separate from the Department of Children and Families, specifically tasked with serving the needs of Floridians with developmental disabilities,” the agency’s website states.
Before that, APD existed as the Developmental Disabilities Program. Today, APD supports individuals with developmental disabilities and their families by identifying appropriate social, medical, behavioral, residential and therapeutic services.
As for technology, SB 5001 outlines the following funding for the agency:
- $814,750 and $2,711,250 have been allocated to APD to procure a replacement for its incident management system.
- $1,880,963 and $1,880,962 have been allocated to APD to continue implementing and enhancing its iConnect system, which provides electronic visit verification of service delivery to recipients by providers and electronic service authorizations for developmental disabilities Medicaid waiver services.
- Lastly, $1 million will go toward contracting with an independent software quality assurance and testing provider to assess APD’s iConnect project by March 1, 2025.
*The Center for Digital Government is a division of e.Republic, the parent company of Industry Insider — Florida.
