In addition to procedural protections, the changes will ensure that a person is quarantined only when it's medically necessary, under the settlement, which was announced Thursday by the ACLU and private attorneys for Kaci Hickox.
Hickox was working with Doctors Without Borders in the west African nation during the Ebola outbreak. She was stopped when she arrived at Newark Liberty International Airport on Oct. 24, 2014, and quarantined. She later tested negative for Ebola and was allowed to go to Maine, where she lived at the time. She now lives in Oregon.
"We've achieved what was needed: procedures that will ensure that no one will have to go through what I experienced in New Jersey, and that no one will be quarantined unless it is medically necessary to do so," said Hickox. "The settlement upholds the principles and values of liberty and due process."
