Year of ADA’s 25th Anniversary Continues with Settlement with San Juan County, New Mexico The Justice Department today announced a Project Civic Access (PCA) agreement with San Juan County, New Mexico (County), to improve access to all aspects of civic…
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Galveston County, Texas: DOJ Reaches Settlement Agreement to Ensure Access for Persons with Disabilities
DOJ Reaches Settlement Agreement to Ensure Access for Persons with Disabilities in Galveston County, Texas The Justice Department today announced a Project Civic Access (PCA) agreement with Galveston County, TX (County), to improve access to all aspects of civic life…
Justice Department Files Statements of Interest in Title III and Section 504 Lawsuits against Harvard and MIT
Justice Department Files Statements of Interest in Title III and Section 504 Lawsuits against Harvard and MIT The Justice Department announced that it has filed Statements of Interest in two private cases pending in the United States District Court for…
Feds readying movie theater regulations for blind and deaf patrons
Feds readying movie theater regulations for blind and deaf patrons By Julian Hattem 09/14/13 The Obama administration is nearing completion of a proposal to require that movie theaters offer technology so blind and deaf people can go to the cinema.…
Updates from The White House – July 2013
From the White House Blog: Landmark Treaty For The Visually Impaired In April, 2012, President Obama expressed the United States’ commitment to a treaty that “ensures that copyright is not a barrier to equal access to information, culture, and education…
Solitary Watch Reports on Abuse of Deaf & Disabled Prisoners
Deaf Prisoners in Florida Face Abuse and Solitary Confinement May 21, 2013 By James Ridgeway and Jean Casella In the a Florida prison called the Reception and Medical Center, a corrections officer appears at a cell door and begins mocking…