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January 24, 2017
Berkeley, CA – January 24, 2017 – The Berkeley Center for Independent Living (CIL), a non-profit organization and Wal-Mart have reached an agreement that represents the culmination of a three-year endeavor by Wal-Mart to develop a first-of-its-kind card reader payment device mount that provides even greater access for its customers with mobility disabilities. As part of … Continue reading » “Wal-Mart and Disability Advocates Reach Agreement on Card Reader Payment Device Mounts”
January 11, 2017
New Jersey has been sued over a shocking lack of special education for inmates.
January 11, 2017
High school students with disabilities are getting a sub-par education or no education at all while doing time in adult prisons.
January 11, 2017
Adult prisons in New Jersey are routinely violating the rights of incarcerated high school students with disabilities, with some teens getting no education whatsoever.
January 11, 2017
Youth with Disabilities in Adult Prisons Entitled to Special Education, Lawsuit Contends January 11, 2017 – Newark, NJ – Adult prisons in New Jersey routinely violate the rights of high school students with disabilities by denying them education, according to a federal class action lawsuit filed today. Some students in these prisons receive no education … Continue reading » “Incarcerated Students with Disabilities Sue New Jersey Over Denial of Education”
November 29, 2016
Dear DRA Family, The next several years are critical to men, women and children with disabilities. The quality of their lives is severely threatened. Many of their most fundamental protections—the hard earned gains over the last 25 years—are in great danger. DRA will play a pivotal role in determining whether these protections are dismantled or … Continue reading » “There has never been a more important time to support DRA.”
November 16, 2016
Less than 20% of subway stations and 10% of curb cuts in NYC are accessible to people with mobility disabilities. DRA attorney Rebecca Rodgers says, “Twenty-six years after the ADA, there is simply no excuse.”
November 3, 2016
“Eagle Awardees model disability inclusion and integration: innovating and setting precedents benefitting the disability community.” ―Mary-Lee Smith, DRA Interim Executive Director San Francisco, CA—November 3rd, 2016—Today, Disability Rights Advocates (DRA), the leading national nonprofit disability rights legal center, announced its 2016 Eagle Awardees: Michael Argenyi and his legal team, Jessica Cox, Nyle DiMarco and the … Continue reading » “Disability Rights Advocates Unveils 2016 Eagle Awardees”
October 27, 2016
More than half of New York City’s police stations aren’t accessible to people with mobility disabilities.
October 27, 2016
New York, NY—October 27, 2016—Today, an unprecedented class-action lawsuit was filed in federal court alleging that New York City’s police precincts are largely inaccessible to people with mobility disabilities in violation of the Americans with Disabilities Act. Disability Rights Advocates (“DRA”) filed the lawsuit on behalf of four individual plaintiffs who were unable to get … Continue reading » “NYPD Ignores Equal Access for Wheelchair Users”
