Blake DowlingJuly 30, 2022
13min0
We all face challenges in our lives, all different and some more than others.
Tag: Americans with Disabilities Act
Blake DowlingJuly 30, 2022
Associated PressDecember 6, 2021
3min544
Presidential candidate wounded in World War II championed landmark disability rights legislation during congressional service.
Associated PressDecember 5, 2021
17min684
Dole announced in Feb. 2021 that he’d been diagnosed with stage 4 lung cancer.
Kelly HayesAugust 14, 2021
6min1106
U.S. Rep. Charlie Crist is urging federal officials to intervene in the state’s ban on school mask mandates, citing the Americans with Disabilities Act. In a letter sent to U.S. Department of Justice Secretary Merrick Garland and U.S. Department of Education Secretary Miguel Cardona, Crist pushes for the enforcement of disability rights laws and requests guidance for school districts […]
Renzo DowneyAugust 6, 2021
5min3313
The state is threatening action against school districts that require masks.
A.G. GancarskiJune 17, 2020
3min296
Discrimination takes many forms. An important one is targeted here.
Renzo DowneyFebruary 26, 20203min516
HB 1179 heads to the Senate after garnering unanimous House approval.
Janelle Irwin TaylorNovember 20, 2019
3min235
The bill would better accommodate persons with disabilities.
A.G. GancarskiOctober 8, 2018
2min336
After over five years of work by the City of Jacksonville to meet Americans with Disabilities Act goals, the city got the all-clear from the Department of Justice on Friday. The DOJ Civil Rights division wrote city officials, noting that the city had fulfilled the terms of its voluntary, pre-litigative Project Civic Access agreement. The agreement, per […]
Associated PressAugust 25, 2017
11min371
The Reflections treatment center looked like just the place for Michelle Holley’s youngest daughter to kick heroin. Instead, as with dozens of other addiction treatment centers in Florida, the owner was more interested in defrauding insurance companies by keeping his patients hooked, her family says. “It looked fine. They were saying all the right things […]