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Ohio Department of Transportation ADA/504 Self Evaluation

4/30/2018

ODOT is pleased to announce it has completed an update of its ADA/504 Self Evaluation.   The document is now ready for review and/or comment from its stakeholders.

It is available at the following web link on Ohio LTAP’s webpage:

http://www.dot.state.oh.us/Divisions/Planning/LocalPrograms/LTAP/Documents/FinalDraftforPublication-Updated2018Self-Evalutation-withattachments.pdf

Please submit any comments by June 1, 2018, to either of the following:

Sarah E. Wade
[email protected]
ADA/504 Program Manager
ODOT Division of Opportunity, Diversity & Inclusion
1980 W. Broad Street, MS: 3270, Columbus, Ohio 43223
(p) 614.466.3979

Or:

Kristina Scales
[email protected]
ADA/504 & Title VI Specialist
ODOT Division of Opportunity, Diversity & Inclusion
1980 W. Broad St., MS: 3270, Columbus, Ohio 43223
(p) 614.466.5154

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Ohio Candidate forum on disability issues

4/26/2018

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Informing and Empowering Ohio’s Voters with Disabilities.

The Ohio Candidate Forum on Disability Issues will provide a format for the candidates for Ohio Governor and U.S. Senate to inform the disability community about their positions on disability-related issues/policy. Engagement with our elected officials about disability-related issues is important. It impacts policy matters affecting approximately two million Ohioans with disabilities, at least 13% of our state’s population.

When: Thursday, July 26, 2018, 12:30 - 4:30 p.m.

Location: Ohio State University Fawcett Event Center,
2400 Olentangy River Rd., Columbus, OH 43210

Moderator: Mr. Alan Johnson, (Retired) Columbus Dispatch Statehouse Reporter

Keynote: John D. Kemp, Esq., Life-long advocate and co-author of ADA.

Organizers: Ohio’s 12 Centers for Independent Living, The Ohio Statewide Independent Living Council, Ohio Area Agency on Aging, Disability Rights Ohio, Ohio League of Women Voters, The University of Cincinnati Center for Excellence in Development Disabilities (UCCEDD), Coalition on Homelessness and Housing in Ohio (COHHIO).

Note: Forum organizers do not make any endorsements or show any preference toward any candidates or political party. The 2018

Candidate Forum on Disability Issues constitutes nonpartisan voter education allowed under state and federal law.

FOR MORE INFORMATION:
The Center for Disability Empowerment
510 E. North Broadway, 4th Floor, Columbus, Ohio 43214 • 614-575-8055

Flyer for Ohio Candidate Forum on Disability Issues. Text of flyer was included in field above.

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Lawmakers Band Together To Defend ADA

4/17/2018

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by Michelle Diament | April 4, 2018
Democrats in the U.S. Senate are pushing back against legislation that would impose a waiting period before lawsuits could be filed over violations of the Americans with Disabilities Act. (Disability Scoop)

A letter signed by 43 Democratic senators urges Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., not to bring forward a bill known as the ADA Education and Reform Act, or H.R. 620.

The measure, which was approved by the House of Representatives in February, would require individuals who experience accessibility barriers at public businesses to submit written notice of the issues. Then, businesses would have up to 60 days to respond and another 60 days to start improvements.

Proponents of the legislation say that it would protect businesses from opportunistic lawsuits while giving proprietors time to correct problems.

Disability advocates counter, however, that businesses have had more than two decades to comply with the ADA and the proposed changes to the law would leave people with disabilities unable to access stores, restaurants, movie theaters and other spaces for months after flagging an accessibility violation.

“No American should be forced to endure discrimination for any length of time so that places of public accommodation may learn how to follow a seminal, bipartisan civil rights law that was enacted in 1990,” reads the Democrats’ letter sent to McConnell late last month. “Respectfully, we urge you to join us in supporting the rights of Americans with disabilities by making clear that H.R. 620, or similar legislation, will never receive a vote in the United States Senate during the 115th Congress.”

Since the bill passed the House, Senate leaders could choose to consider it at any moment. The Democrats say that if the bill is brought up, they will block it.

“We haven’t gotten any indications on timing, but since the Senate majority leader has the ability to bring it up for a vote anytime, Sen. Duckworth felt it was important to organize a filibuster-proof coalition of senators in opposition to the bill to make sure he understood it could not pass,” Sean Savett, a spokesman for the letter’s organizer, Sen. Tammy Duckworth, D-Ill., told Disability Scoop.

A representative for McConnell did not respond to questions about the letter or the bill.

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