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Tuesday, February 28, 2012

 

Did You Miss These Disability Announcements?

If you received this email as a forward but would like to be added to the White House Disability Group email distribution list, please visit our website at http://www.whitehouse.gov/disability-issues-contact and fill out the " contact us " form in the disabilities section, or you can email us at disability@... and provide your full name, city, state, and organization.

Monthly White House Disability Group Call- February 29Tomorrow, February 29, we invite you to join our next monthly update call.

Date of Call: 2/29/2012

Start Time: 3:00 p.m. EST (dial in 5 minutes early)

Dial in:

Code: “White House Monthly Disability Call”

For live captioning, at the start time of the event, please login by  clicking on the link below. Please only use this feature if you are deaf or hard of hearing. http://www.fedrcc.us//Enter.aspx?EventID=1907398 & CustomerID=321

Community Leader Briefing with The ArcFor the last year the White House has opened its doors to community leaders across the country and offered for organizations to bring their leaders to Washington D.C. for a briefing.

The Arc recognized this opportunity and asked to organize an event and bring 150 of their leaders from across the country in for a briefing. The Arc's CEO wrote a guest blog about the event for the disabilities blog on Whitehouse.gov: http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2012/02/23/big-surprise-arc-visits-white-house

The briefing was a major success, not just for the Arc, but for all persons with disabilities.  The speakers spoke about issues facing all Americans with disabilities, their family members and all Americans who care about these important issues.

 And, the highlight of the day was the President's surprise visit, in which he delivered a message for the entire disability community.  You can view his remarks at: http://www.whitehouse.gov/photos-and-video/2012/02/10/president-obama-speaks-briefing-arc

You can view the entire live streamed portion of the event at:Community Leaders Briefing with The Arc: Part 1

Community Leaders Briefing with The Arc: Part 2 

Other Recent Announcements

Other recent significant announcements you might have missed include the Department of Justice, The White House, the Department of Transportation, and the Department of Housing addressing civic access, high standards for students with disabilities, civil rights for air travelers, and fair housing for homebuyers with disabilities.

Justice Department Signs Agreement with the City of Humboldt, Kansas, to Ensure Civic Access for People with Disabilitieshttp://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/2012/February/12-crt-183.html

Justice Department Signs Agreement with the City of Humboldt, Kansas, to Ensure Civic Access for People with Disabilities Department announced an agreement with the city of Humboldt, Kan., to improve access to all aspects of civic life for individuals with disabilities. The agreement was reached under Project Civic Access (PCA), the department’s wide-ranging initiative to ensure that cities, towns and counties throughout the country comply with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). The department has now reached 197 agreements under the PCA initiative, improving access to civic life for more than four million individuals with disabilities nationwide.

President Obama Announces Waivers for 10 Stateshttp://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2012/02/09/remarks-president-no-child-left-behind-flexibility

President Obama announced that ten states that have agreed to implement bold reforms around standards and accountability will receive flexibility from the burdensome mandates of the federal education law known as No Child Left Behind (NCLB). In exchange for this flexibility, these states have agreed to raise standards, improve accountability, and undertake essential reforms to improve teacher effectiveness. The ten states approved for flexibility are Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Jersey, Oklahoma, and Tennessee.

DOT Fines Allegiant Air for Violating Airline Disability, Price Advertising Ruleshttp://www.dot.gov/affairs/2012/dot2512.html

The U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) fined Allegiant Air $100,000 for violating rules protecting air travelers with disabilities, as well as the Department’s rule for full-fare advertising. Under DOT’s rule, carriers must sort disability-related complaints into categories based on the type of disability and nature of the complaint and submit an annual report to the Department on disability complaints received the previous year. These ads violated the Department’s rule requiring ads for airfares to identify the existence and amount of government-imposed taxes and fees at the first point a fare is displayed and to include in the initial fare quotes appearing on the website all carrier-imposed fees that passengers must pay to make on-line bookings.

HUD Charges Bank of America with Discriminating Against Homebuyershttp://portal.hud.gov/hudportal/HUD?src=/press/press_releases_media_advisories/2012/HUDNo.12-036

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) announced that it is charging Bank of America with discriminating against homebuyers with disabilities. HUD alleges that Bank of America imposed unnecessary and burdensome requirements on borrowers who relied on disability income to qualify for their home loans and required some disabled borrowers to provide physician statements to qualify for home mortgage loans. The Fair Housing Act makes it illegal to discriminate in the terms and conditions of a loan to an individual based on a disability, including imposing different application or qualification criteria, and makes it illegal to inquire about the nature or severity of a disability except in limited circumstances not applicable here. 

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