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<DIV>Thought this would be of interest.</DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial'; COLOR: #000000">Sincerely,
<BR>Melissa R Green and Pj<BR></DIV>
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<DIV style="font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=coagdu@nfbnet.org
href="mailto:coagdu@nfbnet.org">NAGDU President via COAGDU</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, December 5, 2018 5:11 PM</DIV>
<DIV><B>To:</B> <A title=nagdu@nfbnet.org href="mailto:nagdu@nfbnet.org">NAGDU
Mailing List,the National Association of Guide Dog Users</A> ; <A
title=coagdu@nfbnet.org href="mailto:coagdu@nfbnet.org">'Colorado Association of
Guide Dog Users List'</A> ; <A title=flagdu@nfbnet.org
href="mailto:flagdu@nfbnet.org">flagdu@nfbnet.org</A> ; <A
title=njagdu@nfbnet.org href="mailto:njagdu@nfbnet.org">New Jersey Association
of Guide Dog Users</A> ; <A title=nyagdu@nfbnet.org
href="mailto:nyagdu@nfbnet.org">nyagdu@nfbnet.org</A> ; <A
title=oagdu@nfbnet.org href="mailto:oagdu@nfbnet.org">oagdu@nfbnet.org</A> ; <A
title=txagdu@nfbtx.org href="mailto:txagdu@nfbtx.org">txagdu@nfbtx.org</A> ; <A
title=micgdu@nfbnet.org href="mailto:micgdu@nfbnet.org">Michigan Guide Dog Users
Committee List</A> ; <A title=vagdu@nfbnet.org
href="mailto:vagdu@nfbnet.org">vagdu@nfbnet.org</A> ; <A
title=blindtlk@nfbnet.org
href="mailto:blindtlk@nfbnet.org">blindtlk@nfbnet.org</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Cc:</B> <A title=blind411@verizon.net
href="mailto:blind411@verizon.net">NAGDU President</A> ; <A
title=marion.gwizdala@verizon.net
href="mailto:marion.gwizdala@verizon.net">marion.gwizdala@verizon.net</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Subject:</B> [COAGDU] Video of Counterfeit Service
Animal</DIV></DIV></DIV>
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The National Association of Guide Dog Users believes the best way to STEM the
use of counterfeit service animals is through education. This education includes
helping public entities and private entities providing public accommodations
learn how to evaluate whether a dog is a legitimate service dog or a
counterfeit. Because documentation can be purchased for a exhorbitant fee with
no proof required that the dog has been trained, the guidance from the United
States Department of Justice prohibits entities from requiring such
documentation, relying instead upon what is known as “credible assurance. Such
credible assurance is obtained by asking the following
questions:<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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style='FONT-FAMILY: "Verdana","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></SPAN> </P>
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style='FONT-FAMILY: "Verdana","sans-serif"'><SPAN
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</SPAN></SPAN></SPAN><SPAN style='FONT-FAMILY: "Verdana","sans-serif"'>Is this a
service dog required because of a disability?<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=repoffice style="BACKGROUND: #e0e0e0; MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><SPAN
style='FONT-FAMILY: "Verdana","sans-serif"'>What work or tasks has the dog
been trained to perform?<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=repoffice style="BACKGROUND: #e0e0e0; MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><SPAN
style='FONT-FAMILY: "Verdana","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></SPAN> </P>
<P class=repoffice style="BACKGROUND: #e0e0e0; MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><SPAN
style='FONT-FAMILY: "Verdana","sans-serif"'>The implementing regulations
concerning service animals under Titles II & III of the Americans with
Disabilities Act are attached to this message.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=repoffice style="BACKGROUND: #e0e0e0; MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><SPAN
style='FONT-FAMILY: "Verdana","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></SPAN> </P>
<P class=repoffice style="BACKGROUND: #e0e0e0; MARGIN-LEFT: 0in"><SPAN
style='FONT-FAMILY: "Verdana","sans-serif"'>Most guide and other service dog
users do not mind answering the questions that are allowed by law and can do so
credibly. Most guide and other service dog users will generally not produce
documentation for their service dogs. <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=repoffice style="BACKGROUND: #e0e0e0; MARGIN-LEFT: 0in"><SPAN
style='FONT-FAMILY: "Verdana","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></SPAN> </P>
<P class=repoffice style="BACKGROUND: #e0e0e0; MARGIN-LEFT: 0in"><SPAN
style='FONT-FAMILY: "Verdana","sans-serif"'>
We want to provide you with a video of a person apparently attempting to pass
her pet off as a service dog in order to gain access to Tulsa Drillers Oneok
Field in Tulsa Oklahoma by presenting documentation from United States Service
Dog Registry which she refers to as USSDR. She cannot credibly answer the
legally allowed questions and continually asserts the dog provides emotional
support, something the implementing regulations specifically state does not
qualify as a service dog. The staff person knows and understands the difference,
asking her several times what tasks or work the dog has been trained to perform.
All the woman in the video can state is that the dog provides emotional support,
has undergone 120 hours of training (something the staff member knows is not
sufficient to train a service dog), and presents the phony USSDR identification
card. This woman attempts to intimidate the staff member but he holds fast to
his denial and refunds the woman’s admission fee. All we can say is “Kudos!” to
the unidentified staffer for turning away this counterfeit service animal. We
wish more businesses would assert their rights under the ADA by denying access
to the counterfeiters who attempt to appropriate our civil rights which put our
legitimate service dogs at risk due to lack of training and cause those of us
with legitimate service dogs to be questioned more frequently. Click on this
link to view the video inaccurately entitled, “Tulsa Drillers Oneok Field Denies
Access to Woman AND Her Trained Service Dog”, since no evidence is offered in
the video that the dog is truly trained.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=repoffice style="BACKGROUND: #e0e0e0; MARGIN-LEFT: 0in"><SPAN
style='FONT-FAMILY: "Verdana","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></SPAN> </P>
<P class=repoffice style="BACKGROUND: #e0e0e0; MARGIN-LEFT: 0in"><SPAN
style='FONT-FAMILY: "Verdana","sans-serif"'>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4X-DnPfLo4&feature=youtu.be<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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For more information about guide and other service animals or the National
Association of Guide Dog Users, please visit our website<o:p></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><o:p></o:p> </P>
<P class=MsoNormal><A
href="http://nagdu.org">http://nagdu.org</A><o:p></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><o:p></o:p> </P>
<P class=MsoNormal>With warm regards,<o:p></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal>Marion Gwizdala, President<o:p></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal>National Association of Guide Dog Users Inc.
(NAGDU)<o:p></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal>National Federation of the Blind<o:p></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal>(813) 626-2789<o:p></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal>President@NAGDU.ORG<o:p></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><A href="http://nagdu.org/">Visit our
website</A><o:p></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><A href="http://twitter.com/nagdu">Follow us on
Twitter</A><o:p></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal>The National Federation of the Blind knows that blindness is
not the characteristic that defines you or your future. Every day we raise
expectations because low expectations create barriers between blind people
and our dreams. You can live the life you want! Blindness is not what holds you
back.<o:p></o:p></P>
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