[nagdu] Issue with guide dog in training and puppy raiser at hotel in GA

[Marion Gwizdala]

Cheryl,
    In the state of Georgia, trainers of service dogs have the same rights 
of access as the disabled person. The law does not require the trainer be a 
professional trainer, only that the individual can "be identified as an 
agent" of the training program. Here is the relevant text of Georgia code
30-4-2 - 4

.

(2) Every person engaged in the training of a guide dog or service dog for 
the purpose of accompanying a person as provided in paragraph (1) of this 
subsection

shall have the same right to be accompanied by such dog being trained as the 
totally or partially blind person, deaf person, or physically disabled 
person

has under paragraph (1) of this subsection, so long as such trainer is 
identified as an agent or employee of a school for seeing eye, hearing, 
service,

or guide dogs.



If your friend would like to seek reimbursement of the fee that was charged, 
I would be happy to assist in this. Please have this person give me a call.

Fraternally yours,
Marion Gwizdala, President
National Association of Guide Dog Users (NAGDU)
National Federation of the Blind
813-626-2789
President at NAGDU.ORG
HTTP://WWW.NAGDU.ORG



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "cheryl echevarria" <cherylandmaxx at hotmail.com>
To: "nagdu" <nagdu at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Sunday, June 12, 2011 6:26 PM
Subject: [nagdu] Issue with guide dog in training and puppy raiser at hotel 
in GA


>I am keep name off, this had happed to a puppy raiser at my guide dog 
>school, she was staying in a hotel with her guide dog in training, and was 
>charged for the dog staying in her room.
>
> Puppies do not have the same access rights as the blind person with a 
> guide dog, she also said if she was blind would she have been charged the 
> money also, the man said yes, whether he fully understood the question, I 
> am sure in the state of GA that would have been frowned upon if that was 
> the case.
>
> But puppies are not under the same laws as us, if I understand correctly, 
> and up to the public facility to allow the guide dog in training in the 
> facility which wasn't the problem it was the fact that the woman was 
> charge for the dog in her room.
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