[nagdu] Issue with guide dog in training and puppy raiser at hotel in GA
Marion Gwizdala
blind411 at verizon.net
Mon Jun 13 13:36:15 UTC 2011
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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