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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message -----
<DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A
title=LRovig@nfb.org href="mailto:LRovig@nfb.org">Rovig, Lorraine</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>To:</B> <A title=brian.frosh@senate.state.md.us
href="mailto:brian.frosh@senate.state.md.us">brian.frosh@senate.state.md.us</A>
</DIV>
<DIV><B>Sent:</B> Friday, February 24, 2012 6:24 PM</DIV>
<DIV><B>Subject:</B> SB 278 and SB 491</DIV></DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>
<DIV class=Section1>
<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: center" class=MsoNormal align=center><FONT size=4
face="Antique Olive"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Antique Olive'; FONT-SIZE: 14pt">KENNETH
CHRANE<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: center" class=MsoNormal align=center><st1:Street
w:st="on"><st1:address w:st="on"><FONT size=4 face="Antique Olive"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Antique Olive'; FONT-SIZE: 14pt">6839 PARSONS
AVENUE</SPAN></FONT></st1:address></st1:Street><FONT size=4
face="Antique Olive"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Antique Olive'; FONT-SIZE: 14pt">, <st1:PersonName
w:st="on">GW</st1:PersonName>YNN <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City
w:st="on">OAK</st1:City>, <st1:State w:st="on">MD</st1:State> <st1:PostalCode
w:st="on">21207-6423</st1:PostalCode></st1:place><o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: center" class=MsoNormal align=center><FONT size=2
face="Antique Olive"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Antique Olive'; FONT-SIZE: 11pt">E: <A
href="mailto:kenneth.chrane@verizon.net">kenneth.chrane@verizon.net</A>; H: 410
486 1569; C: 410 961 8122</SPAN></FONT><FONT size=4 face="Antique Olive"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Antique Olive'; FONT-SIZE: 14pt"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: center" class=MsoHeader align=center><FONT size=4
face="Berlin Sans FB"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Berlin Sans FB'; FONT-SIZE: 14pt"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT size=2 face=Arial><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">February 24, 2012<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT size=2 face=Arial><o:p> </o:p></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT size=2 face=Arial><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">Senator
Brian Frosh, Chairman<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT size=2 face=Arial><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">Judicial Proceedings
Committee<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT size=2 face=Arial><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">Room
2E, Miller Senate Office Building<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on"><FONT size=2
face=Arial><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">Annapolis</SPAN></FONT></st1:City>,
<st1:State w:st="on">MD</st1:State> <st1:PostalCode
w:st="on">21401</st1:PostalCode></st1:place><o:p></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT size=2 face=Arial><o:p> </o:p></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT size=2 face=Arial><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">Dear
Chairman Frosh:<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT size=2 face=Arial><o:p> </o:p></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT size=2 face=Arial><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">Please
support <B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">SB 278</SPAN></B> and <B><SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">SB 491</SPAN></B> in order to help me and all the
other blind citizens of <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:State
w:st="on">Maryland</st1:State></st1:place>. (BTW, my friend is helping me type
this letter as I dictate.)<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT size=2 face=Arial><o:p> </o:p></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><B><FONT size=2 face=Arial><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-WEIGHT: bold">SB
278<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></B></P>
<H4
style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt; MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0in; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in"><B><FONT
size=3 face="Times New Roman"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">State Government -
Human Relations - Discrimination in Housing, Employment, and Places of Public
Accommodation. </SPAN></FONT></B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal"> (Title
20, <I><SPAN style="FONT-STYLE: italic">Civil Rights
Commission</SPAN></I>)</SPAN><o:p></o:p></H4>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT size=2 face=Arial><o:p> </o:p></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT size=2 face=Arial><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">I use
the Internet to shop and look up all kinds of things. I can’t shop some online
stores because their web sites have unlabeled buttons or otherwise do not work
for screen access software that blind persons like me use. It is not hard to
make a website useful for us if the store programmers would just fix the system
at the start. <o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT size=2 face=Arial><o:p> </o:p></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT size=2 face=Arial><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">These
online websites need to be accessible. They are places of Public
Accommodation but in a manner of speaking I can’t get in.
<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT size=2 face=Arial><o:p> </o:p></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><B><FONT size=2 face=Arial><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-WEIGHT: bold">SB
491<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></B></P>
<H4
style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt; MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0in; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in"><B><FONT
size=3 face="Times New Roman"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Civil Rights -
Discrimination by a Place of Public Accommodation - Enforcement and Remedies.
</SPAN></FONT></B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal">(Title 20, <I><SPAN
style="FONT-STYLE: italic">Civil Rights
Commission</SPAN></I>)</SPAN><o:p></o:p></H4>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT size=2 face=Arial><o:p> </o:p></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT size=2 face=Arial><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">The
civil rights laws in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:State
w:st="on">Maryland</st1:State></st1:place> are nearly worthless to me unless I
have a way to get the police and the courts to enforce the laws. I am not
rich Rockefeller so I need help to convince places that serve the general public
to serve me EQUALLY. I feel very strongly about this. There are many times I
could tell you about that are just plain wrong, but I was too small potatoes to
get my rights and could not get the police to understand the situation either.
Please vote for this bill.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT size=2 face=Arial><o:p> </o:p></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT size=2 face=Arial><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">Yours
truly,<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT size=2 face=Arial><o:p> </o:p></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT size=2 face=Arial><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">Ken
Chrane<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT size=2 face=Arial><SPAN
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