[nfbmi-talk] mrs nor mcb nor one stops compliant

Tue Aug 24 02:31:12 UTC 2010

Hi Joe,

I guess these laws are meaningless.  I thought the U.S. DOJ was supposed to
enforce them.  How about RSA?  Shouldn't they be doing something.  And then
there is that useless sycophant agency, MPAS and their spineless
Know-nothing people who sit in meetings and watch the Commission violate the
law and say nothing.  Why are the taxpayers paying all these people?  The
system is corrupt and bankrupt and no one is doing a thing, except the NFB.
We are using our funds that could be going to Braille literacy, science
camps, public education, for doing other people's work.  This is wrong.
Work they are being paid a lot of money to do.  What is the MPAS budget,
anyway?  They should be made to pay it all back.  They don't even call
people back, let alone protect or advocate.  Criminal, criminal I say.

Warm Regards,

Fred

-----Original Message-----
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On Behalf Of joe harcz Comcast
Sent: Monday, August 23, 2010 10:14 PM
To: NFB of Michigan Internet Mailing List
Subject: Re: [nfbmi-talk] mrs nor mcb nor one stops compliant

Actually that requirement is in the executive order naming him ADA 
coordinator. IIt is also his charge  under the Rehab Act to ensure that all 
one stops are fully accessable.

And let us not forget the effective communications requirements (i.e. 
requirement of all state and local entities to remit printed in in 
information in accessable formats appropriate to the needs of the individual

(ADA, Title II, subpart e, communications, primary consideration) and in a 
timely manner. This goes to documents on state web sites.

But, pick a law, any law and I bet you Cannon has violated it...At least 
when it comes to know obligations under the ADA, the Rehab Act, (IDEA aslo 
is at play including transitional services), the OMA, FOIA and of course PA 
260.

Those are documented and multiple violations over years by the way.

Oh, yes and again to the Rehab Act ... Has this agency ever held a required 
public hearing on its state plan updates since 1998> Nope. And it hasn't 
remittted required information even to the commission board or RSA in these 
regards either.

Joe
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Fred Wurtzel" <f.wurtzel at comcast.net>
To: "'NFB of Michigan Internet Mailing List'" <nfbmi-talk at nfbnet.org>; 
"'Lynnae Ruttledge RSA Commissioner'" <lynnae.ruttledge at ed.gov>
Cc: <Craig.McManus at ed.gov>
Sent: Monday, August 23, 2010 9:23 PM
Subject: Re: [nfbmi-talk] mrs nor mcb nor one stops compliant

> Hi Joe,
>
> This includes Commission meeting sites.  Think of Braille room numbers on
> hotel rooms, for example.  You are correct, the violations are legion. 
> Who
> is the state ADA coordinator, anyway.  Why doesn't the ADA Coordinator
> provide training to agencies like the Commission and DMB who lease or rent
> public spaces?  Someone ought to tell them.
>
> Warmest Regards,
>
> Fred
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nfbmi-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nfbmi-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org]
> On Behalf Of joe harcz Comcast
> Sent: Monday, August 23, 2010 5:34 PM
> To: Lynnae Ruttledge RSA Commissioner
> Cc: Craig.McManus at ed.gov
> Subject: [nfbmi-talk] mrs nor mcb nor one stops compliant
>
> April 28, 2010
>
>
>
>
>
> Note on Access Requirements Vocational Rehab
>
>
>
> This section of the Vocational Rehabilitation Act goes directly to
> accessibility of all Vocational Rehabilitation facilities including the
> Michigan Commission for the Blind, it also goes to all the various
> One-Stops.
>
>
>
> Yet, to this very date so many of Michigan's V.R. and related agencies 
> have
> issues of accessibility. One item comes strongly to my mind here and that 
> is
> the fact that raised character and Braille signage is woefully 
> non-compliant
> at the Victor office building and that includes both MCB, Michigan
> Rehabilitation Services, the Michigan Commission for Disabilities 
> concerns,
> and a wide variety of DELEG offices just to name a few. The raised 
> character
> and Braille signage requirement is a "program access" requirement of the 
> ADA
> and Section 504 referenced in these Vocational Rehabilitation Act Title I
> rules. My gosh how many parts of these acts have MRS, MCB, DELEG and
> predecessors violated over these many years on this access issue and
> requirement alone?
>
>
>
> I simply can't take a count of the egregious and intentional acts of
> discrimination in this regard over the years.
>
>
>
> It staggers the mind, but I have been vilified over and over again for
> pointing out the obvious violations of these civil rights requirements.
>
>
>
> Relevant section:
>
> Sec. 361.51 Standards for facilities and providers of services.
>
>
>
>    (a) Accessibility of facilities. The State plan must assure that
>
> any facility used in connection with the delivery of vocational
>
> rehabilitation services under this part meets program accessibility
>
> requirements consistent with the requirements, as applicable, of the
>
> Architectural Barriers Act of 1968, the Americans with Disabilities Act
>
> of 1990, section 504 of the Act, and the regulations implementing these
>
> laws.
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> Joe Harcz
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