[nfbmi-talk] Fw: ada 504 oma foia request for information

Sat Jun 25 00:34:40 UTC 2011

----- Original Message ----- 
From: joe harcz Comcast 
To: Marlene Malloy 
Sent: Friday, June 24, 2011 8:32 PM
Subject: Re: ada 504 oma foia request for information

Dear Ms. Malloy,

By the way you and/or the MRC. has not even notified the independent commission about these things and that is namely the Michigan Commission for the Blind board. That includes the whole board and that does not mean the DSA, or the Director Patrick Cannon, or whomever on the inside. That includes the entire dully constituted board of the Michigan Commission for the Blind about all of these issues. 

These Governor appointed and Michigan senate confirmed public officials dully delegated by PA 260 and authorities granted by not only that act but, also of course throughout  the very Rehabilitation Act of 1973 of which your agency is authorized, and MCB for that matter and by which both are federally funded.

Both MRS and MCB are to be consumer driven and controlled and not by the scofflawism of your or other individuals ad hoc actions.

Moreover, I as an individual with a sensory disability have at a minimum under law including those federal civil rights laws cited the right to timely and accessible information.

You have violated all of these fundamental principles with your terse and arrogantly paternalistic and illegal  and non-response here.

Tyler v. Manhattan as but one case citation requires Title II entities to act affirmatively and not on an ad hoc basis for meeting both responses to access to information but also physical access.

Man, once again the ADA is twenty years old and you are violating it right here but also even the other laws you cite.

It is time for you and the likes of you to resign.

When will the Vocational Rehabilitation agencies of this great country the very agencies delegated and funded to serve people with disabilities begin to follow the very access and civil rights laws of the very people they are required to serve?

These programs are not for the benefit of a few benighted and priveledged, mostly non-disabled hacks sucking federal and state taxpayer's monies at the trough. They are meant to liberate we people with disabilities!

sincerely,

Paul Joseph Harcz, Jr.
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Marlene Malloy 
  To: joe harcz Comcast 
  Cc: Luke Zelley TDN ; nfbmi-talk at nfbnet.org ; Jo Anne Pilarski MCB, Chair ; Larry Posont ; lydia schuck ; John Scott MCB, Commissioner ; Patrick Cannon MCB Director ; Joe Sibley ; Porter, Jaye (DELEG) ; LOU ADAMS ; executive_committee at mrccouncil.org 
  Sent: Friday, June 24, 2011 6:10 PM
  Subject: RE: ada 504 oma foia request for information

  Mr. Harcz, I have received your request for the complete June 3, 2011 MRC minutes and any written reports and corollary information related to a possible consolidation of the Michigan Commission for the Blind with the Michigan Rehabilitation Services. Your request is being processed and you should expect receipt of the afore mentioned documents in Word format within the 20 business days (which is July 20th, 2011) required under FOIA.

  Marlene S. Malloy

  Executive Director

  Michigan Rehabilitation Council

  3490 Belle Chase Way, Suite 110

  Lansing, MI 48911

  517.887.9370

  877.335.9370 – toll free

  517.887.9369 – fax

  Web site:  www.mrccouncil.org

  From: joe harcz Comcast [mailto:joeharcz at comcast.net] 
  Sent: Friday, June 24, 2011 12:54 PM
  To: marlene at mrccouncil.org
  Cc: Luke Zelley TDN; nfbmi-talk at nfbnet.org; Jo Anne Pilarski MCB, Chair; Larry Posont; lydia schuck; John Scott MCB, Commissioner; Patrick Cannon MCB Director; Joe Sibley
  Subject: Fw: ada 504 oma foia request for information

  Dear Ms. Malloy,

  I have not had a response to this inquiry. That in and of itself is a violation of the ADA and Section 504.

  Please remit the requested information in accessable format to this advocate who is blind.

  Sincerely,

  Paul Joseph Harcz, Jr.

  ----- Original Message ----- 

  From: joe harcz Comcast 

  To: marlene at mrccouncil.org 

  Cc: Jo Anne Pilarski MCB, Chair ; Larry Posont ; John Scott MCB, Commissioner ; lydia schuck ; arwoods at michigan.gov ; Joe Sibley MCBVI Pres. ; Jeanette Brown MI CAP ; Elmer Cerano MPAS ; Donna Rose 

  Sent: Wednesday, June 22, 2011 2:11 PM

  Subject: ada 504 oma foia request for information

  June 22, 2011

  ADA FOIA and OMA Request MRC Minutes

  Paul Joseph Harcz, Jr.

  1365 E. Mt. Morris Rd.

  Mt. Morris, MI  48458

  810-516-5262

  Re: request for MRC information

  Ms. Marlene Malloy

  Michigan Rehabilitation Council

  (Via e-mail at:

  marlene at mrccouncil.org)

  Dear Ms. Malloy,

  I am an advocate who happens to be blind. I note that fact for I am about to make a request for certain public information and I will invoke the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 as well as appropriate state law.

  Today I am requesting the complete June 3, 2011 MRC minutes. I am also requesting any written reports and corollary information related to a possible consolidation of the Michigan Commission for the Blind with the Michigan Rehabilitation Services.

  Of course as a blind person I cannot read these print documents and thus am requesting them pursuant to the effective communications requirements of the ADA, Title II subpart e and the auxiliary aids and services requirements of Section 504.

  My only request for accommodation in these regards is to receive them as either a Word attachment or a plain text enclosure to my e-mail address listed above, for you see simply my computer talks.

  Any written questions may also be made via conventional e-mail as well.

  I thank you in advance for your prompt, compliant and timely response to this request,

  Sincerely,

  Paul Joseph Harcz, Jr.

  Cc: file

  Cc: Commissioners, Michigan Commission for the Blind

  Cc: Steve Arwood, LARA

  Cc: Members NFB MI, MCBVI and other advocates for the blind