[nfbmi-talk] Fw: FOIA Response on Email Correspondences Relative to MCBTC

[joe harcz Comcast]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: Haynes, Carla (LARA) 
To: joe harcz Comcast (joeharcz at comcast.net) 
Cc: Cannon, Patrick (LARA) ; Luzenski, Sue (LARA) ; Farmer, Mel (LARA) ; Turney, Susan (LARA) ; Duell, Elsie (LARA) ; Boone, Christine (LARA) 
Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2012 10:12 AM
Subject: FOIA Response on Email Correspondences Relative to MCBTC


July 11, 2012

 

Mr. Paul Joseph Harcz, Jr.

E-mail:  joeharcz at comcast.net

1365 E. Mt. Morris Rd.

Mt. Morris, MI  48458

 

Subject:  Email Correspondences Relative to Making MCBTC Accessible

 

Dear Mr. Harcz, Jr.:

 

This letter is in response to your June 30, 2012, email request for copies of public records, received on July 2, 2012.  Please be informed the Department's Michigan Commission for the Blind (MCB) is processing this request under the state's Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), MCL 15.231 et seq.

 

In your email, you requested information/records described as per the attached copy of your email.

 

As you asked for "Email correspondences to any personnel in any agency of state government relative to this request", the number of staff to ask maybe very large and in order to determine the amount of non-exempt information within the Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs that might be responsive to your request, a search must be undertaken for the information of which you have requested.  For this reason, it is necessary to extend the time for response, as permitted by section 5(2)(d) of the FOIA, to a date prior to or by July 24, 2012.

 

Sincerely,

 

 

Carla Miller Haynes, FOIA Coordinator

Michigan Commission for the Blind

FOIA - P.J. Harcz, Jr.

July 11, 2012

Page 2 of 2

 

 

 

 

Attachment - Email Request of 6-30-12

 

Cc:    Patrick Cannon

          Mel Farmer

          Susan Turney

          Elsie Duell

          Christine Boone

 

 



From: joe harcz Comcast <joeharcz at comcast.net>

Sent: Thursday, July 05, 2012 2:47 PM

To:   MARK CODY

Cc:   Richard Bernstein Esq; Haynes, Carla (LARA); Farmer, Mel (LARA); OCR 

Cleveland Office; Sally Conway USDOJ; nfbmi-talk at nfbnet.org; lydia 

Schuck MCB Comm.; Larry Posont MCB Comm.; John Scott MCB 

Comm.; Zimmer, Mike (LARA)

Subject:    Fw: ada request complaint and documentation of same

 

Still no response whatsoever to this inquiry.


PJH

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

From: joe harcz Comcast 

To: Patrick Cannon MCB Dir. 

Cc: Sue Luzenski MCB Admin Ass. ; Larry Posont MCB Comm. ; lydia Schuck MCB Comm. ; John Scott 

MCB Comm. ; nfbmi-talk at nfbnet.org ; zimmerm at michigan.gov ; Robin Jones ; Elmer Cerano MPAS ; 

MARK CODY ; Richard Bernstein Esq ; Craig McManus RSA 

Sent: Saturday, June 30, 2012 4:05 PM

Subject: ada request complaint and documentation of same

 

June 30 2012 ADA Information Request Cannon

 

Paul Joseph Harcz, Jr.

1365 E. Mt. Morris Rd.

Mt. Morris, MI 48458

joeharcz at comcast.net

 

To: Patrick D. Cannon

Director Michigan Commission for the Blind

And Former State of Michigan ADA coordinator

(Via e-mail)

 

Dear Mr. Cannon,

 

I am writing you today to request all e-mail correspondences to any personnel in any agency of state government relative to the requirements of making the Michigan Commission for the Blind training Center fully accessible to all  people with disabilities including provisions of the Americans with Disabilities Act especially considering the recent $3.5 million major alteration to it,.

 

Specifically I want any correspondences at a minimum relative to the absence of raised character and Braille signage on every permanent room required by American with Disabilities Act Guidelines (ADAAG) 3.40.1, 4, 5, 6.

 

Also since these were deficient at the MCB meeting of March, 2012 held at that location how do you explain your violations of even the program access requirements for fully accessible public meetings required not only by the ADA, but also required in both Title I and Section 504 of the 

very Rehabilitation Act of 1973 that creates and funds MCB to begin with? This was under your watch sir as head of the entity. The contracts and all were signed when you were the State of Michigan ADA coordinator.

 

These are gross violations in documented fashion of my and other's civil rights. And these rights are long standing as the ADA is about to celebrate its 22nd Anniversary on paper that is, but is clearly not implemented by you and other state agencies here in Michigan under your ever so watchful eye.

 

Regardless, send me  at minimum your recent correspondences with Ms. Christine Boone, Michael Zimmer and others in this fantastic story of how an agency for the blind is not fully accessible to the blind even to the point of knowing which bloody room one who is blind is going to at the very MCB Training center where indeed people are supposed to learn the skills of blindness including Braille!

 

By the way this also constitutes a complaint and documentation of said complaint!

 

Warmly,

 

Paul Joseph Harcz, Jr.

 

Cc: Michael Zimmer, LARA

Cc: RSA

Cc: MCB Commissioners

Cc: OCR

Cc: MPAS

Cc: Richard Bernstein, Esq.

Cc: National Federation of the Blind

Cc: Great Lakes "TAC"

 

 

 

 

 

Carla Miller Haynes

DLARA Michigan Commission for the Blind

201 N. Washington Sq., 2nd Floor

P.O. Box 30652

Lansing, MI  48909

Phone:  517/373-2063

FAX: 517/335-5140

 

www.michigan.gov/mcb
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