[nfbmi-talk] Fw: what has been done on this?

[joe harcz Comcast]

I've done so and I've filed several complaints on my own, plus as you know 
from the CIC meeting I directly asked Bernstein to sue over this issue!
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Fred Wurtzel" <f.wurtzel at att.net>
To: "'NFB of Michigan Internet Mailing List'" <nfbmi-talk at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Saturday, June 09, 2012 10:14 AM
Subject: Re: [nfbmi-talk] Fw: what has been done on this?


> Well, Joe, have you called larry to volunteer to help?  you wrote the
> resolution, can you take some responsibility to get it done?We depend on
> lots of people to do things.
>
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> On Behalf Of joe harcz Comcast
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>
> another six weeks has passed. This is the will of convention assembled to
> impliment these resolutions.
>
> That ladies and gentlemen is NFB business!
>
> And it is not a personal attack to point this out.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "joe harcz Comcast" <joeharcz at comcast.net>
> To: <nfbmi-talk at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Monday, April 16, 2012 6:20 AM
> Subject: [nfbmi-talk] what has been done on this?
>
>
> RESOLUTION 2011-01
> RESOLUTION RELATED TO PROGRAM ACCESS AND MCB
>
>
> WHEREAS, all Vocational Rehabilitation entities, including the Michigan
> Commission for the Blind, (MCB) have long ago been required to provide
> "program access" to all the facilities it uses on a daily basis and to 
> hold
> hearings, meetings and events in fully accessible facilities, even to the
> point of signing assurances with the Rehabilitation Services 
> Administration
> annually that it does fully comply with these long-standing obligations; 
> and
>
>
>
>            WHEREAS, one of those long-standing requirements was, and is to
> have raised character Braille signage mounted on every permanent room,
> nearest the latch side of each door in accordance with American with
> Disabilities Act Guidelines (3.40.1, 4, 5, and 6); and
>
>
>
>            WHEREAS, all such barriers were to have been removed under the
> required ADA transition plan by no later than July 26, 1995, yet exist to
> this very day in most, if not all, facilities used by the MCB; and
>
>
>
>            WHEREAS, Patrick D. Cannon was the former Chair of the United
> States Access Board which establishes the standards of the ADAAG, the 
> State
> of Michigan ADA Coordinator responsible for implementation and the 
> Director
> of MCB responsible for full compliance and knowingly so; and
>
>
>
>            WHEREAS, the ADA and Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act are
> civil rights laws requiring affirmative action; and therefore these
> inactions by Cannon constitute not only gross dereliction of known duties
> and deliberate indifference to these civil rights laws, but also must be
> considered malicious and intentional acts of mass discrimination; and
>
>
>
>            WHEREAS, members of, and indeed the entire state affiliate of
> the National Federation of the Blind of Michigan, have promoted the full
> application of these requirements repeatedly over the years along with
> documenting violations; and
>
>
>
>            WHEREAS, the NFB-MI has long promoted Braille, including its 
> use
>
> in the built environment, for reasons obvious to all:
>
>
>
>            NOW THEREFORE, be it resolved by the National Federation of the
> Blind of Michigan in convention assembled this 6th day of November, 2011 
> in
> the City of Kalamazoo, Michigan that forthwith the NFB-MI lodges a formal
> Complaint with the Office of Civil Rights (OCR) in the United States
> Department of Education, along with supporting documentation, on behalf of
> all its members, and indeed all people who are blind in the State of
> Michigan, against Patrick D. Cannon, individually, and against the 
> Michigan
> Commission for the Blind as an entity; and
>
>
>
>            BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that as a part of this Complaint, the
> NFB-MI urges OCR to promptly enforce our individual and collective civil
> rights and to make the class whole as its charge.
>
>
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