[nfbmi-talk] Fw: what has been done on this?
joe harcz Comcast
joeharcz at comcast.net
Wed Jun 20 17:40:01 UTC 2012
----- Original Message -----
From: "joe harcz Comcast" <joeharcz at comcast.net>
To: "Grant, Mary M" <Mary.M.Grant at ed.gov>
Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2012 1:38 PM
Subject: Re: what has been done on this?
> Here is the bottom line. The MCB Training Center after undergoing $3.5
> million in renovations does not have to this date raised character and
> Braille signage documented in the public record and required by ADAAG
> 3.40.1, 4, 5, and 6.
>
> Nor does the MCB continually in documented fashion remit material in
> alternate formats even upon nummerous reuest!
>
> MCB is a VR agency under your watch as a resipient of Departmental funds
> yet you do nothing to enforce the civil rights of the blind.
>
> Outragious, discriminatrory in and of itself this is.
>
> It is time to get up off of your butts and do a full scale compliance
> reveiw of this and other scofflaw agencies here in Michigan.
>
> You have the evidence of continued and pernatious violations of our civil
> rights and it is now time to enforce those rights.
>
> PJH
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Grant, Mary M" <Mary.M.Grant at ed.gov>
> To: <joeharcz at comcast.net>
> Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2012 1:29 PM
> Subject: FW: what has been done on this?
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: OCR Cleveland
> Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2012 10:03 AM
> To: 'joeharcz at coomcast.net'
> Subject: RE: what has been done on this?
>
> Dear Mr. Harcz,
>
> Your June 8, 2012 email to the U.S. Department of Education, Office for
> Civil Rights (OCR) in your subject line you asked "what has been done on
> this." In all your previous emails you provided OCR with a copy of your
> emails that you sent to several other agencies. We do not take action
> with respect to copies of emails sent to OCR because copies of emails do
> not constitute a complaint being filed with this agency. Also, the OCR
> does not maintain any records relative to the Michigan Commission for the
> Blind.
>
> The OCR enforces several Federal civil rights laws that prohibit
> discrimination in programs and activities that receive Federal financial
> assistance from the U.S. Department of Education or in certain public
> entities. The Federal civil right laws that prohibit discrimination,
> which we enforce are laws based on race, color, national origin, age, sex
> and disability. If you believe that you have been discriminated against
> on one of the above bases involving an institution as described above,
> you can file a complaint with our office. You can learn about how to file
> a complaint with our office at this website address - http://
> www.ed.gov/about /offices/list/ocr/complaints-how.html. According to
> OCR's case resolution and investigation procedures, OCR will generally
> take action only with respect to those complaint allegations that have
> been file within 180 calendar days of the date of the last act of alleged
> discrimination, unless a waiver is granted. Decisions on requests for
> waivers are made upon the receipt of an untimely complaint. In addition,
> if you filed a complaint alleging the same discriminatory conduct with
> another federal, state, or local civil rights enforcement agency within
> the 180-day period, and that agency issued a determination that you
> believe was flawed, you must file a complaint with us within 60 days after
> the other agency completed its investigation or notified you that it would
> take no further action, for us to consider your complaint to be timely.
>
> If, after reading the information provided above and the enclosed links,
> you have any questions about OCR's complaint process; please contact me at
> 216-522-7645 or by email to Mary.M.Grant at ed.gov.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: joe harcz Comcast [mailto:joeharcz at comcast.net]
> Sent: Friday, June 08, 2012 8:13 PM
> To: OCR Cleveland
> Subject: Fw: [nfbmi-talk] what has been done on this?
>
>
> ----- 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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