[nfbmi-talk] Fw: ADA/504 requests reiterated and systemically

joe harcz Comcast joeharcz at comcast.net
Tue Oct 8 21:02:26 UTC 2013


----- Original Message ----- 
From: joe harcz Comcast 
To: CochranM at michigan.gov 
Sent: Tuesday, October 08, 2013 5:00 PM
Subject: ADA/504 requests reiterated and systemically


Dear Ms. Cochran,

More than two  months ago I requested from you and from DHS all information in accessible format and other accommodations relative to my case in accessible format, as I am blind and need such accommodations according to the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (Title II subpart e, communications, and other relevent  portions and under Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973). I simply asked for all information in my case to be sent to me either on a flash drive and/or as e0-mail attachments or enclosures to my e-mail address which was denoted and is: joeharcz at comcast.net. The other requests were clearly delineated in my initial application which by the why in documented fashion was not fully accessible either.

One of the requests for information and communications was to simply receive your e=-mail address and to have that sent to me so that we could simply dialogue in accessible format and in accordance with DHS and the laws' policies. Yet, until this date denoted in this e-maile you have never once sent me so much as an accessible e-mail in accessible format and indeed I've had to retain an attorney to get me this much, or rather, I've retained the good counsel of counsel to get me this much.

Moreover, mame I've requested once again that everything that you or DHS sends me in print is sent to me in fully accessible format pursuant to the laws aforementioned. Yet, I've been sent several correspondences in print without any corresponding information in accessible format which makes it simply imposable to be both protected and included under existing civil rights laws in fact, deed, and action, but also makes it totally impossible to protect the taxpayer or public from waste fraud and abuse, even if that were the case.

In other words your agency has not the means, methods, and protocols in place to comply with the rights, and obligations of people who are blind as a class either pursuant to the long standing and previously notified (re" memos circa 2001 to the former DHS known as FIA at the time from yours truly to Mary Hall Thiam, et al at the time).

Regardless the agency of state mostly funded with federal resources was supposed to have acted years ago, affirmatively to remit all documents in accessible format upon requests let alone pro forma (Tyler v. Manhattan). Yet I cannot get a simply e-mail from you or the agency after months and after requests, let alone other pertinent information after specific and written requests.

Mame, these things constitute systemic and specific violations of civil rights violations not only against my person in these regards but against all persons who are blind or visually impaired. And those facts are plain upon their face.

Now, this said I do once again request from you personally and in your official capacity to remit anything and everything that you have sent me to date in accessible format which is to have either and or all documents sent me to be remitted vial simple email enclosures, or as plain text or Word attachments to my e-mail address and/or to have all printed materials sent to my residence tagged with at a minimum of being denoted from DHS (Michigan Department of Human Services and with a brief Braille of just what the heck  the print document refers to.(

Sincerely,

But with legal concerns,

Paul Josepharcz, Jr.

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