[nfbmi-talk] open question for all here?

[joe harcz Comcast]

For too long we all get isolated from each other in working for our own issues relative to BSBP. One of the things required under the Rehabilitation Act is that all information from the point of application through closure of a VR case is supposed to be made in accessible format, and one that is most effective for the individual (it is called primary consideration under relevent provisions of the Rehab Act including Section 504 and also under the ADA, Title II).

Now our stallwart brother Terry Eagle referenced this requirement when inquiring and holding Rodgers accountable on this issue alone when he said, that we sign or are forced to sign IPEs we cannot read.

Moreover, all of our rights to CAP, Administrative Reviews, Administrative Hearings and all that are supposed to be clearly deliniated under law. Yet, we know that doesn't happen and they are not given in accessible format either!

Over and over agai if folks have issues in the VR process here we hear this, "Send it up to Leemon Jones".

Well this ain't due process and is a continued violation of law and equity and even common sense.

So here is the deal....Let's put our requests for these rights on this list or even off list so that these parties might finally get sued and for their chronic and pernicious violations of law and so that this thing might finally be brought in to compliance for the benefit of all of Michigan's blind people.