[Vendorsmi] Fw: illegal and inaccessable public hearings

[joe harcz Comcast]

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From: joe harcz Comcast 
To: Richard Bernstein Esq 
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Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2012 11:37 AM
Subject: illegal and inaccessable public hearings 


All,

 

This building houses daily Michigan Rehabilitation Services and Michigan Commission for the Blind Offices. Program access to such facilities was required as of January 26, 1992. Yet they are not compliant to this day. Moreover, this facility is required to have raised character and Braille signage on every permanent room including room numbers (ADAAG 3.40.1, 4, 5, 6). It does not.

 

Moreover all Vocational Rehabilitation Agencies are required to hold public hearings in accessible facilities. Both the Michigan Commission for the Blind and the Michigan Rehabilitation Services are holding public hearings this very week on its so-called, and highly illegal state plan in this very inaccessible building.

 

The ADA is a civil rights law. We people with disabilities have the right to access our government facilities!

 

It is incredible at the amount of documentation I’ve given over the last decade  on these issues without any compliance!

 

Sincerely,

 

Joe HarczNational Federation of the Blind

ADAPT

 

Woman sues state, says Detroit office building hinders handicapped | The Detroit News |

July 11, 2012 at 1:00 am

 

Woman sues state, says Detroit office building hinders handicapped

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• By Robert Snell

• The Detroit News

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Detroit— A Farmington Hills woman sued the state in federal court Tuesday, alleging workers with disabilities are denied equal access to a state office

building in Detroit.

 

Michigan

Economic

Development Corp. employee Jill Babcock said wheelchair ramps are too steep outside the Cadillac Place building on West Grand Boulevard, and the facility

lacks available handicap parking.

 

The building, which formerly served as General Motors Corp. headquarters, was renovated in 2002 but failed to comply with the Americans with Disabilities

Act, according to the lawsuit.

 

Babcock wants to force the state to comply with the disabilities act.

 

rsnell at detnews.com

 

(313) 222-2028

 

 
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