[NJAGDU] Information to review before tonight if you wish : reminder, call tonight at 7 pm for all guide dog users
Patricia Ebel
patriciaebel0302 at comcast.net
Tue Feb 25 22:28:08 UTC 2020
You may want to check out this link below to familiarize yourself if you
have time before tonights call.
https://www.seeingeye.org/graduates/comments-on-nprm-012220.html
From: Trisha Ebel <tebel at hipcil.org>
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Subject: reminder, call tonight at 7 pm for all guide dog users
Hi All,
Tonight at 7 pm there will be a conference call for all guide dog users:
This is a very important call regarding the possible changes that the D.O.T
wants to make regarding air travel and our service dogs. Melissa from
Seeing Eye will be on the call to explain and answer questions. We can't
just sit back, we need to take action and let our voices be heard. If the
changes do take place it will make air travel extremely hard and even more
time consuming for us as well as the changes can be making us take a step
back in time. I can't urge you enough to join us to learn how we can
all take action. Here is the conference information.
Conference number: (605) 475 6250
Code star 2018 pound
Thank you to all.
Trisha Ebel
Trisha Ebel
Independent Living Assistant
Heightened Independence and Progress (hip)
131 Main Street, Suite 120
Hackensack, NJ 07601
201-996-9100 Ext. 19
201-996-9422 (fax)
<http://www.hipcil.org/> www.hipcil.org
Get a tax deduction by donating a vehicle (running or not) to hip or call
877-CARS4US Ext. 3185
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form.shtml?n=Heightened%20Independence%20&%20Progress
From: Trisha Ebel
Sent: Friday, February 21, 2020 9:08 AM
To: Trisha Ebel <tebel.ber at hipcil.org <mailto:tebel.ber at hipcil.org> >;
Beverly Gonzalez <beverly.gonzalez17 at gmail.com
<mailto:beverly.gonzalez17 at gmail.com> >; 'Belinda Valdes'
<belindavaldes28 at gmail.com <mailto:belindavaldes28 at gmail.com> >;
Beverlygonzalez17 at gmail.com <mailto:Beverlygonzalez17 at gmail.com> ; Tracy
Carcione <carcione at access.net <mailto:carcione at access.net> >;
Carlos.Sanchez at dhs.state.nj.us <mailto:Carlos.Sanchez at dhs.state.nj.us> ;
'Deryn Hespos' <derynh1216 at gmail.com <mailto:derynh1216 at gmail.com> >; Ida
Behreini <ibehreini at drew.edu <mailto:ibehreini at drew.edu> >;
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Carcione <carcione at access.net <mailto:carcione at access.net> >;
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Subject: Tuesday night NFB guide Dog committee, IMPORTANT CONFERENCE CALL
REGARDING CHANGES IN AIR TRAVEL
Hi All,
On Tuesday night at 7 pm the NJAGDU committee will be hosting a very
important call regarding the possible changes that the D.O.T wants to
make regarding air travel and our service dogs. Melissa from Seeing Eye
will be on the call to explain and answer questions. We can't just sit
back, we need to take action and let our voices be heard. If the changes do
take place it will make air travel extremely hard and even more time
consuming for us as well as the changes can be making us take a step back
in time. Even if this is the only conference you ever make, this is an
important one. I can't urge you enough to join us to learn how we can all
take action, put this date and time on your calendar, set a timer too!
Here is the conference information. Please rsvp to me with your
availability and with any questions.
Conference number 605 475 6250
Code star 2018 pound
My contact email to use is
Patriciaebel0302 at comcast.net <mailto:Patriciaebel0302 at comcast.net>
Thank you to all.
Trisha Ebel
Independent Living Assistant
Heightened Independence and Progress (hip)
131 Main Street, Suite 120
Hackensack, NJ 07601
201-996-9100 Ext. 19
201-996-9422 (fax)
<http://www.hipcil.org/> www.hipcil.org
Get a tax deduction by donating a vehicle (running or not) to hip or call
877-CARS4US Ext. 3185
http:/www.donationline.com/newvehicle donation
form.shtml?n=Heightened%20Independence%20***********************************
******************
Good afternoon everyone. Below is a proposed set of rules issued by the
department of transportation regarding flying with service animals. It was
published on January 22nd, and the public has 60 days to comment. Once that
60 day period ends, the department of transportation (DOT) will utilize
these public comments to determine what if any changes should be made. Once
the document is revised, it will go into affect and will henceforth be the
law.
As a Service dog handler, I have some concerns regarding the proposal,
specifically related to the forms that must be filled out, the check in
period and the discussion about the size of the service animal.
I appreciate your attention to this matter, and I hope that we can all
assist in making the necessary changes that will allow such a proposal to be
a success.
Please join the NJAGDU committee on Tuesday, February 25 at 7:30 pm so we
can discuss this. Joining us will be Melissa Alman from The Seeing Eye.
Conference number will be sent out next week. Please let me know if you
have any questions.
Please feel free to share this email as I would like for it to reach as many
individuals as possible.
Information from DOT:
https://www.transportation.gov/airconsumer/latest-news
<http://support.seeingeye.org/site/R?i=wKebTD9uw8zW2c0bQMvQfA>
Posted January 22, 2020
Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) - Traveling by Air with Service
Animals. In the Department's Traveling by Air with Service Animals Notice of
Proposed Rulemaking, the Department proposes the following changes to its
current Air Carrier Access Act service animal rule in 14 CFR Part 382:
* Definition of Service Animal: The Department proposes to define a
service animal as a dog that is individually trained to do work or perform
tasks for the benefit of a qualified individual with a disability, including
a physical, sensory, psychiatric, intellectual, or other mental disability.
This proposed definition of a service animal is similar to the Department of
Justice's (DOJ) Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) definition of a
service animal.
* Emotional Support Animals: The Department's proposed rulemaking does
not require airlines to recognize emotional support animals as service
animals. Airlines would be permitted to treat emotional support animals,
which are not trained to do work or perform a task for the benefit of a
qualified individual with a disability, as pets.
* Species: Under the Department's proposed rule, airlines would only
be required to transport dogs as service animals. As a result, airlines
would no longer be required to accommodate miniature horses, cats, rabbits,
birds, and all other service animals that airlines are currently required to
transport.
* Documentation: Airlines would be permitted to require passengers
with a disability traveling with a service animal to complete and submit to
the airline the following forms developed by DOT as a condition of
transportation: (1) U.S. Department of Transportation Service Animal Air
Transportation Health Form, to be completed by a veterinarian in order to
certify the animal's good health; (2) U.S. Department of Transportation
Service Animal Air Transportation Behavior and Training Attestation Form, to
be completed by the service animal handler in order to attest to the
animal's good behavior; and (3) U.S. Department of Transportation Service
Animal Relief Attestation, to be completed by the service animal handler
when traveling with a service animal on a flight eight hours or longer in
order to verify that the animal has the ability to either not relieve
itself, or can relieve itself in a sanitary manner. Under the Department's
proposal, these three documents would be the only documents that an airline
could require from an individual with a disability traveling with a service
animal. The DOT forms would include a warning that it would be a Federal
crime for a service animal handler to make false statements or
representations on these forms to secure disability accommodations.
* Check-In Requirements: The Department proposes to allow airlines to
require all passengers with a disability traveling with a service animal to
check in one-hour before the check-in time for the general public as a
condition for travel with a service animal to allow time to process the
service animal documentation and observe the animal. However, the
Department also proposes that if an airline imposes the one-hour check-in
requirement on passengers traveling with service animals, the airline must
designate a location in the airport for these passengers to check-in
promptly by a trained agent.
* Number of Service Animals Per Passenger: The Department's NPRM
proposes to require airlines to accept up to two service animals per
passenger for transport on an aircraft. In order to determine if the animal
qualifies as a service animal, airlines are permitted to ask passengers with
disabilities if the animal is required to accompany the passenger because of
a disability, and what work or task the animal has been trained to perform,
but the airline must not ask the passenger the nature of his or her
disability, nor are airlines permitted to ask service animals to demonstrate
the work or tasks they have been trained to perform.
* Large Service Animals: The Department proposes to allow airlines to
limit service animals based on whether the animal can fit onto the service
animal handler's lap or within the handler's foot space. Airlines would be
permitted to reject service animals that are too large to fit on these
spaces.
* Control of the Animal: The Department proposes to continue to
permit airlines to require that service animals be harnessed, leashed,
tethered or otherwise under the control of its handler at all times in the
airport and on the aircraft. In general, tethering and similar means of
controlling an animal that are permitted in the Americans with Disabilities
Act context would be reasonable in the context of controlling service
animals in the airport and on the aircraft.
* Direct Threat: The Department proposes to continue to allow airlines
to refuse to transport a service animal if the animal poses a direct threat
to the health or safety of others. In determining whether to deny transport
to a serve animal on the basis that the animal poses a direct threat, the
NPRM specifies that airline must make an individualized assessment based on
reasonable judgments that relies on the best available objective evidence to
ascertain the nature, duration, and severity of the risk; the probability
that the potential injury will occur; and whether reasonable modifications
will mitigate the risk.
* Breed Restrictions: The Department proposes to continue prohibiting
airlines from imposing breed and other categorical restrictions on service
animals. In the NPRM, the Department proposes explicit language that states
that airlines are not permitted to refuse to transport service animals based
on breed.
The comment period closes 60 days after publication.
Trisha Ebel
Independent Living Assistant
Heightened Independence and Progress (hip)
131 Main Street, Suite 120
Hackensack, NJ 07601
201-996-9100 Ext. 19
201-996-9422 (fax)
<http://www.hipcil.org/> www.hipcil.org
Get a tax deduction by donating a vehicle (running or not) to hip or call
877-CARS4US Ext. 3185
http:/www.donationline.com/newvehicle donation
form.shtml?n=Heightened%20Independence%20&%20Progress
From: Trisha Ebel <tebel.ber at hipcil.org <mailto:tebel.ber at hipcil.org> >
Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2019 4:15 PM
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Beverly Gonzalez <beverly.gonzalez17 at gmail.com
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Carlos.Sanchez at dhs.state.nj.us <mailto:Carlos.Sanchez at dhs.state.nj.us> ;
'Deryn Hespos' <derynh1216 at gmail.com <mailto:derynh1216 at gmail.com> >; Ida
Behreini <ibehreini at drew.edu <mailto:ibehreini at drew.edu> >;
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Cc: Patricia Ebel (patriciaebel0302 at comcast.net
<mailto:patriciaebel0302 at comcast.net> ) <patriciaebel0302 at comcast.net
<mailto:patriciaebel0302 at comcast.net> >
Subject: NFB guide Dog committee, join us and make a difference
Hi All! If you are a guide dog user and would like to make a difference,
educate and advocate then this committee is for you! We are in the process
of building our membership: this committee will also be a great source for
resources and we all support each other. Here's some information:
GUide Dog Committee
The Guide Dog Committee provides the opportunity for its members to educate
the community about issues of guide dog users; To act as advocates for guide
dog users; To educate the community about the capabilities and needs of the
blind; To promote the general well-being of the blind in the State of New
Jersey and of the nation; and To function as an integral part of the
National Federation of the Blind.
One of our committee's accomplishments was signed into law in January 2014.
In New Jersey, <https://www.nfbnj.org/dustys-law> Dusty's Law (Statute
2C:29-3.2), penalizes pet owners whose dogs physically harm or interfere
with a guide dog team or a guide dog puppy.
Want to get involved, please email Trisha Ebel your contact information.
The committee will be hosting the first conference call of the year in late
February. Join us in kicking off a fabulous and productive year!!! ! The
Chair of our committee is Dan Facchini, 201-906-8655 or
<mailto:danfb at verizon.net> danfb at verizon.net.
I look forward to hearing back from you.
Trisha Ebel
(201) 456-0091
Patriciaebel0302 at comcast.net <mailto:Patriciaebel0302 at comcast.net>
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