July 11, 2024
DREDF filed a motion with the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeal seeking leave to participate as amicus curiae in Guthrey v. Alta California Regional Center, a case that will decide whether regional centers and their vendors are subject to the anti-discrimination provisions of the ADA.
March 26, 2024
This webinar provides an overview of the right to reasonable accommodations in California Court proceedings (as an advocate, party, or spectator), and the process for requesting accommodations. Cases and personal experiences with advocating for effective communication are also discussed.
March 15, 2024
DREDF, CommunicationFIRST, and the Independent Living Resource Center San Francisco sent a letter to UCSF leaders regarding Alice Wong's recent experience at the Moffitt/Long Hospital for an urgent medical need. During her stay, Alice was denied effective communication and was subjected to the constant risk of infection from unmasked or improperly masked staff.
October 4, 2023
DREDF is hopeful that SCOTUS will allow testers to continue to play a meaningful role in the enforcement of civil rights laws and bring the ADA's still-unfulfilled promise closer to fruition.
August 10, 2023
If ADA testers lose standing, people with disabilities will continue to experience discrimination and barriers to their full participation in society.
July 31, 2023
Two bills in Sacramento would make it easier for disabled people to serve on advisory boards and committees and protect their health by participating remotely.
June 27, 2023
How can we fight for safer access to healthcare in this increasingly masks-optional world? People with disabilities have federally protected civil rights under the Americans with Disabilities Act and state laws to equal access to places of public accommodation and government programs, like public and private healthcare settings.
May 18, 2023
Today, four law school graduates with disabilities have filed a group complaint with the U.S. DOJ against the State Bar of California for consistently violating the ADA by failing to provide accommodations on the California bar exam.
March 7, 2023
The autonomous vehicle advocacy of the Disability Rights Education & Defense Fund, known as DREDF, is rooted in our belief that access to safe, affordable, reliable transportation is a civil right.
March 9, 2023
Autonomous vehicles (AVs) have the potential to transform access to transportation and related infrastructure for people with disabilities. AVs and new technologies also come with significant risks of embedding and perpetuating bias and discrimination that permeate society. This brief considers bias within pedestrian detection and collision behavior algorithms, lack of disability representation in the datasets used to train and test AVs, and the need for ethics frameworks that give full recognition to disabled people's humanity and fundamental rights. Policy measures to mitigate the identified risks are proposed.