July 19, 2023
The undersigned members of the CCD join in solidarity with the transgender and broader LGBTQI+ community to denounce discrimination against LGBTQI+ people, including those with disabilities.
June 30, 2023 The decision ends affirmative action programs in college admissions and undermines efforts to create the diverse campuses that our nation needs.
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.
June 9, 2023
The federal Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) put out several questions on May 5, 2023 for public comment on the coverage and delivery of preventives services for people with disabilities. The AHRQ evidence-based practice center started an investigation in late April on the barriers that people with disabilities face when they seek preventive care, and seek information on the benefits and harms of interventions to reduce those barriers. AHRQ [lays a key role in the federal process that recognizes populations that experience health and healthcare disparities. DREDF has long argued that people with disabilities experience inequitable health and healthcare disparities. and provided responses to the AHRQ questions.
May 22, 2023
We are very sad to report that our longtime friend and colleague, Neil Jacobson, died on May 10, 2023, at his home in Oakland, California. Neil was a committed disability rights advocate and a supreme optimist. When someone told him that something was too complex, expensive, or impractical, he unfailingly said, "Why?" He insisted that it was possible to achieve any goal by simply persevering and believing in the righteousness of its purpose. He ended every email and conversation by saying, "Go, go, go!" That drive, tenacity, and, yes, stubbornness enabled Neil to convince his wife and life partner, Denise, to marry him and to persuade the social service bureaucracy that they should adopt their son, David. Neil himself acknowledged that his life was filled with joy and happiness. During Neil's memorial service, family members recalled him saying, "I'm the luckiest guy in the world."
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.
April 27, 2023
DREDF submitted comments to OMB on its initial proposal to update Statistical Policy Directive 15 on Race and Ethnicity Statistical Standards. The comments recognize that the proposed changes will mean a break with how race/ethnicity data has been previously collected and could make analysis over time difficult. However, DREDF agrees that it is critically important to ask for information about individuals and all their characteristics, including having a disability, in ways that center how people see themselves and uses language they understand.
April 25, 2023
DREDF and LAFLA have reached the first settlements in a major lawsuit against 22 properties accused of unlawful discrimination against tenants receiving Section 8 vouchers.
March 28, 2023
The consequences of people with disabilities not being counted among those who are capable of good health results in a self-fulfilling prophecy that ensures disabled people can rarely achieve good health.
March 21, 2023
Claims include misgendering, offensive questions and comments, failure to accommodate and sexual assault