Posts filed under: public safety

Jan. 22, 2010
The Oakland Tribune
CityWise: Oakland settles lawsuit with disability rights group
City officials reached a settlement this week with the Berkeley-based Disability Rights Advocates over a 2007 lawsuit that said the city was ill-prepared to help disabled people in the event of a disaster such as an earthquake or firestorm.
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Filed Under: Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), disaster planning, public policy, public safety

Dec. 29, 2009
The Washington (D.C.) Examiner
Blind man falls onto Metro tracks, isn't the first to slip
A man hit by a Metro train at Gallery Place on Sunday may have tumbled from the platform because he was blind, the transit agency said.
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Filed Under: Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), physical disability, public safety, transportation, visually impaired

Dec. 22, 2009
KRGV-TV (Weslaco, Texas)
Man Achieves His Dream Despite Disability
Jaime Martinez has alwasy dreamed of being a police officer, but he had one problem holding him back. He was born with a disfigured right hand.
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Filed Under: employment, physical disability, profile, public safety

Dec. 22, 2009
The Washington Post
John R. Hudson dies; quadriplegic championed the disabled
John R. Hudson, 62, a social worker who devoted his career to support and rehabilitation for the disabled after a diving accident left him a quadriplegic as a young adult, died of respiratory arrest Dec. 9 at Inova Fair Oaks Hospital in Fairfax County.
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Filed Under: Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), disaster planning, language, public policy, public safety

Sept. 27, 2009
The (Alton, Ill.) Telegraph
Law gives responders more information on disabilities
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Filed Under: autism spectrum, public safety

Sept. 7, 2009
The (Trenton, N.J.) Times
CERT helps people with disabilities prepare for disaster
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Filed Under: disaster planning, housing, public safety

Aug. 12, 2009
The Washington Times
Disaster plans leave disabled behind
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Filed Under: disaster planning, public policy, public safety

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