Here is today's Kansas Commission on Disability Concerns (KCDC) Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) Information Network message.? Please feel free to share.?

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*Martha K. Gabehart* | "Executive Director
"Kansas Commission on Disability Concerns (KCDC)
*Kansas Governor Laura Kelly
*900 SW Jackson, Suite 100 | Topeka, Kansas 66612
(785) 296-6525 (direct) | (785) 260-4027 (cell)

[email protected] | www.kcdcinfo.ks.gov [ [link removed] ]

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The Great Plains ADA Center newsletter is now available on their website [ [link removed] ].? There is information about the ADA Symposium in June in Minnesota.? There will be a virtual ADA Symposium in May but registration is not yet open.?

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This message is from the US Department of Justice (DOJ).

On January 31, 2024, the Justice Department filed a statement of interest explaining how the ADA?s equal opportunity and reasonable modification requirements apply in the voting context. The statement of interest (attached below) was filed in In Re Georgia SB 202, a consolidated lawsuit [ [link removed] ] challenging restrictions on absentee and in-person voting under Georgia Senate Bill SB 202 (?SB 202?). One of the private lawsuits alleges that SB 202 fails to provide people with disabilities an equal opportunity to vote absentee and in-person or make reasonable modifications to avoid disability-based discrimination, in violation of Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act and Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act. The department?s brief explains that, under the ADA, voters with disabilities must have an equal opportunity to vote by a particular method as do voters without disabilities, and that this equal opportunity requirement is separate from the requirement that public entities make reasonable modifications. To learn more about the Department?s efforts to protect the right to vote under the ADA, please refer to the Department?s topics page regarding Voting and Polling Places [ [link removed] ]. For more information on the ADA, please visit ADA.gov [ [link removed] ] or call the toll-free ADA Information Line at 800-514-0301 (TTY 1-833-610-1264).
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* statement_of_interest-in_re_georgia_sb_202.pdf [ [link removed] ]

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