From tinadt at sbcglobal.net Sun Feb 6 19:31:04 2011 From: tinadt at sbcglobal.net (Tina Thomas) Date: Sun, 6 Feb 2011 19:31:04 -0800 Subject: [Cagdu] FW: Article: Blind Man Comes To The Rescue Of His Service Dog KRIS Message-ID: <002c01cbc677$741ce650$5c56b2f0$@net> Blind Man Comes To The Rescue Of His Service Dog KRIS Posted: Feb 2, 2011 7:01 PM by Manuel Venegas - mvenegas at kristv.com KZTV10 Source: http://www.kztv10.com/news/blind-man-comes-to-the-rescue-of-his-s ervice-dog/ CORPUS CHRISTI - A blind man says he had to hold down a dangerous pit bull for 45 minutes before animal control came to pick it up on Tuesday. Charles McLennan says he heard growling in his yard, and went out to find a pit bull attacking his dog. "I had punched it three times to get it off of my dog and then I had dragged it into my apartment to keep it away from the neighbor kids so it wouldn't get away and I could call 911," says McLellan, The dog is now in the custody of animal control. 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URL: http://nfbcal.org/pipermail/cagdu/attachments/20110206/be691887/attachment.html From tinadt at sbcglobal.net Wed Feb 9 18:57:34 2011 From: tinadt at sbcglobal.net (Tina Thomas) Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2011 18:57:34 -0800 Subject: [Cagdu] FW: What is a Service Animal and Why you Need to Know - AGENDA - Wednesday, February 23, 2011 Message-ID: <000c01cbc8ce$45697b30$d03c7190$@net> -----Original Message----- From: Board of Guide Dogs for the Blind General Information mailing list [mailto:GUIDEDOG-GENERAL at LISTSERV.DCA.CA.GOV] On Behalf Of State Board of Guide Dogs for the Blind Sent: Monday, February 07, 2011 2:22 PM To: GUIDEDOG-GENERAL at LISTSERV.DCA.CA.GOV Subject: What is a Service Animal and Why you Need to Know - AGENDA - Wednesday, February 23, 2011 Printer Friendly Version http://www.guidedogboard.ca.gov/forms_pubs/confguide_02232011.pdf What is a Service Animal and Why you Need to Know when: Wednesday, February 23, 2011 9 am-12 pm where: Department of Consumer Affairs 1625 North Market Blvd First Floor Hearing Room Sacramento, CA 95834 webcast: live at: www.dca.ca.gov Changes have been made to Title II and Title III of the Americans with Disabilities Act regarding service animals. These changes, which will go into effect March 15, 2011, will affect the service animal users and the places of public accommodation they enter (local government buildings, businesses, hospitals, etc.). All individuals affected by the changes are encouraged to participate in this event. Speakers from the United States Department of Justice and Disability Rights California will discuss the new Federal law and its application in California. AGENDA: 9am Introduction/Welcome Board President Eric Holm 9:10am United States Department of Justice Liz Savage Overview of changes to Title II and III of the ADA (service animals), and what this means to members of the public, law enforcement, and the business community. 9:30am Disability Rights California Fred Nisen/Stuart Seaborn Overview of changes compared to State service animal access laws. 10am Q&A 10:45am Break 11am Q&A Continued Noon Adjourn SPEAKERS: Eric Holm Board President Eric Holm, after serving as a volunteer, speaker, and independent consultant with Guide Dogs for the Blind, Inc., was appointed by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger to the State Board of Guide Dogs for the Blind on October 29, 2008 and elected Board President on October 25, 2010. Holm graduated from Saint Mary's College (BA), San Francisco Law School (JD), and the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center. He served as a Federal Adjudications Officer for the US. Department of Justice and the U.S Department of Homeland Security. Holm also held the position of Vice President and Chief Stewart of the American Federation of Government Employees Local 1616. Holm actively engages as a member of the National Federation of the Blind and the Bay Area Association of Disabled Sailors. Presently, Holm also serves on the City of San Rafael Park & Recreation Commission and the City's ADA & Accessibility Advisory Committee, educating and advancing the rights and responsibilities of persons with disabilities. Ford, Holm's beautiful Yellow Labrador, nurtured and trained at Guide Dogs for the Blind, assists him in living life to the fullest. Fred Nisen Fred Nisen has been an attorney in the Bay Area Regional Office of Disability Rights California for approximately ten years. Before coming back to Disability Rights California, where he was an intern during law school, Nisen worked at the Nevada Disability Advocacy & Law Center. Nisen works on discrimination issues by public and private entities as well as housing discrimination, including reasonable accommodations. Liz Savage Liz Savage is an Attorney-Advisor in the Civil Rights Division's Disability Rights Section where she focuses on developing technical assistance materials for the Section's Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) technical assistance program. She has been involved in disability policy for more than 25 years and during the late 1980s, coordinated the Congressional lobbying campaign, building a coalition of more than 75 national disability, civil rights, religious and civic organizations that led to enactment of the ADA. While serving as Counsel to the Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights during the Clinton Administration, Savage was intimately involved in the creation of the ADA Technical Assistance and ADA Mediation programs and served as an advisor to Assistant Attorneys General Deval Patrick and Bill Lann Lee on ADA enforcement. Savage is the recipient of several awards for her disability rights work including The President's Committee on the Employment of People with Disabilities Distinguished Service Award (1992) and the National Council on Independent Living Individual Achievement Award (1990). Stuart Seaborn Stuart Seaborn began working with Disability Rights California in 2002 as a staff attorney in the Los Angeles Regional Office and is currently the Managing Attorney of the Sacramento Regional Office. His work focuses on litigation and policy advocacy to challenge discrimination against persons with physical and mental health disabilities. Seaborn is also a visiting professor of Disability Rights Law at King Hall/UC Davis School of Law. Previously, he investigated allegations of health-care privacy and civil rights violations as an Equal Opportunity Specialist for the Office for Civil Rights of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services in San Francisco. In addition, he represented low-income workers during a brief stint as a union-side labor attorney. Seaborn spent the first three years of his legal career as a trial attorney at the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice, where he worked on the prosecution of international bid-rigging and price fixing conspiracies. He graduated from the UCLA School of Law in 1998 and is bilingual in English and Spanish. State Board of Guide Dogs for the Blind 1625 N. Market Blvd., S-202 Sacramento, CA 95834 (916) 574-7825 direct (916) 574-7829 fax (866) 512-9103 toll free for in-state calls Guidedogboard at dca.ca.gov www.guidedogboard.ca.gov Mission: To ensure the quality of the guide dog industry by protecting, promoting, and educating guide dog users, instructors, schools, and the public in order to enhance the lives of blind or visually impaired individuals. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------- To unsubscribe from this email list please click on the link below and follow the instructions on the web page. https://www.dca.ca.gov/webapps/guidedogboard/subscribe.php From shannonldillon at hotmail.com Sun Feb 13 15:18:36 2011 From: shannonldillon at hotmail.com (Shannon L. Dillon) Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2011 15:18:36 -0800 Subject: [Cagdu] CAGDU chapter meeting February 13 6:30 p.m. Message-ID: This is a reminder that there is a CAGDU meeting tonight at 6:30 p.m. Call-in 712-432-0175 passcode 184220 pound. It should be quick; we're discussing the seminar. Thanks. SHANNON L. DILLON -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://nfbcal.org/pipermail/cagdu/attachments/20110213/01d02d0c/attachment.html From tinadt at sbcglobal.net Sat Feb 26 20:03:52 2011 From: tinadt at sbcglobal.net (Tina Thomas) Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2011 20:03:52 -0800 Subject: [Cagdu] FW: [nagdu] Questions for Nagdu Hotline Message-ID: <00f701cbd633$58eb1a70$0ac14f50$@net> Subject: [nagdu] Questions for Nagdu Hotline Hi, everyone. the Nagdu Hotline will be launched very soon. president marion Gwizdala will let us know about that. A committee has been formed to develop a list of questions and answers to be used as part of determining what goes on the Hotline, the training of people to man the Hotline, etc. We are asking all of you to submit questions that you believe people will ask when calling the Hotline. to start your brainstorming, think of the following questions: Someone has dialed into the Nagdu Hotline. what does this person want to know? What situation is this person dealing with? Please do not submit questions to the lists. Please submit your questions to me at the following email address: margo.downey at verizon.net I will pass your submissions to the other committee members. We will accept question submissions until March 8. thanks for your assistance. Margo downey chairperson, Ad Hoc Hotline Q and A Committee _______________________________________________ nagdu mailing list nagdu at nfbnet.org http://www.nfbnet.org/mailman/listinfo/nagdu_nfbnet.org To unsubscribe, change your list options or get your account info for nagdu: http://www.nfbnet.org/mailman/options/nagdu_nfbnet.org/tinadt%40sbcglobal.ne t From shannonldillon at hotmail.com Mon Feb 28 15:34:07 2011 From: shannonldillon at hotmail.com (Shannon L. Dillon) Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2011 15:34:07 -0800 Subject: [Cagdu] FW: What is a Service Animal and Why you Need to Know In-Reply-To: <16C148DDA3A2F04C99DC12BE9C12E43D0C5BBD7185@DCASHQEX01.dca.ca.gov> References: <16C148DDA3A2F04C99DC12BE9C12E43D0C5BA99D6B@DCASHQEX01.dca.ca.gov>, <16C148DDA3A2F04C99DC12BE9C12E43D0C5BBD7185@DCASHQEX01.dca.ca.gov> Message-ID: SHANNON L. DILLON From: Guidedogboard at dca.ca.gov Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2011 15:13:39 -0800 Subject: FW: What is a Service Animal and Why you Need to Know To: Dear Interested Parties: On February 23, 2011, the State Board of Guide Dogs for the Blind facilitated a panel discussion regarding changes to Title II and III of the Americans with Disabilities Act. In case you missed the live discussion, the webcast can be accessed in the link below. http://www.guidedogboard.ca.gov/forms_pubs/service_animal.shtml State Board of Guide Dogs for the Blind 1625 N. Market Blvd., S-202 Sacramento, CA 95834 (916) 574-7825 direct (916) 574-7829 fax (866) 512-9103 toll free for in-state calls guidedogboard at dca.ca.gov www.guidedogboard.ca.gov Mission: To ensure the quality of the guide dog industry by protecting, promoting, and educating guide dog users, instructors, schools, and the public in order to enhance the lives of blind or visually impaired individuals. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://nfbcal.org/pipermail/cagdu/attachments/20110228/897715bf/attachment.html From shannonldillon at hotmail.com Mon Feb 28 16:20:57 2011 From: shannonldillon at hotmail.com (Shannon L. Dillon) Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2011 16:20:57 -0800 Subject: [Cagdu] FW: What is a Service Animal and Why you Need to Know In-Reply-To: <16C148DDA3A2F04C99DC12BE9C12E43D0C5BBD7185@DCASHQEX01.dca.ca.gov> References: <16C148DDA3A2F04C99DC12BE9C12E43D0C5BA99D6B@DCASHQEX01.dca.ca.gov>, <16C148DDA3A2F04C99DC12BE9C12E43D0C5BBD7185@DCASHQEX01.dca.ca.gov> Message-ID: SHANNON L. DILLON From: Guidedogboard at dca.ca.gov Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2011 15:13:39 -0800 Subject: FW: What is a Service Animal and Why you Need to Know To: Dear Interested Parties: On February 23, 2011, the State Board of Guide Dogs for the Blind facilitated a panel discussion regarding changes to Title II and III of the Americans with Disabilities Act. In case you missed the live discussion, the webcast can be accessed in the link below. http://www.guidedogboard.ca.gov/forms_pubs/service_animal.shtml State Board of Guide Dogs for the Blind 1625 N. Market Blvd., S-202 Sacramento, CA 95834 (916) 574-7825 direct (916) 574-7829 fax (866) 512-9103 toll free for in-state calls guidedogboard at dca.ca.gov www.guidedogboard.ca.gov Mission: To ensure the quality of the guide dog industry by protecting, promoting, and educating guide dog users, instructors, schools, and the public in order to enhance the lives of blind or visually impaired individuals. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://nfbcal.org/pipermail/cagdu/attachments/20110228/a5bed7dc/attachment.html