[Cagdu] FW: What is a Service Animal and Why you Need to Know - AGENDA - Wednesday, February 23, 2011

[Tina Thomas]

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Wednesday, February 23, 2011

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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.

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