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A Guide to Effective Statewide Laws/Policies Against Discrimination
(Separate Website)
Information about preventing discrimination against lesbian, gay, bi-sexual and trans-sexual students in K-12 Schools
By: LAMBDA Legal Defense & Education Fund
Americans with Disabilities Act
(Separate Website)
The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) prohibits discrimination against people with disabilities in employment, transportation, public accommodation, communications, and governmental activities. The ADA also establishes requirements for telecommunications relay services.
By: U.S. Department of Labor
Americans with Disabilities Act - Answers to Common Questions
(Separate Website)
The Americans with Disabilities Act gives civil rights protections to individuals with disabilities similar to those provided to individuals on the basis of race, color, sex, national origin, age, and religion. It guarantees equal opportunity for individuals with disabilities in public accommodations, employment, transportation, State and local government services, and telecommunications. This web page is designed to provide answers to some of the questions asked most often about the ADA.
By: Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) - Accessible Transportation
(Separate Website)
The Americans with Disabilities Act, (ADA) gives people with disabilities many important rights in the area of transportation. This fact sheet is limited to public transportation systems. For more information on your rights to other types of transportation, please contact one of the resources listed on our contact sheet. If you have a disability, you are entitled to the same right to use and enjoy public transportation as people without disabilities. The local transit provider does have the duty to make public transportation accessible. Here are some examples of things that are needed to make a transportation system accessible. Public buses need to be accessible to those in wheelchairs. Drivers need to announce their stops out loud to benefit visually impaired persons who ride the bus. Telephones, drinking fountains, and restrooms inside the terminal should also be accessible.
By: Protection and Advocacy for People with Disabilities
Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) - Mediation
(Separate Website)
The Department of Justice (DOJ) has contracted with the Key Bridge Foundation to provide mediators for ADA disputes under Titles II (state and local government) and III (public accommodations) of the ADA. Enclosed is information from both DOJ and the Key Bridge Foundation about the mediation program.
By: Protection and Advocacy for People with Disabilities
Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) & Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act: College Students
(Separate Website)
If you are a college student and you have a disability, two federal laws protect you from discrimination based on your disability.Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) protects people with disabilities from discrimination by state funded schools such as state universities, community colleges and vocational schools. If you feel that a state funded school has discriminated against you because of your disability you may have a claim under Title II of the ADA. Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 also protects college students with disabilities. Under this law any school that receives federal funds may not discriminate on the basis of a disability. Most (but not all) post-secondary schools receive federal funding in the form of federal grants to pay student tuition.
By: Protection and Advocacy for People with Disabilities
Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), Title III
(Separate Website)
The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) secures equal opportunity for individuals with disabilities in employment, public accommodations, transportation, state and local government services and telecommunications. Title III of the ADA applies to public accommodations, which are private entities that are open to the public.
By: Protection and Advocacy for People with Disabilities
Americans with Disabilities Act Business Connection
(Separate Website)
The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) is a Federal civil rights law that prohibits discrimination against people with disabilities in everyday activities, such as buying an item at the store, going to the movies, enjoying a meal at a local restaurant, exercising at the health club, or having the car serviced at a local garage. This web site contains information about the Federal laws that establish requirements for businesses of all sizes to accommodate the needs of disabled people. These requirements went into effect on January 26, 1992.
By: U.S. Department of Justice
Civil Rights and HIV / AIDS
(Separate Website)
Ever since the emergence of AIDS in the early 1980s, our nation has been struggling to cope with this terrible disease. But the widespread fear stirred by the AIDS crisis has made the careful development of public policy difficult. There have been unwise calls for the curtailment of individual rights and liberties, and people with AIDS have often faced irrational discrimination -- job firings, exclusions from school, and denials of access to health care.
By: American Civil Liberties Union
Civil Rights-Related Information for People with Disabilities
(Separate Website)
Find civil rights-related information from the Federal government for people with disabilities from this section of the DisabilityInfo.gov web site, including information about: The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and Other Disability Rights Laws, Community Access, Community Rights and Responsibilities, Educational Rights, Employment Rights and Responsibilities, Health Rights, Housing Rights, Technology Rights, and Transportation Rights.
By: First Gov - Your First Click is the U.S. Government
Disabilities Rights
(Separate Website)
The Americans with Disabilities Act was signed into law in 1990. The evidence of its success is everywhere. Handicap parking spaces, Braille instructions on ATM's, and ramps built into sidewalks have all become commonplace fixtures that make an enormous difference in the lives of persons with disabilities.
By: American Civil Liberties Union
DisabilityInfo.gov, the comprehensive Federal website of disability-related government resources
(Separate Website)
This web site provides a comprehensive list of the federal government's online information for people with disabilities. From the DisabilityInfo.gov home page you may select the category of information or services you're interested in from tabs at the top of the page. From the DisabilityInfo.gov home page you can also use the search function to look for any information by typing in related words.
By: First Gov - Your First Click is the U.S. Government
Employment Discrimination
(Separate Website)
There are several federal laws prohibiting employment discrimination against people with disabilities. These laws apply to all state and local government employers and to private employers with 15 or more employees. In South Carolina, employers are also subject to the South Carolina Human Affairs Law, which provides employees with disabilities the same protections as the federal laws.
Equal Credit Opportunity Act
(Separate Website)
Lawline FAQ: This act applies to banks, savings and loan associations, credit unions, finance companies, department stores, credit card issuers, car and appliance dealers and all others who regularly grant credit. The Act does not guarantee credit. You must still pass the creditor's tests of creditworthiness, but the tests must be applied impartially, and without discrimination based on race, color, religion, national origin, sex, marital status, age, receipt of public assistance or because you exercise your rights under federal laws.
By: South Carolina Bar Association
Guide to Disability Rights Laws
(Separate Website)
This document, last updated August 2001, explains each of the Federal civil rights laws protecting people with disabilities, including the Americans with Disabilities Act, Telecommunications Act, Fair Housing Act, Air Carrier Access Act, Voting Accessibility for the Elderly and Handicapped Act, National Voter Registration Act, Civil Rights of Institutionalized Persons Act, Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, Rehabilitation Act, and the Architectural Barriers Act. The document contains other sources of disability rights information as well.
By: U.S. Department of Justice
Housing-Related Information for People with Disabilities
(Separate Website)
Find housing-related information for people with disabilities in this section of the DisabilityInfo.gov web site, including: Accessibility, Housing Options,
Links to Laws and Policy, and Your Housing Rights.
By: First Gov - Your First Click is the U.S. Government
How to File a Discrimination Charge
(Separate Website)
This web page, from the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) web site, shows you how to file a discrimination charge if you believe you have been discriminated against by an employer, labor union or employment agency when applying for a job or while on the job because of your race, color, sex, religion, national origin, age, or disability, or believe that you have been discriminated against because of opposing a prohibited practice or participating in an equal employment opportunity matter.
By: U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
Now...And The Future
(Separate Website)
Resource Planning Guide for Persons with Disabilities and Their Families
By: SC Department of Disabilities and Special Needs
Practical Guide to Services
(Separate Website)
Detailed information about programs and services available for people with disabilities. The guide also lists family support organizations, advocacy groups and other agencies which provide services to people with disabilities.
By: SC Department of Disabilities and Special Needs
Reasonable Accommodations & Your Rights as an Employee
(Separate Website)
The packet is designed to provide basic information about reasonable accommodation for employees with physical or mental disabilities.
By: Protection and Advocacy for People with Disabilities
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