- Education
Over 200 Organizations Oppose Re-Opening WIOA Regulations
November 21, 2019
The organizations wrote a letter to the OSERS Acting Assistant, Secretary Shultz to express unequivocal opposition to opening the…
Letter - COVID-19
Senators Urge Leadership to Provide Additional Funding for the P&As
July 2, 2020
The letter urges Senate leadership to provide a minimum of $30 million in financial support to the Developmental Disabilities…
Letter - COVID-19
Disability Rights New York Files Lawsuit Challenging NY’s Absentee Voter Process
May 28, 2020
DRNY filed a lawsuit, with Disability Rights Advocates and Brown Goldstein & Levy LLP, against NYS Board of Election…
Litigation and Legal Decisions - Voting
Blocking the Ballot Box: Ending Misuse of the ADA to Close Polling Places
January 30, 2020
Voters across the country are still being denied equal access to the ballot box and this includes voters with…
Publication - Community Integration
Desperation without Dignity: Conditions of Children Placed in For Profit Residential Facilities
October 14, 2021
This report provides a comprehensive review of investigations by the nation’s Protection and Advocacy agencies and others in eighteen…
Publication - Education
Orphanages, Training Schools, Reform Schools and Now This? Recommendations to Prevent the Disproportionate Placement and Inadequate Treatment of Children with Disabilities in the Juvenile Justice System
April 12, 2023
Children with disabilities are disproportionately placed in the juvenile justice system, receive inadequate treatment and are denied educational opportunities.
Publication - Census
Count Everyone, Include Everyone: The Need for Disability Inclusion and Representation in Federal Data
October 20, 2021
People with disabilities are in every community, and it is long overdue that federal data collection and calculations do…
Publication - Employment
Unfinished Business
October 28, 2021
Reflections on National Disability Employment Awareness Month
Statement - COVID-19
NDRN Joins the CCD Rights Task Force to Express Strong Support for Key Provisions of the HEROES Act
June 16, 2020
The letter calls on Congress to support key provisions of the HEROES Act and urges the Senate to act…
Letter - Community Integration
Disability Rights California Publishes Report on Immigration Detention
March 5, 2019
The report is on their investigation into conditions at the Adelanto Detention Center focused on the treatment of immigration…
Publication - Justice System
New Report Provides Strategies to Combat Mis-Incarceration of Children with Disabilities
October 21, 2019
The findings in "Probation Referral: Model for Diversion of Children and Youth with Disabilities from the Juvenile Justice System"…
Press Release - COVID-19
NDRN Joins Seven Disability Rights Organizations in Amicus Brief Responding to Alabama’s Emergency Motion to the U.S. Supreme Court Seeking to Stop Counties from Offering Curbside Voting
October 21, 2020
NDRN joined the American Diabetes Association and several other disability rights organizations in an amicus in Merrill v. People…
Amicus Brief Disability Rights Ohio Works to Stop the Spread in Jails and Prisons
April 17, 2020
The Ohio P&A sent letters to their Governor advocating that action be taken to stop the spread of COVID-19…
Letter- Voting
Voting Rights of Individuals Subject to Guardianship
July 13, 2023
This memorandum focuses on voting restrictions that disenfranchise some or all people with disabilities who are subject to a…
Publication - COVID-19
NDRN Joins CCD and the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law to Urge the Development of a Bar Admissions Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic
October 6, 2020
The letter urges the development of a bar admissions response to the COVID-19 pandemic that ensures the equitable treatment…
Letter - Community Integration
NDRN Joined 18 Other Disability Rights Organizations in an Amicus Brief in the Supreme Court on the Constitutionality and Severability of the Affordable Care Act
May 13, 2020
NDRN joined 18 other disability rights organizations in an amicus filed in the U.S. Supreme Court in California v.…
Amicus Brief - ADA & Civil Rights
Amicus Brief Filed in U.S. Supreme Court Case Emphasizes Importance of Testers to ADA Enforcement
August 10, 2023
Eighteen leading disability advocacy organizations have filed a “friend-of-the-court” brief in the U.S. Supreme Court in Acheson Hotels v.…
Press Release - COVID-19
Oklahoma Disability Law Center Files OCR Complaint
April 21, 2020
The Oklahoma Disability Law Center filed a complaint with the U.S. Health and Human Services Office of Civil Rights…
Letter - Employment
Fourth Circuit Affirms Summary Judgment for Employer in ADA Transfer Case Despite Amicus Support from NDRN, P&As, and EEOC
November 19, 2020
On November 19, 2020, the Fourth Circuit in Elledge v. Lowe's Home Centers, LLC, ___F.3d___, 2020 WL 6750363 (4th…
Amicus Brief - Education
The Problems with Threat Assessments in Schools
February 18, 2022
In this paper, a coalition of disability rights groups examines the practice of threat assessment.
