- ADA & Civil Rights
Disability Rights Nebraska Receives 2025 Advocacy Award
June 5, 2025
Through determined and strategic efforts, the DRNE team has helped bring to light two major systemic civil rights violations in Nebraska—both now the focus of action by the U.S. Department of Justice. The first involves the unnecessary segregation of individuals with serious mental illness, and the second concerns discriminatory…
General - General
Disability Rights Maine Receives 2025 Advocacy Award
June 2, 2025
In a remote part of Maine, an individual with a representative payee was subjected to horrific conditions, neglect, and financial exploitation. Thanks to the swift and determined action of DRME, this individual is now safe and receiving the support and services they deserve.
General - Funding
National Disability Radio: Spilling the Tea on All Things
May 29, 2025
NDRN's Deputy Executive Director for Public Policy Eric Buehlmann came on the podcast to explain what's going on with the budget and how it impacts the funding NDRN and the Protection and Advocacy network receives.
Podcast - P&A Advocacy
Disability Network Warns: Eliminating ACL Will Endanger Lives, Erode Rights, and Collapse Community Supports for 1 in 4 Americans
April 24, 2025
A leaked draft budget from the Trump administration proposes eliminating the Administration for Community Living (ACL), threatening essential services for people with disabilities and older Americans. National disability organizations — NDRN, NACDD, and AUCD — strongly oppose the move, warning it would dismantle the Developmental Disabilities Network (P&As, DD…
Press Release - Education
Court of Appeals of Maryland Upholds “No Suspension” from School as Condition of Juvenile Probation
March 3, 2022
Disability Rights Maryland, NDRN, Council of Parent Attorneys and Advocates (COPAA) and several Maryland disability organizations filed an amicus in support of plaintiff
Amicus Brief