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U.S. Sen. Harkin: Resolution commemorating Olmstead decision

San Diego protests Governor's budget cuts

Disability Rights California rejects Conference Committee budget

Univeristy of Redlands professor honored for role in theater and

The parents of a 6-year-old with schizophrenia search for help

July 1, 2009

Who will and won't get IOUs?

Obama's Chance to Lead: Sign the Disability Treaty

Autistic children in the cross hairs of state budget crisis

Save the date - August 26, 2009

California Chronicle, 6/12/2009

Sun, 14 Jun 2009 05:55:00 -0500

California Chronicle, 6/12/2009

SFMTA joins Assemblywoman Ma to push for higher fines for disabled placard parking abuse - Seventeen letters of support have been provided to date from organizations and individuals such as Disability Rights California, the League of California Cities and SFMTA Director Bruce Oka.

June 13, 2009

San Diego Union Tribune, 6/11/09

Fri, 12 Jun 2009 19:44:00 -0500

San Diego Union Tribune, 6/11/09

Hospital stops taking certain ICE detainees - Mental health facility heeds group's concerns - A La Mesa psychiatric hospital has stopped accepting nonemergency cases of mentally ill immigration detainees, but the issue of whether such patients can be shackled to their beds or have other restrictions remains unresolved. ... Ann Menasche, a lawyer for [Disability Rights California], said she has not received from ICE any legal justification for what they are doing. Menasche also said that in her opinion, Ziemer and the hospital do not have to abide by the agency's shackling and security requirements. The hospital is licensed under state law, which gives strong rights to mental health patients, Menasche said. It's their facility, and they can say and I think they should say to ICE, Sure, we can take the patient, but they are going to get the same rights all patients get under California law, she said.

June 12, 2009

California Healthline, 6/10/09; Los Angeles Times, 6/10/09

Fri, 12 Jun 2009 00:33:00 -0500

California Healthline, 6/10/09; Los Angeles Times, 6/10/09

Democrats offer alternative to Schwarzenegger's budget plan - The governor's proposal to suspend some state mandates that require counties to provide some services is being met with resistance from some advocates, according to the Times. For example, Sean Rashkis, a lawyer for Disability Rights California, said mental health patients could be held in institutions months longer than necessary if the state suspends a mandate that guarantees attorneys during hearings to renew commitments to mental institutions. Schwarzenegger projects that the state could cut spending by $100 million by suspending some mandates.

June 11, 2009

San Diego Union Tribune, 5/26/09

Mon, 1 Jun 2009 17:39:00 -0500

San Diego Union Tribune, 5/26/09

Alvarado Hospital done with ICE - Where detainees with mental illness will go now is unclear - As a representative of Disability Rights California, [Ann] Menasche should be able to walk into any psychiatric facility to investigate allegations of abuse and neglect, but Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials were giving her the runaround, she said. Menasche said she plans to send letters to all San Diego County psychiatric facilities to alert them that if they accept ICE detainees, they should comply with patients rights. ...[ICE spokesperson Lauren] Mack said ICE is looking into policies pertaining to mentally ill detainees as part of a larger review of conditions at federal detention centers.

June 1, 2009

San Diego Union Tribune, 5/18/09

Wed, 20 May 2009 03:31:00 -0500

San Diego Union Tribune, 5/18/09

Advocates object to "excessive ... punitive" treatment ofimmigration detainees in psychiatric hospitals - Federal immigration officials send mentally ill detainees to a private psychiatric hospital in La Mesa [known as API], where they are shackled to beds 24 hours a day, prohibited from watching television or using the telephone, and cut off from family.

Ann Menasche, a lawyer with the legal advocacy group Disability Rights California, said she has been to API and has spoken to detainees there. In an eight-page letter sent to immigration officials April 24, Menasche said the conditions are excessive, unjustifiable and punitive.

May 19, 2009

Inland Empire Health Plan, 1/15/09

Fri, 16 Jan 2009 23:25:00 -0600

Inland Empire Health Plan, 1/15/09

Nations largest advocacy group for people with disabilities extols IEHP-sponsored collaborative - Disabilities Right California (DRC) recently honored the Inland Empire Health Plan-sponsored Disabilities Collaborative for its efforts in uniting and mobilizing organizations to better serve people with disabilities.

The Sacramento-based group, formerly Protection & Advocacy, Inc., presented Ben Jauregui, IEHP Disabilities Program Manager, a certificate of recognition at its 30th Anniversary Open House in Los Angeles. Community partners, clients and legislative allies attended.

January 16, 2009

Wed, 14 Jan 2009 23:30:00 -0600