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dLCV in the News

Keep up with breaking dLCV and disability news.  Find all the latest headlines where dCLV is featured.

• Judge rules in favor of immunocompromised students, but masking still optional in Virginia (March 25, 2022)
• Federal judge sides with 12 disabled kids seeking masks in schools (March 24, 2022)
• Services for Students with Disabilities removes barriers within the Virginia Tech community (February 25, 2022)
• The Dangerous Conditions That Shut Down State Mental Hospitals Last Summer Still Haven’t Gone Away (February 16, 2022)
• Manassas mom, 11 other Va. families file federal lawsuit challenging Youngkin’s mask order (February 2, 2022)
• Virginia governor’s mask order prompts dueling lawsuits (February 1, 2022)
• Parents of students with disabilities file lawsuit challenging Virginia Gov. Youngkin’s mask mandate ban (February 1, 2022)
• Parents of students with disabilities sue Youngkin over mask-optional order (February 1, 2022)
• One Virginia lawsuit challenges Youngkin’s mask order, another sides with it (February 1, 2022)

2021

• Human Potential at Work: Protecting the Rights of People with Disabilities (November 15, 2021)
• Visually impaired Virginia voters can now vote electronically, privately (October 15, 2021)
• $33 million awarded to 26 Virginia-based organizations to assist victims of sexual assault and domestic violence (October 9, 2021)
• EDVA Announces Over $33 Million in Justice Department Grants to Assist Victims of Sexual Assault and Domestic Violence (October 8, 2021)
• The Floodgates are open: Mayor proposes City Council public commentary more accessible than ever (June 25, 2021)
• Opinion/Editorial: Mental health deaths require study (June 20, 2021)
• Report: Va. mental hospitals reported uptick in deaths during pandemic (June 11, 2021)
• Deaths rose in Virginia’s mental hospitals last year, but COVID-19 wasn’t the prime culprit (June 10, 2021)
• Involuntary commitment bills aim to reform Virginia’s behavioral health processes (June 8, 2021)
• Sheppard Mullin Helps Safe Win For Voters With Disabilities (May 17, 2021)
• Laid-off Army veteran must pay back four months of unemployment benefits after VEC mistake (May 14, 2021)
• Legal groups call on Staunton Council to rethink public input options (May 4, 2021)
• ACLU warns Staunton mayor Oakes of potential 1st Amendment, Disabilities Act violations (May 4, 2021)
• Senator Kaine and Mayor Oakes weigh in on ACLU’s federal violation concerns for Staunton (May 1, 2021)
• Virginia Agrees to Provide Accessible Absentee Voting Option for Voters with Print Disabilities (April 20, 2021)
• Lawmakers amend Virginia Human Rights Act; kill workplace harassment bills (March 4, 2021)
• More rights for Va. disabled and domestic workers (March 5, 2021)
• Democrats push to preserve pandemic voting access measures (January 30, 2021)

2020

• Following Lawsuit, Virginia Will Allow Residents With Vision Impairments To Receive Mail-In Ballots Electronically (September 1, 2020)
• Blind people are suing over their voting options. In Virginia, their action brought results (September 1, 2020)
• Virginia Agrees to Provide Accessible Absentee Voting Option for Voters with Print Disabilities (September 31, 2020)
• Advocates for Blind Sue States for Mail-In Ballot Discrimination (July 31, 2020)
• Spanberger conducts two-day civil rights tour, advocates for dignity of 7th District residents (February 26, 2020)
• U.S. Representative Abigail Spanberger convenes two-day tour focused on Civil Rights (February 18, 2020)

2019

• Here’s how the deaf and hard-of-hearing are struggling in silence in Hampton Roads.  (September 10, 2019)
• More than 200 patients cleared for release are stuck in limbo at state hospitals.  (August 21, 2019)
• Over 200 Virginians Stuck In State Mental Hospitals After OK’d To Leave.  (August 13, 2019)
• Cleared to leave Virginia’s overcrowded mental hospitals, many patients have nowhere to go.  (August 11, 2019)
• McEachin, Langevin re-introduce bill to strengthen ADA.  (July 26, 2019)
• Marion site has only state mental health graveyard in far SW Virginia.  (July 13, 2019)
• New regulations on restraint and seclusion to provide safer environment for students.  (May 13, 2019)
• Businesses hit by lawsuits over online accessibility for the blind.  (May 8, 2019)
• ‘It’s not a prison’: Children physically restrained and isolated In Virginia schools.  (April 19, 2019)
• disAbility Law Center of Virginia gala celebrates inclusion.  (April 16, 2019)
• Critics Say Proposed Policies On Seclusion And Restraint In Virginia Don’t Go Far Enough.  (April 3, 2019)
• Draft Regulations Limit Restraint, Seclusion of Virginia Students.  (March 20, 2019)
• Proposed Regulations Governing the Use of Seclusion and Restraint in Virginia’s Public Schools.  (February 2019)
• Mourning an Unspeakable Crime.  (February 26, 2019)
• Update: Bill to prevent CVTC closure fails, companion bill still alive.  (January 29, 2019)

Archives

• Liberty and Justice for All Gala.  (December 2018)
• Gauging accessibility at Montgomery County’s polls.  (November 11, 2018)
• Volunteers Survey Accessibility of Polling Places for People with Disabilities.  (October 2018)
• Deadliest Year at State Mental Health Facilities.  (September 2018)
• Southwestern Virginia Training Center Closes.  (August 2018)
• Local Group Allowed to Tour Juvenile Detention Center Under Fire for Abuse. (July 27, 2018)
• Liberty and Justice for all Gala raises money for Virginians with disabilities.  (April 4, 2018)
• Local Nonprofit Helps Thousands of People with Disabilities.  (March 20, 2018)
• All About the Disability Law Center of Virginia.  (August 2017)
• Report Shows Several Deaths at Central Virginia Training Center Related to UTIs.  (May 22, 2017)
• disAbility Law Center of Virginia Gala Sets Record for Attendance.  (May 2016)
• disAbility Law Center of Virginia Holds Gala.  (April 21, 2016)
• Veteran with Disability Asks for Accessible Bathroom Option at Local Parks.  (November 9, 2015)
• VOPA becoming The disAbility Law Center of Virginia!  (June 2013)

Director’s Blog

The Director’s blog is a way of alerting you to news and developments in disability law.

• What Does It Mean To Move To Community Living?  (September 28, 2019)
• They Need a Voice.  (January 25, 2019)
• The Cost of Education.  (December 26, 2018)
• Voting in Virginia.  (November 20, 2018)