The Department is authorized under 28 C.F.R. § 12133, to bring a civil action enforcing title II of the ADA should the Department fail to secure voluntary compliance pursuant to Subpart F.ģ. Furthermore, the Attorney General is authorized, under 42 U.S.C. Part 35, Subpart F, to determine the compliance of the County with title II of the ADA and the Department's title II implementing regulation, to issue findings, and, where appropriate, to negotiate and secure voluntary compliance agreements. The ADA applies to the County because it is a “public entity” as defined by title II. The Department reviewed the County’s policies and procedures regarding voting, emergency management and disaster prevention, and sidewalk maintenance to evaluate whether persons with disabilities have an equal opportunity to utilize these programs.įinally, the Department reviewed the County’s Sheriff’s Department’s policies and procedures regarding providing effective communication to persons who are deaf or hard-of-hearing.ġ. This review was limited to the areas of the facilities used by the voting public: parking, the route from the parking area to the area used for voting, and the area used for voting. Kinyon Twin Springs Moark Oak Grove Old Loughead Lake Road Fisk Brosley Qulin Fagus Coon Island Hillsville The Department conducted a program access review of the following polling places: The Department’s program access review covered those of the County’s programs, services, and activities that operate in the following facilities: Justice Center Health Center Highway Department Prosecutor’s Office § 35.163(b).Īs part of its compliance review, the Department reviewed the following facilities, which – because construction or alterations commenced after Janu– must comply with the ADA’s new construction or alterations requirements: to provide signage at all inaccessible entrances to each of its facilities, directing users to an accessible entrance or to information about accessible facilities, 28 C.F.R.to provide information for interested persons with disabilities concerning the existence and location of the County’s accessible services, activities, and facilities, 28 C.F.R.to provide direct access via TTY (text telephone) or computer-to-telephone emergency services, including 9-1-1 services, for persons who use TTY’s and computer modems, 28 C.F.R.to ensure that communications with applicants, participants, and members of the public with disabilities are as effective as communications with others, including furnishing auxiliary aids and services when necessary, 28 C.F.R.to ensure that facilities for which construction or alteration was begun after January 26, 1992, are readily accessible to and usable by people with disabilities, in accordance with 1) the Department’s title II regulation and 2) the Standards or UFAS, 28 C.F.R.A, or the Uniform Federal Accessibility Standards (UFAS), 41 C.F.R.
§ 35.151, and the ADA Standards for Accessible Design (Standards), 28 C.F.R. physical changes to buildings (required to have been made by January 26, 1995), in accordance with the Department’s title II regulation, 28 C.F.R.delivery of services, programs, or activities in alternate ways, including, for example, redesign of equipment, reassignment of services, assignment of aides, home visits, or other methods of compliance or, if these methods are not effective in making the programs accessible,.to operate each program, service, or activity so that, when viewed in its entirety, it is readily accessible to and usable by individuals with disabilities, 28 C.F.R.
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