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Disability & Other Bias
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Hoover police offer aids to help disabled people interact with law enforcement
5+ hour, 46+ min ago (214+ words) The Hoover Police Department and The Arc of Shelby County are partnering this week to provide a tool to help people with developmental disabilities have safer interactions with law enforcement. The two agencies are offering a training workshop at the…...
Almost 4,000 safeguarding concerns raised in adult disability services in first half of year
5+ hour, 43+ min ago (457+ words) Social Democrats TD for Cork East Liam Quaide said the scale of the figures was 'deeply concerning'. There were nearly 4,000 safeguarding concerns raised within adult disability services over the first six months of this year, new HSE data shows. The…...
Harkins v Marks and Spencer plc: EAT dismisses disability harassment appeal and sets out approach to unwanted conduct
6+ hour, 42+ min ago (186+ words) Solicitors Journal The Employment Appeal Tribunal has dismissed a former Marks and Spencer manager's appeal against the rejection of her disability harassment, discrimination arising from disability and reasonable adjustments claims, while setting out an approach to harassment in performance management....
Guest Opinion | Why a Mental Illness Advocate Supports a New Jail and Sheriff’s Office
6+ hour, 40+ min ago (508+ words) The Daily Iowan Guest Opinion | Why a Mental Illness Advocate Supports a New Jail and Sheriff’s Office I have spent years advocating for people with serious mental illness and for a system that treats illness as illness—not as a…...
Wakulla County sheriff’s office, Sopchoppy church build ramp for 91-year-old resident
5+ hour, 31+ min ago (188+ words) CRAWFORDVILLE, Fla. -- A 91-year-old Wakulla County woman is now able to get in and out of her Crawfordville home more safely after the Wakulla County Sheriff’s Office partnered with Sopchoppy Southern Baptist Church to build an accessibility ramp. The Wakulla…...
Oklahoma County jail rivals state mental health hospitals, administrator says
11+ hour, 30+ min ago (74+ words) The Oklahoman Oklahoma County jail rivals state mental health hospitals, administrator says Jail administrator Tim Kimrey wants it known that the Oklahoma County jail is not a mental health hospital. Statistics presented to the county jail trust paint a different…...
Large police presence on Highway 218 tied to reported mental health crisis
12+ hour, 26+ min ago (105+ words) KCJJ A large law enforcement presence on Highway 218 Saturday night was the result of a mental health crisis. Iowa City Police, University Heights Police, the Johnson County Sheriff’s Office and the Iowa State Patrol all responded to the bridge over…...
Methodology ‘still restriction of liberty’
13+ hour, 27+ min ago (460+ words) PETALING JAYA: A prisoner serving a sentence under house arrest may be at home but is still deprived of liberty and being outside prison walls does not mean being free. Universiti Malaya Faculty of Law senior lecturer and criminologist Dr…...
Disability pension: the forces must disprove your claim
15+ hour, 23+ min ago (1002+ words) The Supreme Court has thrown out about 271 appeals the Centre filed against disabled ex-servicemen, and restated the rule that protects them: the department has to show your disability had nothing to do with service. There is one exception, and it…...
Pocatello police searching for missing 11-year-old boy with autism
3+ day, 21+ hour ago (87+ words) POCATELLO â Police are asking for the public's help in the search for a missing 11-year-old Pocatello boy with autism. Pocatello police searching for missing 11-year-old boy with autism Idaho State Police seek driver who fled Island Park crash that…...