Disability & Other Bias

9+ hour, 39+ 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…...

9+ hour, 36+ 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…...

10+ hour, 35+ 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....

10+ hour, 33+ 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…...

9+ hour, 23+ 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…...

15+ hour, 23+ 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…...

17+ hour, 19+ 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…...

4+ day, 1+ hour ago   (87+ words) POCATELLO — 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…...

5+ day, 17+ hour ago   (169+ words) The Scottish Solicitors’ Benevolent Fund is open for applications. Shelley Matheson, vice president, Scottish Law Agents Society and trustee, Scottish Solicitors’ Benevolent Fund, said: “It’s no secret we’re living through a cost of living crisis, and even people in professional…...

5+ day, 16+ hour ago   (286+ words) An 80-year-old Independence, Missouri, man has pleaded guilty in federal court to fraudulently obtaining $124,262 in disability-related payments from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs after admitting he fabricated claims about combat service, military decorations, and a medical diagnosis. James Lyon admitted…...