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Disability Rights Florida Files Lawsuit Against Florida Department of Children and Families for Unlawfully Failing to Track Baker Act Use
Helpful Terms Involuntary Psychiatric Examination: a legal process where a person is taken to a mental health facility for evaluation against their will, typically when there is a reasonable belief that they have a mental illness and pose a danger to themselves or others, and are unable to make informed…
US Department of Labor (DOL) invites public comment on proposed regulation to stop Subminimum Wage
An American Association of People with Disabilities (AAPD) press release recently announced, “the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) , inviting public comment on its proposed regulation to stop the practice of issuing new 14c certificates to employers and phase the use of existing…
DRF joins 194 other organizations calling on the FDA to release the final rule banning electrical stimulation devices
Disability Rights Florida (DRF) deeply appreciates the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA’s) continued efforts to ban the use of electrical stimulation devices (ESDs) used to treat self-injurious or aggressive behavior, and we urge the FDA to take all necessary steps to release the final rule banning these devices as soon…
Encore Episode: Paving a Way Disabled in STEM - with Dr. Anita Marshall
An encore presentation of an episode originally published in July 2023.
Encore Episode: The Intersection of Disability and Reproductive Justice - with Morénike Giwa Onaiwu, Rebecca Cokley, Keith Jones, and Heather Watkins
An encore presentation of an episode originally released in August 2022.
Upcoming Webinar - Hearing Preparation: Witnesses and Documents
When Wednesday, December 4, 2024 from 11 am - 12 noon Where Zoom - watch the recording here! Accessibility ASL interpreters CART English and translated captioning About As a continuation of our series Navigating Medicaid Waivers and Fair Hearings, this webinar focuses on gathering witnesses and the necessary documents in…
Encore Episode: Disability Media Representation - with Beth Haller and Jeff Preston
An encore presentation of an episode originally released in February 2021.
Florida Medicaid Now Covers Incontinence Supplies
Background The Florida Health Justice Project and Disability Rights Florida brought a class action lawsuit against Florida’s Agency for Health Care Administration (AHCA). AHCA, as the state’s Medicaid agency, was refusing to cover medically necessary incontinence supplies for adults over the age of 21. We were successful and settled the…
Disability and Sexual Violence Awareness
Content warning : discussion of sexual violence, intimate partner violence, and caregiver violence against people with disabilities. Also, both 'disabled person' and 'person with disability' are used throughout this blog to refer to people with disabilities. The author of this blog is disabled and uses both terms. Introduction People with…