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An Update on Project Civic Access

presented by presented by Naomi Milton and Ame Eduardo, U.S. Department of Justice on May 6, 2010

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About the Training

Naomi Milton and Ame Eduardo, U.S. Dept. of Justice, Disability Rights Section will review enforcement activities undertaken by Project Civic Access. Project Civic Access is a wide-ranging effort by the Department of Justice to ensure that counties, cities, towns, and villages comply with the ADA by eliminating physical and communication barriers that prevent people with disabilities from participating fully in community life. To date the Department has conducted reviews in 50 states, as well as Puerto Rico and the District of Columbia. ADA Coordinators, towns, cities, persons with disabilities, and others will learn about the responsibilities of public entities to comply with the Americans with Disabilities Act. Recent settlement agreements and best practices for state and local governments will also be discussed.

About the Presenters

Naomi Milton has worked as an attorney in the Department of Justice enforcing the Americans with Disabilities Act since 1991. She came to the Department shortly after graduating from the University of Pennsylvania law school, and she became a supervisory attorney in the Disability Rights Section in 2000.

Ame Eduardo has worked as an Investigator with the Disability Rights Section for the last 10 years. Prior to her coming to the Department of Justice, she worked at the Department of Agriculture’s Civil Rights Division enforcing Title VI of the Civil Rights Act. Ms. Eduardo has worked on Project Civic Access since it’s inception in 1999 and to date has obtained 18 signed PCA settlement agreements.

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Presented by the DBTAC Southwest ADA Center, a program of ILRU (Independent Living Research Utilization), at TIRR Memorial Hermann in Houston, Texas. The DBTAC is funded by a grant (H133A060091) from the Department of Education's National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research (NIDRR).

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