Andy Imparato

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Bday #FF in honor of year 43!🥂 @1SirCrypto @AndyDRC @EleshaJD @itscarolinecole @ParisHilton @adopteelaw @SerenaFreeHer1 @SenSaraGelser @BruceLesley @ICARSBanRandS @sandinistaoliva @ErinViehmann @aosimmons_law @ShiaKapos @tylerkingkade @cdetler @maiasz @MRFIVEINC @garyhgoodridge

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Last week, two leading disability rights organizations hosted an education summit in recognition of the 50th anniversary of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA). Disability Rights California (DRC) and the Disability Rights and Education Defense Fund (DREDF) brought a panel of leading experts in the disability education space to reflect on the history of education for students with disabilities and to look ahead to building a more inclusive educational future for students across the disability community. Check out the full press release at the link: disabilityrightsca.org/press-release/… It was an incredible experience to discuss how far we have come and strategize together to overcome current barriers. Our work continues as we navigate through slashed funding and staffing in the Department of Education and Office of Civil Rights. Together we will protect IDEA and ensure all students with disabilities have access to quality, public education and services regardless of their background. DRC's Senior Attorney in the Youth Practice Group Allegra Cira Fischer shared about this anniversary, "the IDEA is a defining civil rights law that ensures students with disabilities have the right to a free and appropriate public education. While our current system is far from perfect, before the IDEA, millions of disabled young people were regularly institutionalized in unsafe settings and unable to attend school at all. As federal civil rights protections for schoolchildren are dismantled, we must remain vigilant to protect the gains made over the past 50 years and also fight for greater equity as we look to the future of education for students with disabilities." #DisabilityRightsCA #IDEA50 #Anniversary #Summit #IDEA @AndyDRC @emony21 @lateefahsimon @MarkDeSaulnier

Video Transcript: (Richard) This facility has proven over the years that they don't they can't provide the adequate services, medical, mental health services for people, especially with people with disabilities. You too can have keep programs their pain heading. They just give you a like a little tiny little person. There's no you have to buy it at the commissary. (Former Detainee #2) You you can have hip problems, their pain hurting. They just give you a like a little Tylenol, that's it. If not, you have to buy it at the commissary. (Former Detainee #1) If they had any medication and if they would extract the molar they said no, because you have to be detained at least 6 months in order to get the molar extracted. They only had Tylenol and it took like 6 hours for them to give you one Tylenol. And for example, I got sick many times and I had to send in a kite. You have to send in a kite in order to have a nurse come out but I never got a response. I never saw anyone. No one asked me, and it wasn't just me. There's a lot of people, because in the beginning everyone was ill because everything was really really dirty. So everybody was ill. (Richard) I think our opinion, as DRC, that we don't think that people with disabilities can be adequately housed at this facility.

DRC's Investigations Unit (IU) investigates allegations of abuse and neglect of people with disabilities in a wide range of settings where people live and receive services. In 2025, we saw dramatic shifts in U.S. immigration policy and enforcement, along with a steep increase in the number of people detained nationwide. In June, our team toured several areas of the Adelanto Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Processing Center in San Bernardino County, California and interviewed 18 people detained there, as well as staff and representatives from the private prison contractor GEO Group, which operates Adelanto. Investigators found a lack of basic necessities, including inadequate food, safe drinking water, and clean clothing, as well as a lack of critical medical and mental health care. They found that Adelanto continues to create conditions that result in the abuse and neglect of people with disabilities. Watch the full documentary in DRC's 2025 Annual Report: disabilityrightsca.org/2025-annual-re… Explore the team's full finding's, published in the report, “They Treat Us Like Dogs in Cages”, at the link: disabilityrightsca.org/drc-advocacy/i… --------- DRC's 2025 Annual Report is now LIVE. Dig into the full report on our website at the link: disabilityrightsca.org/2025-annual-re… Learn more about our work at Adelanto Day and explore all eight of our featured story videos, also available in ASL and Audio Description versions. #DisabilityRightsCA #Adelanto #ICE #Investigation #SanBernadino #GEOgroup @IC4IJ

In the summer of 2025, Disability Rights California (DRC) co-founded a statewide civil rights coalition in response to the dismantling of the U.S. Department of Education and its Office for Civil Rights (OCR). Mass layoffs and regional office closures at OCR in the spring of 2025 signaled the federal administration’s turn away from civil rights enforcement for students with protected characteristics, eliminating one of the most effective means of relief for students with disabilities, students of color, and others experiencing discrimination in school. DRC has joined together with 14 education advocacy partners to assess the state of civil rights enforcement in education in California, meet with policymakers and other stakeholders, and formulate public policy recommendations to improve education equity and advance civil rights protections for California students. Our partner, the Stanford Mills Legal Clinic, is the lead drafter of this collaborative report, Strengthening Civil Rights Enforcement in California Schools, which comes at a time when Governor Newsom, the Assembly Education Committee, and others in Sacramento are considering state education governance reforms. Whether or not those reforms come to pass, now is the time to improve and streamline state-level anti-discrimination protections for students in our schools. Learn more and read the full report at the link: disabilityrightsca.org/latest-news/st… #DisabilityRightsCA #CivilRights #Students #Education #OCR #Report #Reform . . Image Description: Header Text: Report. Blue/green DRC logo. Title Text: Strengthening Civil Rights Enforcement in California Schools. Below, an image of the top dome of the California Capitol building with and American flag and California flag near. Text Over Image: A Call for Sacramento to Fill the Gap Created by Washington D.C. Below, 7 logos for a variety of organizations.

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#FF time! So much love for y'all! @EleshaJD @AndyDRC @1SirCrypto @ErinViehmann @garyhgoodridge @ICARSBanRandS @ICARSBecky @JayRuderman @SenSaraGelser @AttorneyCrump @WillDobud @JudgeWren @ParisHilton @tylerkingkade @ShiaKapos @BruceLesley @sandinistaoliva @maiasz @MRFIVEINC

This week on my AXSChat podcast How a museum in Berlin allows disabled visitors to touch and access science with using digital twins. buff.ly/zSC1azb #TechNews @ArturHabant @elaniazito @IanLJones98 @CurieuxExplorer @Shi4Tech @enilev @Fabriziobustama @mvollmer1 @AnthonyRochand @JolaBurnett @lyakovet @debashis_dutta @3itcom @ahier @Analytics_699 @antgrasso @CathCervoni @chidambara09 @DigitalColmer @dinisguarda @DimitriHommel @EvanKirstel @FrRonconi @GlenGilmore @gvalan @HeinzVHoenen @ipfconline1 @jeancayeux @jorgecunha @kalydeoo @nafisalam @Nicochan33 @pierrepinna @PawlowskiMario @puneetsinghal22 @ralph_ohr @RLDI_Lamy @rshevlin @sarbjeetjohal @SpirosMargaris @StefanoDeCupis @tewoz @thomas_dettling @Ym78200 @aure79lien @jblefevre60

How do you become an informed voter? One way is to read the materials from your county and state elections officials. We also hope the following voter guides from trusted nonpartisan sources will help you: League of Women Voters’ Easy Voter Guide, in five languages (English, Spanish, Chinese, Vietnamese, and Korean) @LWVC: cavotes.org/easy-voter-gui…. CalMatters’ 2026 Voter Guide @calmatters: calmatters.org/california-vot…. If you have questions or are having difficulty voting because of a disability, DRC’s voting hotline is open year-round on weekdays during business hours (9:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m.) (and longer hours on Election Day). Call us at (888) 569-7955. We will continue to share voting resources on DRC social media as Election Day gets closer! #DisabilityRightsCA #VotingResource #LeagueOfWomenVoters #CalMatters #Vote #CaliforniaPrimary #VoterGuide