disabilities

U.S. District Judge Xavier Rodriguez found the state's ID requirements for mail ballot applications in the state's 2021 voter security law SB1 discriminates against voters with disabilities.

The U.S. Department of Justice announced Friday that it has reasonable cause to believe that the state of Oklahoma, Oklahoma City and the Oklahoma City Police Department discriminate against people with behavioral health disabilities.

Oklahoma Human Services is launching a joint initiative on Feb. 1 to recruit and retain direct support professionals amid what the agency says is a statewide shortage.

How are Texans with disabilities – more than 3.5 million people, though some estimates say that number is much higher – building lives of independence and dignity, and participating in the culture of our state? How does public policy offer support – or create barriers?

If the governor signs SB 133, school police will be barred from handcuffing elementary students.

Lawmakers promised to clear Oklahoma’s 13-year wait for disability services but a caregiver shortage means families still don’t have the help they need.

A Kansas law passed in 2021 made it illegal for one person to deliver more than 10 advance voting ballots on behalf of other voters, and puts additional restrictions on handling and verifying advanced ballots.

Because caregivers can often make far higher wages doing other kinds of work, disabled people have difficulty finding and keeping attendants.

Disability rights advocates say the state has not provided enough guidance about the type of help people with disabilities can and cannot receive under new voting laws passed last year.

The Oklahoma agency in charge of helping residents with disabilities find jobs recently received an injection of funding, and the new money has helped the…