Stimulus plans bypass access requirements, they say

From the Boston Globe:

Massachusetts disability advocates say they are angry that the governor’s plan for spending federal stimulus money does not include project reviews for disability access.

Activists are threatening legal action and planning to protest a Monday meeting of the state Architectural Access Board. They fear that if the state overlooks accessibility in its rush to put federal stimulus funds to use, it will never find the money to make the buildings accessible.

“For the governor to put a document out that says the first thing we’re going to do is abrogate the rights of people with disabilities in order to spend the stimulus money is a real slap in the face to people with disabilities who have fought for civil rights for so many years,” said Bill Allan, executive director of the Disability Policy Consortium, a Boston-based organization of volunteer disability rights activists.

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