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LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) - A Nebraska corrections official resigned in protest earlier this week after the department denied an inmate’s request for an abortion.
Hayden Thomas, who was the department’s Americans With Disabilities Act coordinator since 2019, resigned Monday.
In his resignation letter, he called the decision to deny the inmate an abortion morally and legally wrong because she had a constitutional right to the procedure, The Omaha World-Herald reported.
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“How can we possibly claim the moral authority to incarcerate others for forsaking the rule of law if we ourselves fail to uphold it and instead choose to engage in acts of public corruption or administrative malfeasance?,” Thomas wrote in his resignation letter.
How courts may make paid military leave as common as paid sick leave USERRA cases could one day wind up being heard by the Supreme Court. (Patrick Semansky/AP) A legal battle is unfolding over paid military leave in courtrooms across the country, as a new wave of class-action lawsuits and court rulings raises a question: are National Guard and Reserve troops entitled to paid short-term military leave under federal law? Reserve component troops are suing their employers across the country, arguing that the courts should interpret the Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act of 1994 to include paid leave as one of the “rights and benefits” protected under the law commonly known as USERRA. Their argument: short-term paid military leave is comparable to other forms of short-term paid leave like jury duty leave or sick leave, therefore employers who offer other paid leaves are violating USERRA if they don’t offer paid short-term military leave of comparable l
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Originally published on April 9, 2021 4:40 pm
State parks will become much more accessible under a new plan from the Oregon Parks and Recreation Department. Doors, parking lots and restrooms account for about half of the existing barriers for people with disabilities. Those should take about five years to fix, but the full plan is expected to take about 25 years. Advocates for people with disabilities say they’re heartened that parks will be brought into compliance with the federal Americans With Disabilities Act, passed more than 30 years ago. Our guests are Helena Kesch, the ADA coordinator for Oregon Parks & Rec, and Ashley Schahfer, owner and consultant of Empowering Access, who is a park user with disabilities.
No decision has been made.
Commissioners held a meeting last week with members of the board of elections to discuss the situation. It s just an advisory thing and to just share information back and forth to what their thoughts were, said Commissioner Al Landis.
One motivation for the discussions was the 2020 presidential election. During that election, nearly 75% of Tuscarawas County residents voted either by mail or in person - the highest turnout in county history.
Large numbers of people voted early at the board office at the courthouse. The room for early voting is small and can accommodate only two voting machines. Because of COVID-19 restrictions, the machines had to be sanitized after each person voted. That slowed down the process.