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News Advisory
NCD #03-396
February 3, 2003
Contact: Mark S. Quigley
202-272-2004
202-272-2074 TTY
mquigley@ncd.gov
National Council on Disability to Release Analysis
of Federal Enforcement of Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act
WASHINGTON--The National Council on Disability (NCD)
will release a report analyzing federal enforcement of Section 504
of the Rehabilitation Act, at a press availability at 10:00 a.m.
on Friday, February 14, 2003, at NCD, 1331 F Street, NW, Suite 850,
Washington, DC.
Section 504 of the 1973 Rehabilitation Act is acknowledged
as the first national civil rights law to view the exclusion and
segregation of people with disabilities as discrimination and to
declare that the Federal Government would take a central role in
reversing and eliminating this discrimination. Section 504, which
prohibits federal agencies and federally funded programs from discriminating
on the basis of disability, was designed to promote and expand opportunities
for persons with a broad range of disabilities and offer broad-based
protection from unwarranted discrimination stemming from prejudice,
social stigmas, and negative assumptions about their ability to
fully participate in the mainstream of society.
The following experts will be available at the press
availability to discuss the report:
Graham Hill, NCD Member
Jeffrey T. Rosen, NCD General Counsel and Director of Policy
Martin Gould, Ed.D., NCD Senior Research Specialist
Sara Pratt, Esq., Fair Housing and Civil Rights Consultant
Bonnie Milstein, Esq., Partner, Milstein and Magar
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