The Receipts · The Bar Record
The Bar Granted ADA Access, Then Denied Title II Applied
The State Bar of Georgia ran my disability accommodations and denied the disability law applied to it. In the same record. Sometimes in the same week.
What happened
On May 4, the Bar granted my accommodations: written-only communication, accessible-format documents. Real ADA functions, performed by a Bar lawyer who called himself the ADA Coordinator for my matter.
On May 12, a different Bar lawyer wrote that the State Bar “is not a public entity” and is “not required to have a published ADA Coordinator.”
So one office was administering the accommodation while the other was disowning the statute behind it. You cannot run the accommodation and disown the statute in the same breath. Well. You can. They did. It’s just written down now.
Why it matters
Here is what happened every time I asked this agency for disability access. Not the paperwork changed. The answer changed.
I asked for the ADA route. There wasn’t one on the website. Then there was a guy. Then the guy said the Bar might not be required to have him. Then the guy granted my accommodations anyway. Then a second lawyer said the ADA doesn’t apply to the Bar at all. I asked how the Bar has an ADA coordinator if the ADA doesn’t apply. Silence. Then they told me I write too well to need help, to a man who types with limited use of both hands. Then they decided the voice-to-text software I’d already paid thousands for was, conveniently, my accommodation. Then they closed the case.
One lawyer said the door didn’t exist. Another was standing in it.
What the record says
The grant and the denial are both in writing, eight days apart, from the same Office of the General Counsel. Neither email acknowledges the other. The Bar never reconciled the two positions because reconciling them would require admitting one of them was wrong.
What remains unanswered
Is Title II applicable, yes or no? I asked for a clean answer. What I got was a coverage position that moved from “not a public entity” to “Title III, not Title II” while the accommodations kept running the whole time. The one-word answer never came.
Part of The Receipts. See the open questions in the Question Ledger and the full State Bar record.