ADA Matters Because All People Matter

A DISABLED DAD’S ADA MATTERS
Georgia on My Mind
STATE BAR OF GEORGIA • CITY OF BROOKHAVEN • GIRMA, GMA, AND GALLAGHER BASSETT • GEORGIA POST • STATE ADA COORDINATOR’S OFFICE

Christian Sigman Knew Brookhaven’s ADA Coordinator Was Gone. The City’s Page Kept Her 14 More Days.

The Disabled Dad’s Daily

The City Manager put it in writing that Lillian Young, the City’s posted ADA Coordinator, was gone. The City’s ADA page kept sending disabled residents to her for 14 more days.

The short answer

On February 24, 2026, Christian Sigman, City Manager, City of Brookhaven, wrote that Lillian Young was no longer with the City. Her last day had been December 5, 2025. On March 10, 2026, the City’s Title II page still told disabled residents to send complaints to her: at least 95 days after she left, and 14 days after the City Manager wrote it down.

Scoreboard

Days the City’s Title II page named a departed employee as its ADA Coordinator at least 95
Of those, days after the City Manager put her departure in writing 14
Time from his email to an archived page still naming her 9 hours 35 minutes
People the City’s website names for ADA on October 23, 2026, across two pages 3

What happened

I am a disabled dad. I like dogs, donuts and dad jokes. I did not set out to write about the City of Brookhaven.

I asked the City of Brookhaven for a five minute call to discuss a customer service issue. No one would speak to me about it. So I filed 2 complaints. What else could I do? I would have left a Google review and moved on. I couldn’t find one.

So I did what the City’s own website told a disabled resident to do. The City’s Title II page said to contact the ADA Coordinator, Lillian Young, and to “Send complaints to: Lillian Young.”

Lillian Young had left the City on December 5, 2025. That is not her fault. She announced her last day in writing. The page kept her name. That is the City of Brookhaven’s problem.

On February 24, 2026, at 10:00 AM, Christian Sigman, the City Manager, wrote to me: “Lillian Young is no longer with the City of Brookhaven as HR Director.” Nine hours and 35 minutes later, the City’s Title II page still named her. On February 26, he wrote: “Please direct ADA grievances to Linda Warren.” On March 2, he wrote again: “FYI…Lillian Young is no longer with the City. Please summit ADA matters to Linda Warren directly.”

On March 10, 2026, the City’s Title II page still told disabled residents to send their complaints to Lillian Young.

Is this how they would treat their own sister if she were disabled?

When the City finally answered my accommodation request, on March 23, 2026, the letter attached to Linda G. Warren’s email said: “because others making an ORA request must pay a statutory portion of the expense, a disabled person must do the same.”

Read that again. An accommodation is, by definition, a different rule for a disability. The City of Brookhaven’s answer was that there would not be one.

Named is not trained. And the ones they named do not always stay. “We had one once” is not an ADA coordinator.

Today, October 23, 2026, the City of Brookhaven’s website names three people for ADA on two pages. One page says to contact “ADA Coordinator Linda Warren.” Another names Fire Marshal Joe Burge as “ADA Coordinator (Facilities & Public Access)” for Title II and Tom Roberts as an ADA Coordinator for Title III. It labels the City’s ADA grievance process “Title VII.” Title VII is the federal employment discrimination law. The ADA is a different law.

In February: one coordinator who did not work there. In October: three.

What they wrote

  • February 24, 2026, 10:00 AM, Christian Sigman, City Manager: “Lillian Young is no longer with the City of Brookhaven as HR Director.”
  • February 26, 2026, 2:47 PM, Christian Sigman: “Please direct ADA grievances to Linda Warren.”
  • March 2, 2026, Christian Sigman: “FYI…Lillian Young is no longer with the City. Please summit ADA matters to Linda Warren directly.”
  • March 23, 2026, the letter attached to Linda G. Warren’s email: “because others making an ORA request must pay a statutory portion of the expense, a disabled person must do the same.”

What I allege

  1. I allege that from December 5, 2025 through at least March 10, 2026, the City of Brookhaven’s published ADA Coordinator was someone who had left the City.
  2. I allege that on February 24, 2026, Christian Sigman, City Manager, put her departure in writing, and that 14 days later the City’s Title II page still sent complaints to her.
  3. On the face of the documents, the City Manager knew, and the page did not change.
  4. That is hard to square with a City that, the whole time, was telling me where to send my ADA grievance.
  5. I allege that on March 23, 2026, the City of Brookhaven wrote that “a disabled person must do the same.”
  6. It appears to me that the City of Brookhaven treats an ADA coordinator as a name on a page, not a trained person at a desk. If that is not the reason, they are welcome to tell me what is.
  7. I allege that on October 23, 2026, the City’s website names three different people for ADA on two pages and labels its ADA grievance process “Title VII.”
  8. I am left to wonder whether anyone at the City of Brookhaven has read its own ADA pages since March.

Why I keep going

I would have left a Google review and moved on. The City of Brookhaven did not leave me that option, so I am leaving this one instead, with every date and every word in writing.

So what about Georgia? What about Georgia, yeah?

Is this how they would treat a friend from church if he were disabled?

The documents

Corrections

I have invited the City of Brookhaven to identify any inaccuracy on this page. As of October 23, 2026, it has identified none.

Disabled Dad