The receipts. As of October 19, 2026, The Receipts holds documents from six institutions: State Bar of Georgia (16), City of Brookhaven (8), Brookhaven Police Department (7), GIRMA, GMA, and Gallagher Bassett (17), Georgia POST (6) and State ADA Coordinator’s Office (1). Every document cited on this site, each on its own page, in the words of the office that wrote it.
Each badge is explained on the Method page.
Every document cited on this site is listed here, each on its own page with a transcript, the sender and recipient, the date, the subject line, and a plain statement of what it shows and what it does not show. Public officials are named in their official roles. Personal identifiers and a minor are not published.
Start With These Five Documents
Five dated emails, one from each record, as of October 19, 2026. Each was written by the office named. The complete list follows below.
| Record | Start here | Why read this first |
|---|---|---|
| State Bar of Georgia | April 21, 2026: the State Bar’s admission about the February submissions | DOCUMENTED FACTThe Bar wrote that it received the February 3 and February 20 submissions, misclassified them, and that they “were not added to the grievance file at that time,” before the April 10 dismissal. |
| City of Brookhaven and Brookhaven Police Department | March 2, 2026: City records estimate of $49,385 | THEIR WORDSThe City’s records portal wrote that one open records request would take “an estimated 950 hours at $51.98 per hour, total cost: $49,385.” |
| GIRMA, GMA, and Gallagher Bassett | March 13, 2026: Gallagher Bassett on the extra claim numbers | DOCUMENTED FACTGallagher Bassett wrote that the numerous emails sent to the claim intake department “were mistakenly set up as new claims” and that the extra claim numbers were voided. |
| Georgia POST | August 6, 2026: POST’s ADA Coordinator on the State ADA Coordinator’s inquiry | DOCUMENTED FACTPOST’s own ADA Coordinator forwarded the State ADA Coordinator’s Office request for POST’s Title II contact and grievance procedure. She wrote: “I am not sure how to respond to this.” |
| State ADA Coordinator’s Office | May 12, 2026: the State ADA Coordinator’s Title II answer to the State Bar | DOCUMENTED FACTWhen a State Bar lawyer wrote that the Bar “is not a public entity,” the State ADA Coordinator answered in writing the same afternoon that “there are instances where State Bars have been held to be Title II entities under the ADA,” and sent three sources. |
State Bar of Georgia
| Date | Direction | From / source | Document | What it shows |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 21 | Received | Leigh Burgess (Asst GC) | The misclassification admission | The Bar admits the Feb submissions were received and misclassified, not added to the file before dismissal. |
| Apr 21 | Sent | The complainant | Reconsideration response | Asks the Bar to withdraw the April 10 dismissal and reclassify the February submissions as rebuttals. |
| Apr 21 | Sent | The complainant | ADA Title II accommodation demand | Splits the access track from the merits and sets a deadline to fix it. |
| May 4 | Received | John J. Shiptenko (ADA Coordinator) | Accommodations granted | Grants written communication and accessible formats; the same rights as non-disabled grievants. |
| May 12 | Received | William D. NeSmith III (Deputy GC) | Title II coverage denial | Writes the Bar is not a public entity and not required to have a published ADA Coordinator; copy list stripped. |
| May 12 | Received | William D. NeSmith III (Deputy GC) | Meeting offer | A one-line availability sent to the complainant alone, retracted the next morning. |
| May 12 | Sent | The complainant | Response restoring the facts | Restores the full institutional copy list and requests a substantive response. |
| Jun 16 | Received | John J. Shiptenko (ADA Coordinator) | Grievance form returned | Returns a blank grievance form and offers alternate submission methods, without answering the operational questions. |
| Jun 17 | Sent | The complainant | Grievance filed via the offered route | Files a grievance against the ADA Coordinator using the alternate method the Bar offered. |
| Jun 17 | Sent | The complainant | Outstanding ADA issues (17 questions) | Seventeen unanswered access and process questions. |
| Jun 17 | Received | John J. Shiptenko (ADA Coordinator) | Voice-to-text reply | Answers one point by directing the complainant to use his own voice-to-text tool; the other questions go unanswered. |
| Jun 18 | Received | John J. Shiptenko (ADA Coordinator) | One-word receipt | Acknowledges the grievance against himself in a single word, to the complainant alone, with no number or reviewer. |
| Jun 25 | Sent | The complainant | Status demand on seven open cases | Restores the recipients and asks for a written status on each of seven open cases; decisions: none. |
| Jun 26 | Sent | The complainant | 42 Days of Silence; two-tiered grievance system | Documents 42 days with no decision on an insider grievance while an outside-lawyer grievance got a number and a decision; read by three senior officials within 45 minutes, none replied. |
| Jun 30 | Received | Jeffrey W. DeLoach and Adrienne D. Nash | The June 30 decision letters | The six State Bar of Georgia decision letters dated June 30, 2026, signed by Jeffrey W. DeLoach and Adrienne D. Nash. |
| Sep 28 | Public filing | Nall & Miller, LLP, for the State Bar of Georgia defendants | The defendants’ September 28 brief | Federal court brief filed September 28, 2026 by counsel for the State Bar of Georgia defendants. The brief’s own words, page by page. Arguments, not findings. |
GIRMA, GMA, and Gallagher Bassett
| Date | Direction | From / source | Document | What it shows |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 13 | Received | Belinda Boscoe (Gallagher Bassett) | The extra claims were “mistakenly set up as new claims” | Intake opened seven extra claim numbers for one case, eight in all. Review to finish next week. |
| Mar 13 | Sent | me | ADA accommodation inquiry | An ADA contact, a phone call, one answer on claim structure. No response found through October 19, 2026. |
| Mar 16 | Sent | me | Time-sensitive follow-up | No response. |
| Apr 1 | Received | Belinda Boscoe (Gallagher Bassett) | The denial: “various administrative tasks” | File closed on the surgery date; no word on either pending request; no policy provision named. |
| Apr 2 | Sent | me | Request to reopen and reassign | To the supervisor, from recovery. No response found through October 19, 2026. |
| Apr 6 | Sent | me | Fourth accommodation request | A phone call and an ADA contact. No response found through October 19, 2026. |
| Apr 6 | Received | Larry Hanson (GMA CEO) | Read receipt | The fourth request was opened at 4:41 PM. No reply found through October 19, 2026. |
| Apr 12 | Sent | me | Title II demand to Robert Angotta, Gallagher Bassett | Who is the ADA coordinator, where is the grievance procedure. No response. |
| Apr 14 | Sent | me | Certified Title II notice to GMA’s CEO | Five asks, ten business days, eleven attachments. Answered May 1 by counsel. |
| May 1 | Received | James R. Westbury, Jr. (for GMA and GIRMA) | The harassment letter | What is your disability; GIRMA may cease voluntary ADA compliance; the emails are harassment; an opinion that a crime was committed. |
| May 1 | Received | Cameron J. Wall (Gallagher Bassett) | Gallagher Bassett’s letter | No involvement. Page two dated December 11, 2025. “GIMRA” three times. |
| May 6 | Sent | me | Retraction demand, twelve items | Five in 72 hours, seven in five business days. |
| May 7 | Sent | me | Response to Wall | “That answers a claim I did not make.” |
| May 13 | Received | State ADA Coordinator’s Office | Reply on the GIRMA request | Seven asks answered in a day; the office is not an enforcement agency; DOJ enforces Title II. |
| May 13 | Sent | me | Cure-window scorecard | Zero of twelve. |
| May 20 to Jun 16 | Received | Office of Commissioner of Insurance | Consumer complaint case on Gallagher Bassett | Case assigned; licensee’s clock runs from a forwarding date never stated; no substantive update. |
| May 21 | Received | Rusi C. Patel (GMA General Counsel) | GMA’s response | Westbury represents GMA and GIRMA; the issues are “being handled through the appropriate claims and legal processes.” |
The June 26 correspondence and the read-receipt and out-of-office records are presented in the Articles, with their source material quoted in full. Additional document pages are added as the documents grow.
Corrections: this index is built from documents I received. If any entry is incomplete or inaccurate, identify the document and I will review and correct this page.
The Receipts
One theme, one page. What happened, why it matters, what the documents say, what is still unanswered, and where the documents are. Every claim has a document behind it.
More receipts are being added as each theme is documented and sourced. See the full State Bar record and the unanswered questions.
Georgia POST
| Date | Direction | From / source | Document | What it shows |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 24 to Sep 10 | Both | Georgia Peace Officer Standards and Training Council | Georgia POST ADA Correspondence Record | The full dated chronology. A complaint filed in February, a written disability access request in April, and a Title II notice and grievance procedure that appeared on the POST website on August 7, one day after its own ADA Coordinator wrote that she was not sure how to respond. |
| Jul 15 | Internal | Meghan Fail, ADA Coordinator, POST | “I have never received training or gained any real knowledge of ADA” | POST’s designated ADA Coordinator tells the State ADA Coordinator’s Office she was asked to take the role to protect employees and did not expect to handle public issues. |
| Jul 27 | Received | State ADA Coordinator’s Office | “an ADA Public Notice and ADA Grievance Procedure” | A written plan for a new ADA coordinator. Item 3 tells POST to review the requirements for the two documents it published on August 7. |
| Aug 27 | Received | Paul Jay Pontrelli, Assistant Attorney General | The determination on the Title II grievance | Accepts the existing submission, grants written communication, removes the meeting requirement, and otherwise denies the grievance. |
| Sep 21 | Both | Georgia POST open records | Seven seconds to an answer, written by a machine | A payment authorization sent at 7:27:42 AM drew a reply dated 7:27:49 AM. Its headers carry Precedence: bulk, X-Autoreply: yes and Auto-Submitted: auto-replied. The same automatic reply, titled “Acknowledgement of ORR”, answered a litigation hold that asks for nothing to be produced. |
| Sep 21 | Sent | Georgia Department of Administrative Services | POST pointed at another agency, so I asked it | POST answered a liability coverage request with no records and named this Department. The request follows the pointer, and asks whether Title II and Section 504 claims are covered, excluded, or sent somewhere else. |
State ADA Coordinator’s Office
| Date | Direction | From / source | Document | What it shows |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 5 to May 12 | Produced Sep 22 | Stacey Peace (State ADA Coordinator) and John J. Shiptenko | The Peace and Shiptenko email thread | Email thread, May 5 to 12, 2026, between Stacey Peace, State ADA Coordinator, and John J. Shiptenko, State Bar of Georgia. Produced September 22, 2026. |
City of Brookhaven
| Date | Direction | From / source | Dated record | What it shows |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 23 | Received | Christian Sigman, City Manager | Sigman declined a meeting | City Manager Christian Sigman cited potential litigation and declined “any meetings in the near-term.” |
| Feb 11 | Received | Jeremy T. Berry, City Attorney | Brookhaven Took $356.54, Then Marked My Request Complete | City Attorney Jeremy T. Berry wrote about prepayment for 29 recent requests, quoting the state law. |
| Feb 24 | Received | Christian Sigman, City Manager | The ADA contact had left | Sigman wrote that Lillian Young is “no longer with the City of Brookhaven as HR Director.” |
| Feb 26, 1:59 PM | Sent | The complainant | ADA grievance to the published contact | I sent an ADA grievance to the City’s published contact, copying City Manager Christian Sigman. |
| Feb 26, 2:47 PM | Received | Christian Sigman, City Manager | Redirected in 48 minutes | Sigman replied: “Lillian Young is no longer with the City of Brookhaven. Please direct ADA grievances to Linda Warren.” |
| Mar 2 | Received | City of Brookhaven | One request priced at $49,385 | The City of Brookhaven priced one records request at $49,385. |
| Mar 6 and Mar 9 | Received | City Clerk’s office portal account | 36 requests closed, 20 in 5 minutes 38 seconds | The City closed 36 of my requests on March 6 and March 9, 2026, 20 of them in 5 minutes and 38 seconds. Each of the 20 notices said the request “has been marked complete due to lack of approval of provided estimate.” |
| Mar 23 | Received | Linda G. Warren, whose letter calls her the City’s ADA and Title VI Coordinator | Records fee accommodation denied | Warren denied relief from records fees: “because others making an ORA request must pay a statutory portion of the expense, a disabled person must do the same.” |
See the full City of Brookhaven record.
Brookhaven Police Department
| Date | Direction | From / source | Dated record | What it shows |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 9 | Sent | The complainant | Request to the Chief | I sent the Chief a written request for a departmental response. No substantive answer. |
| Feb 17 | Received | BPD records portal | Fee estimate | Portal estimate: “We estimate the total fee for your request will be $44.02 for 2 hours.” |
| Feb 20 | Received | Records portal, account of Clarissa Medina, Records Clerk | Request closed, file a new one | The portal account under Clarissa Medina’s name closed a request: “This request is complete. Please file a new request with the details mentioned in your email and include a reference to this request.” |
| Feb 23 | Received | Records portal, account of Clarissa Medina, Records Clerk | Sent to the City Clerk | The portal account under Medina’s name sent me to the City Clerk for records it said it did not maintain. |
| Feb 24 | Sent | The complainant | Email as a disability accommodation | I renewed my written request to communicate by email as a disability accommodation. No written answer. |
| Mar 5 | Received | Records portal, account of Myra Standridge, Records Clerk | No responsive documents | The portal account under Myra Standridge’s name closed a request: “There is no responsive documents for this request.” |
| Mar 19 | Received | Records portal, account of Clarissa Medina, Records Clerk | Closed for lack of response | The portal account under Medina’s name closed a request “due to the lack of response.” |
See the full Brookhaven Police Department record.