State Bar of Georgia · ADA Access Diary · Day 3 of 25
I sent a comprehensive ADA accommodation package and a companion conflict-screen demand. ADA Coordinator John J. Shiptenko was designated as a contact around this date.
What had to be true
For a conflict-screen demand to be warranted, the office reviewing the matter had to be the same office whose own staff conduct was now in question. For the accommodation package to be "comprehensive," the prior five accommodation requests had to have gone unanswered.
What I argued
- Demanded a written conflict screen, capacity disclosure, preservation, and conflict-free review of the matter.
- Renewed the time-sensitive ADA Title II accommodation requests and asked the Bar to identify any published accommodation procedure for grievance participants.
- Asked how a new related complaint should be routed.
What the Bar said
A Shiptenko ADA Coordinator designation is logged around this date (body marked PENDING in the record; not quoted).
What it cost
A sixth accommodation request after five unanswered ones. I was assembling a 20-page exhibit binder and conflict-screen demand while in active medical care, the burden of having to formalize and document access requests the Bar had not acted on.
The documents from this day
- I demanded a written conflict screen and a conflict-free reviewer
- I sent a time-sensitive ADA accommodation request and flagged a new routing problem
- I asked the Bar for help finding an accessible way to file
- The State ADA Coordinator’s office responded
- I put the Bar on notice of its ADA Title II duties and asked it to preserve the record
- I sent the Bar copies of the day’s correspondence for its file
- I sent the Bar a complete record of everything I had filed
Read the full story on the State Bar page. See the record in the document room.