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

What the State Bar of Georgia Did to Me, Step by Step, Part 3

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State Bar of Georgia grievance process

This record follows State Bar of Georgia complaints and grievance submissions through receipt, file placement, dismissal, review and the questions that remained unanswered. It also shows how a State Bar of Georgia complaint was handled in the documented grievance process.

Follow Each Part of the Record

The page above tells the whole story. The pages below take each part apart, one document and one issue at a time.

Step 1

Something Went Wrong

The File Was Not in the FileTwo submissions arrived. The reviewer did not have them.No Rebuttal Received. Rebuttal Received.The dismissal and the admission cannot both be true.The Bar Found My Subject LineIt lost the file, then blamed my email label.

Step 2

I Asked Them to Fix It

One Sentence the Bar Would Not WriteIt admitted the error. It never corrected the dismissal.The Oversight That Corrected NothingThe word was acknowledged. The record was not.More Than Ten Requests. No Real Answer.I kept asking what happened. The answer never came.

Step 3

The Ordinary Route Failed

Complete for What?The file became complete. The dismissal never did.Final Proof Before First LookDiscipline’s burden, applied before the first look.Six Grievances. One Day. Zero Answers.On June 30 the Bar closed six of seven open grievances and answered nothing.No Published Rule for Its Own LawyersOutside lawyers got a stated standard. The Bar’s own lawyers got a paragraph.

Step 4

I Asked for Disability Access

Access Approved. Title II Denied.Approved in writing, then denied it was a public entity.William D. NeSmith III: “It Does Not Appear That You Require Assistance”It wrote that “it does not appear that you require assistance.”I Bought the Tools. They Called It Access.I paid for the technology. The Bar called that the accommodation.One Bar. Different Audiences. Different Answers.One State Bar. Same phrase. Different conclusions. More coming.

The Documents

Read the Record Itself

The Complete State Bar Correspondence RecordThe complete State Bar of Georgia record in one place: correspondence, exhibits, questions, and decisions.The State Bar of Georgia ADA Access DiaryA day-by-day diary of every ADA access request to the State Bar of Georgia and every reply, dated and linked.Same Office. Different Clocks. Different Audiences.Two grievances, one office, two speeds. A seven day dismissal beside a 46 day one. The State Bar of Georgia’s own dates.How the State Bar of Georgia Grievance Process Actually WorksThe State Bar of Georgia publishes four stages and several deadlines. Here is how the process works.
TimelineQuestions Still OpenWhat They WroteSee the Receipts

One Record. Not the Whole Story.

The State Bar record is the flagship of this site.

It is not the beginning or the end.

I asked other Georgia institutions to fix their own mistakes before I ever asked for ADA access. The institutions were different. The request was not.

Fix the mistake.
Answer the question.
Give me a process I could use.

See What Happened Across Georgia
Corrections: this record is built from documents I received. If any fact on this page is incomplete or inaccurate, identify the page, the sentence, and the supporting document, and I will review and correct the record.

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