One disabled complainant, one access request, and three very different responses from three places.
1. What I first asked for (April 30, 2026)
I filed a 64-page ADA technical-assistance package with the Georgia State ADA Coordinator’s Office. It was the first program-access complaint ever filed against the State Bar through that channel. I asked for three things any public entity is supposed to have: a visible ADA Coordinator, a published Title II grievance procedure, and public notice of Title II rights.
2. What the State ADA office did with it (May 6 – May 14, 2026)
The State office treated it as a legitimate access concern, called the Bar directly within days, and treated the matter as one involving access to the Bar’s programs, services, and activities. The State ADA Coordinator wrote:
The proper routing path for your ADA-related grievances as they relate to the programs, services and activities of the State Bar of Georgia would be to file a grievance with .
When I sent that office a thank-you, it answered in 19 minutes.
3. Where it stands now (June 2026)
The Bar’s final position: not subject to Title II. Still no published ADA Coordinator on its website. Still no posted grievance procedure. And the newest grievance, filed against one of the Bar’s own lawyers by the only route my disability left open, has gone four days with three emails and no confirmation it was ever received.
The State office answered a thank-you in 19 minutes. The Bar will not answer, in four days, whether a grievance arrived.
A state office that owed me nothing treated my access as real. The disciplinary authority I was forced to use, which owed me a process, treated it as a threat.
Source: State ADA Coordinator engagement record, April 30 – May 14, 2026, and Bar correspondence of record. Quotes verbatim; personal names redacted.
This is what one disabled complainant was sent and shown. You are not alone. Join the club.
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