The ADA currently has no registry in place for service dogs. This creates numerous problems:
employees of businesses frequented ask for paperwork showing the dog in question is a service dog and subsequently commit an ADA violation when none is shown and an owner of a service dog is kicked out of the establishment
morally corrupt companies market and prey on people paying for “proper certification” for their service dog
Emotional Support Animals that do not have the proper public training populate businesses and have been known to attack and traumatize true service animals
By creating an easily accessible Service Dog/Animal Registry, this would provide proper documentation on which animals were trained to provide a service, thus reducing ADA violations, Emotional Support Animals in businesses, and stop online companies from claiming to provide registration.
This could be done through the ADA, federal, or even state levels. Trainers could gain certification from the government for training these animals to perform specific tasks (thus allowing benefits such as tax-exempt business status, grants, etc.), and the government could be more clear on which charges are tax deductible under the Durable Medical Equipment tax deduction, since service animals are considered medical equipment (ex: cost of purchase, vet care, dog food expenses, etc.).
This is a terrible idea. It will make more hoops for disabled to jump through. The ADA HARMS the disabled. Anyone with an “invisible” disability who needs accommodation is isn’t run discriminated against because they don’t “look disabled”. The fourth largest City in AZ accommodated the disabled, for six months, and then refused to accommodate because the City thought they proved the disabled wasn’t. Except she is. She provided proof upon request of accommodation. They DENY the disabled, because they CAN. The disabled can’t fight back, they are “weak” they don’t have money to fight with lawyers. They are easy prey, and the identify themselves when asking for accommodation. NO!!! NO MORE RESTRICTIONS ON DISABLED!!!
No. Just no. The disabled are sick and tired of “proving” their “invisible” disabilities. It’s NONE OF YOUR BUSINESS what is wrong with my body. If I tell you I have a disability, and I tell you that I need something to make my disabled life easier, YOUR JOB is to trust me that I know what is best for me. You aren’t disabled, you have NO IFEA how hard my life is. You have NO SAY in what I use to make it easier for me to live. I need not PROVE a damn thing to YOU. Total Bullshit. The ADA is a JOKE, it harms the disabled in ways you cannot conceive of.
It’s obvious your responses are founded in emotion, which isn’t necessarily a bad thing. Emotion breeds passion, and passion leads to needed change. From a logical perspective, however, I’d like to give you a scenario that isn’t too far out there:
You said that your disability is none of my business and it’s my job to trust that you know what is best for you (I’m assuming via a service dog as this is the topic of the thread). I would say you’re absolutely correct that the details of your disability are not my concern. However, in order to best accommodate you, knowing you have one is important.
When you say you have a service animal trained to complete a task (the only 2 questions permitted to be asked about the situation), I am trusting your answers. I’m also trusting the answers of the next lady that comes in after you who says she has a service dog trained to complete a task. So when that dog comes up to yours and attacks your dog, leaving it with trauma, injuries, or worse, and renders it no longer able to be utilized, then it’s a serious problem. Wouldn’t you agree?
Forget I mentioned the ADA since you claim they do more harm than good. I also mentioned other agencies that could potentially help spearhead the endeavor of getting valid licenses for service animals. It’s not to limit anyone with a disability (which you assumed I don’t have despite not knowing me) but to hold liars accountable and make environments safer for the service animals and, especially, the people who need to utilize them.
Do you have any ideas of alternative means to the issue?
There are a few Veteran Organizations have great ideas for Service Dogs / Animal one I didn’t catch the name of this Organization also includes Veterans as well civilian who are disabled, they have a set up where the disabled person can train there own animal with training from them on how to train there Dog, to cut the cost almost to nothing. I believe that with these type of Organization that deal strictly with service animals, would be a great way for both the Animals as well there owner
When it is expected that people are supposed to blindly trust others when they say they have a disability and do whatever the supposedly disabled person says, then you have the problem of not disabled people exploiting the system to get special perks they don’t need and ruin it for the people who actually do need disability accommodations.
I can’t tell you the number of people I’ve seen that have abused service animal rules to get their pets into stores that do not allow pets.
To a lesser degree, the number of pesky kids who try to abuse the rules to use electric carts as joyrides through stores, which risks keeping them from being used by people who actually need those carts.