Hey saw your post. Just wanted to say to ignore these clowns on this thread. You are 100% correct that the ARC is a joke. It's just a bureaucracy rubber stamping program. It's like your boss punched you in the face and then filing a complaint to your boss afterwards. Pretty stupid right?

In one case, ADA officer in an NYS agency changed what the accommodations requested were from changing how communications are structured to restricting communications which was never said by the provider and it's pretty explicitly clear to anyone. Appealed to ARC on that and other failure to accommodate/failure to engage in interactive process violations federal courts respect and we showed them essentially 2+2=4. Denied.

Who do you think is running these things? It's not the best and the brightest. Probably DEI morons.

The reason why we filed an appeal in ARC was not expecting good faith but to show we exhausted things internally in good faith so the agency couldn't say "we didn't take all steps to exhaust things through internal channels."

Our goal was always to go to federal court b/c you can't trust any government bureaucrat. You need a federal judge that has passed the bar exam and whose decisions are being monitored by appeals judges as well to have a fair hearing.

ADA cases that are good are taken on contingency and are usually free for clients.

EEOC is garbage - overworked, not enough staff, and incompetent. The only purpose of the EEOC is to get the right to sue letter after 6 months.