Press Releases

PRESS RELEASE: Disability Rights Vermont Invited to Participate in White House Event, Communities in Action, Building a Better America Posted on March 14, 2024CONTACT: Lindsey Owen802-229-1355 ext. 102lindsey@disabilityrightsvt.org FOR IMMEDIATE… Read More »PRESS RELEASE: Disability Rights Vermont Invited to Participate in White House Event, Communities in Action, Building a Better America

Press Release in pdfReport in pdf Barriers to Voting For People with Disabilities and Proposed Solutions:Focus Group Project July 2020 Disability Rights Vermont (DRVT) and Vermont Secretary of State Jim… Read More »Joint Press Release: VT Secretary of State and Disability Rights Vermont “Barriers to Voting for People with Disabilities and Proposed Solutions – Focus Group Project”.

Press Release in pdf FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: April 16, 2020 Disability Rights Vermont Contact: Ed Paquin, AJ Ruben, Zachary Hozid DRVT Contact: (802) 229-1355 Department for Children and FamiliesContact: Luciana… Read More »Woodside and Disability Rights Vermont Settle Lawsuit

Report in pdf Wrongly Confined A Disability Rights Vermont Report in Consultation with Melodie Peet, M.P.H. March 2020 For a number of months DRVT has intensified our work at assisting… Read More »Wrongly Confined A Disability Rights Vermont Report in Consultation with Melodie Peet, M.P.H. March 2020

Press Release in pdf August 15, 2019 DRVT Press Release on Psychiatric Inpatient Timely Discharge Initiative Twenty years ago the U.S. Supreme Court issued the landmark decision in Olmstead v.… Read More »Psychiatric Inpatient Timely Discharge Initiative

Survey Results in pdf Background and Purpose: Federal and state laws require that towns and cities make their polling places fully accessible to voters with mobility impairments, visual and other… Read More »Statewide Accessibility Survey Results of Vermont Polling Places.

September 2017 Press Release in pdf The Vermont Human Rights Commission has AGAIN found reasonable grounds to believe the State of Vermont has violated the rights of a person with… Read More »HRC has found reasonable grounds that the State of Vermont has violated the rights of a person with disabilities.

September 15, 2015 Press Release in pdfFull Investigative Report in pdf Disability Rights Vermont (DRVT) announces the release of an Investigative Report on the Death of Annette Douglas on January… Read More »Disability Rights Vermont (DRVT) announces the release of an Investigative Report on the Death of Annette Douglas on January 9, 2015 while in the Custody of the Vermont Department of Corrections.

DRVT announces the settlement of litigation with the State Department of Aging and Independent Living regarding the Adult Protective Services system. Please see the links below for the full press… Read More »DRVT announces the settlement of litigation with the State Department of Aging and Independent Living regarding the Adult Protective Services system.