Image Description: The Ride Ahead poster with a yellow and gray design of Samuel in his wheelchair with his hand up. To his left are landmarks from New York, Niagara Falls, DC, St. Louis, and other locations in the film. Text on the poster reads “THE RIDE AHEAD. Now streaming FREE on PBS.

THE RIDE AHEAD follows Samuel Habib, a typical 21-year-old, itching to move out, start a career and find love. But no one tells you how to be an adult, let alone an adult with a disability.

#DisabilityRightsCA #TheRideAhead #PBS #SamuelHabib #Documentary #FilmRecommendation

The Ride Ahead poster with a yellow and gray design of Samuel in his wheelchair with his hand up. To his left are landmarks from New York, Niagara Falls, DC, St. Louis, and other locations in the film. Text on the poster reads “THE RIDE AHEAD. Now streaming FREE on PBS.

This Disability Pride Month, we have a great film recommendation!

The Ride Ahead film is NOW STREAMING for FREE!

Stream the film for free on the POV Docs website and @pbs.org App through September 19.

Find the streaming link, resources, and more at www.rideaheadfilm.com/watchpbs

This facility does not offer a basic, safe custody setting. Instead, the Adelanto setting is abusive, neglectful, and must immediately address the issues detailed in the report.

#DisabilityRightsCA #Adelanto #ICE #ICEfacility #Immigration #Abuse #Neglect #Custody #DHS #GEOgroup #DisabilityRights

These conditions are inhumane and amount to the abuse and neglect of people with disabilities.

Whether someone has committed a crime or not, ALL people under custody of the state deserve basic care and humanity.

Visit the link to read the full report: www.disabilityrightsca.org/press-releas...

Graphic 2: Header Text: Investigations. Right, blue/green DRC logo. Quote Text: "DRC has grave concerns that the recent surge of individuals being held in Adelanto will only place individuals with disabilities at even greater risk of abuse, neglect, and serious harm. The conditions at Adelanto make it clear that the current system of immigration detention is dangerous and inadequate for all people, especially for those with disabilities." Bottom Text: Read the Full Report at the Link.

When DRC visited Adelanto, we found a plethora of issues. Inadequate access to medical and mental health care and disability accommodations, inadequate access to basic survival items like food, water, and clothes, and limited connections with family and natural supports.

Graphic 1: Header Text: Investigations. Right, blue/green DRC logo. Red Title Text: “They Treat Us Like Dogs in Cages”. Subheader Text: Inside the Adelanto ICE Processing Center. Below, a photo of the Adelanto facility. It is an outdoor area with light metal fences and barbed wire. Text on photo: "¡Nos tratan como perros! ¡Nos tratan como perros en jaulas!"

"They Treat Us Like Dogs in Cages,” the alarming new report from Disability Rights California’s (DRC) Investigations Unit and Mental Health Practice Group details that people with disabilities are being subjected to abuse and neglect at the Adelanto ICE Processing Center in San Bernardino County, CA

Thank you to Senator Sasha Renée Pérez and everyone who has made it a top priority to ensure people offering life-saving services to the unhoused community are protected from criminalization.

#SashaReneePérez #Homelessness #Unhoused #BillUpdate #BillHearing

Image Description: Bold Text: SB 634 (Perez) passes in committee! Top left, blue/green DRC logo. Background photo of several people serving food in an assembly line, wearing matching blue shirts. They are outdoors under a tent.

We're incredibly proud to share SB 634 (Pérez) has passed the Assembly Housing and Community Development Committee! Next, the bill heads directly to the Assembly Floor for consideration!

#DisabilityRightsCA #SB634 #CAassembly

We will continue compiling various resources in the time ahead for all our people.

#LegalServices #ImmigrationLawyer

During this time where immigrant communities are being blatantly attacked, taken, and discriminated against, it is of the upmost importance to care for one another. Let's continue to share resources and be there for one another during this time.

Image Description: Header Text: Immigration Resource. Title Text: Referral to Immigration Legal Services. Sub header Text: Learn more about immigration related legal services at the link. DRC blue/green logo. Photo below of the Los Angeles skyline with electric tower cabling around the foreground

DRC has collected helpful immigration related legal services for those of you affected by raids across the cruel and inhuman ICE raids across California.

Visit the link to explore legal services: www.disabilityrightsca.org/publications...

#DisabilityRightsCA #ImmigrationResource

This has been @katherinewolf.bsky.social, and thus ends my DRC social media takeover! Let DRC know if you like this strategy of posting through it. (Bad for breakups but not for bills!) Contact your state legislators! Kill SB 27 and SB 258. NOTHING ABOUT US WITHOUT US. So much love.

Legislators who work with disability organizations like DRC from the beginning can create policies that turn that grassroots opposition into support! Then those policies are much more likely to succeed in getting housing and funding to disabled people instead of flushing $$$ down the toilet.

I cannot emphasize enough that legislators can and should work with disabled people FROM THE BEGINNING, before even proposing a bill! Part of the reason that CARE Court has such low enrollment and is failing is because of grassroots (and service provider) opposition.

I've seldom witnessed a bill that claims to support disabled people while so efficiently channeling so much money to anyone but (consultants, attorneys, court officers, administrative staff).

SB 27 will now go to the Committee on Appropriations chaired by @buffywicks.bsky.social. Words cannot express what a waste of money this bill is! Per the Assembly Judiciary analysis, $700K+ per person! Or how much those who have to implement it know that it will not work and oppose it!

Umberg closes just by urging an aye vote (because the Senate Committee on Judiciary that he chairs is starting). Motion is do pass as amended to the Committee on Appropriations. Ayes from Schultz, Alanis, González, Lackey, Nguyen, Ramos, Sharp-Collins. Passes.

Lackey states: "There's studies, there's data, and there's reality". (As a scientist-in-training, I find this statement, uh, confusing.) Cites the alternative as leaving people picking through trash on the street. (I cannot emphasize enough how much disabled orgs want to get disabled people housed!)

Assemblymember Thomas Lackey is back and, uh, not helping. Says that he admires the opposition for fighting for liberty but that he supports the bill, saying that "we have to help these people, sometimes, protect them against themselves".

Of note, the California Association of Public Administrators, Public Guardians, and Public Conservators (CAPAPGPC?) is also in opposition! The people charged to carry out the policies in this bill (CHBDA, CAPAPGPC) don't want this!

Other opposing me-toos: Fresno and San Joaquin Counties, Initiate Justice, @westerncenter.bsky.social, Mental Health America of California, @drugpolicy.org, California Youth Empowerment Network, Legal Serivces for Prisoners with Children, @allofusornonehq.bsky.social, @cfilc.bsky.social, and DRC.

Me-toos in opposition include LOTS of people from CalVoices! including one former CARE Court assistant at the Superior Court!

By the way, ALL of the main support witnesses for SB 27, through all the committees in both houses, have been white men. (The Judicial Council of California (JCC) witness was not but stated explicitly that the JCC has no position on the bill.) The opposition witnesses have been diverse.

Notes that in some counties Black and Indigenous communities are over twice as likely to be petitioned for conservatorship. Chair Nick Schultz is rushing her (and only her!) with time markers. Ugh ugh ugh. (Can't emphasize enough how difficult it is to testify at these hearings.)

Leslie Napper also identifes as a senior advocate at DRC, mother, grandmother, aunt, community member, and proud Sacramentan. Notes that CARE Court is not evidence-based and that noncompliance with CARE Court means risking conservatorship.

Notes that she has concerns as a person of color about disparities in CARE Court implementation. (In the first annual report on CARE Court, 18% of CARE Court respondents were Black, compared to about 6% of the California population, a three-fold overrepresentation. www.dhcs.ca.gov/Documents/CA...)

DRC's own Leslie Napper is up as the second opposition witness! Notes that this bill would expand the eligible population by eight times (!). Also notes that the first round of CARE Court cost $700K+ per person, per the Assembly Judiciary analysis (yes), which didn't go to disabled people.

Notes that this is NOT a cleanup bill but a major expansion (yes!) and that Umberg has NOT consulted with CBHDA, which represents the county behavioral health agencies, i.e., those agencies who have to implement this! on the language of this bill.

Michelle Cabrera (www.cbhda.org/michelle-dot...), executive director of the California Behavioral Health Directors Association (CBHDA), is up as the first opposition witness. Fears that this bill will change CARE Court from a voluntary (I would challenge that) to an involuntary program.