02/16/2025
Great share from Baltimore Gluten Free - do you live in one of these states below? If so please contact your state attorney general — read more below:
⚠️ If you or someone you love has a disability (celiac, food allergy, learning difference, adhd, physical disability, etc) please read this!
In September 2024, a group of 17 states* filed a lawsuit against the U.S. government called Texas v. Becerra. The lawsuit asks the court to get rid of Section 504 and its regulations.
Section 504 is a major civil rights law for people with disabilities. Section 504 makes sure that people with disabilities are treated fairly and included at school, at their doctors appointments and many more settings.
These state disagree with a few things in the updated Section 504 rules. But the lawsuit asks the court to get rid of all the updated rules – AND to get rid of Section 504 itself, not just the rules they disagree with. The lawsuit says that Section 504 goes against the United States Constitution. The lawsuit says that no one should have to follow any part of Section 504.
Losing Section 504 would be a devastating loss of major civil rights for the disability community.
PLEASE, reach out to your state’s Attorney General in the next week, before the parties report their plans to go forward on 2/25.
⭐️ If you live in one of the 17 states involved: please reach out to your attorney general letting them know how this would impact your loved one (or you). Script and contact link in the comments.
⭐️ If you don’t live in one of the states involved: reach out to your state’s attorney general asking them to do what they can because you’re concerned. Script and contact link in the comments.
Please, take a few minutes to take this important action and ask your friends and family to do the same.
No political comments or debate please.
* Alaska, Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, lowa, Kansas, Louisiana, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, South Carolina, South Dakota, Texas, Utah, and West Virginia.
