Sentences with phrase «mandated access to all public»

While service dogs enjoy federally mandated access to all public places, therapy dogs are not guaranteed the same accessibility.

However, therapy dogs don't have federally mandated access to public places.

Not exact matches

Unless the PBO's mandate is changed and the Office reports directly to Parliament, rather than to the Library of Parliament, it will never be fully independent and have access to information from departments and agencies that it requires to provide Parliamentarians and the public with the expert analysis they need to hold the Government to account.

After public influence, the Government has decided this is unacceptable, and is now mandating a minimum standard of care that all US Citizens will have access to.

«She will be an invaluable member of the Senate Democratic Conference and with her support we will be able to finally take action on ensuring New Yorkers have access to good paying jobs, real mandate and tax relief, high - quality public education, and affordable health care,» Stewart - Cousins said.

«The principle that requested information should be disclosed if there is an overriding public interest in having access to information, has been reaffirmed in the Joint Declaration adopted by the UN, OSCE and OAS special mandates on freedom of expression.»

«We are all shocked that the governor vetoed a bill that would have reduced racial disparities in the criminal justice system, helped ensure equal access to justice for all New Yorkers, provided improved public defense programs for those who can not afford an attorney, and much - needed mandate relief for counties,» Gradess said.

«The strict secrecy of grand jury proceedings — originating in medieval England and mandated in New York by statute — can be detrimental to access to justice and public debate over issues of compelling public interest,» Lippman said in his annual address, known as the State of the Judiciary.

Wednesday afternoon, the Council's Rules Committee held a hearing on legislation that would mandate that legislative and discretionary funding data be available to the public in a machine readable format, and call on the City Council Speaker to develop a public technology plan for public access to City Council materials and meetings.

The governor says also wants to finally settle the complicated issue of how to give parents access to newly mandated teacher evaluations without subjecting the teachers to complete public scrutiny.

«Government mandates and interventions that do nothing to help patients access their medicines are not the solution,» said Priscilla VanderVeer, deputy vice president for public affairs at the Pharmaceutical Research & Manufacturers of America.

While the Connecticut - based firm was ordered by the state Public Service Commission (PSC) to expand access to 145,000 underserved homes statewide as part of their merger agreement with Time Warner, the firm didn't hit the mandated benchmarks and was subsequently fined last September.

But he and members of other good government groups are putting a priority on strengthening FOIL in other ways, including passing a law that would mandate the payment of attorneys» fees to a plaintiff when a court finds that an agency had no «reasonable basis» to deny access to a public record.

The governor says he also wants to finally settle the complicated issue of how to give parents access to newly mandated teacher evaluations without subjecting the teachers to complete public scrutiny.

For now, mandates seem to be the tool of choice for governments and funders to engineer greater public access, whereas the author - pays method remains a fledgling business model.

The fight over mandating free access to papers based on research funded by taxpayer dollars is again heating up in Washington, D.C. Yesterday, lawmakers discussed expanding the National Institutes of Health's (NIH's) «public access» policy to other science - funding agencies.

, chairman of the House Committee on Science and Technology, on March 31 saying: «We strongly support the efforts of the federal government, such as the NIH mandate and the Federal Research Public Access Act, to provide public access to the results of federally funded research.&Public Access Act, to provide public access to the results of federally funded research.&Access Act, to provide public access to the results of federally funded research.&public access to the results of federally funded research.&access to the results of federally funded research.»

In a joint statement to the OSTP, the Association of American Publishers (AAP) and the Washington D.C. Principles Coalition for Free Access to Science — which represents society publishers — slammed NIH - style mandates as «a means for facilitating international piracy,» saying that they would «damage the very institutions that researchers, the public and government itself rely on to peer review, publish, disseminate and preserve scientific information.»

The Supreme Court's 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision, which mandated the desegregation of public schools, gave the executive branch a legal precedent for enforcing equal access to education.

At least since the Supreme Court's Brown v. Board of Education decision in 1954, this has been interpreted to give the federal government the power to intervene in cases of legally sanctioned discrimination, like the segregation of public schools across the country; to mandate equal access to education for students with disabilities; and, according to some arguments, to correct for persistently unequal access to resources across states and districts of different income levels.

However, the Supreme Court's Brown mandate was to ensure access to a high quality public education to all students, and those ultimately responsible for developing and supporting a foundation for such opportunities — elected officials, policymakers, and the post-Brown courts — have fallen far short of the target.

By legislative mandate, all students have access to some form of public education, and schools are required by law to serve all students.

Others include the 1975 civil rights law mandating public education for special needs children, the bilingual education act of 1968, and the original civil rights education law, which passed in 1965 as part of President Johnson's war on poverty and mandated federal funding to states, equal access for all children, and higher standards.

Public schools, on the other hand, embrace their mandate to provide all students with access to rigorous coursework that prepares them for success in college and the workforce, regardless of their background and special needs status.

In addition, the office administers several important aviation regulatory programs, including the initial and continuing fitness of commercial airlines to serve the public, subsidy and grant programs for air service to small communities, access to slot - controlled airports, the setting of mail rates within Alaska and in international markets, and administers three statutorily mandated programs.

«We're very concerned about what this means for mandate of the public library in providing universal access to a diverse collection in a range of formats... we need to be able to provide customers with access to e-content in the same way that we've always provided access to other forms of content in books and DVDS and CDs et cetera.»

«Ensuring universal access to information in all its forms is key to public libraries» mandate.

Bills, A. 5449 - C sponsored by Assembly member Amy Paulin and A. 7312 - C introduced by Assembly member Micah Kellner have been filed in New York «s legislature to mandate rescue access to public shelters.

Events Without Recycling Plan May Be Denied Access to Public Facilities Now, the city is mulling whether to mandate recycling requirements for events over 100 people which wish to use city facilities.

As part of its mandate to protect the public interest, the Nova Scotia Barristers» Society is engaged in access to justice issues across Nova Scotia, through its Equity Program and enhanced consultation with other key players in the administration of justice.

Mandates the creation of eligibility standards for representation, thus allowing more New Yorkers to access public defense services;

These applications can be focused at both the public and the legal industry — furthering CanLII's mandate to enhance free access to the law for the legal profession and the public.

For many federal courts this Public Access to Court Electronic Records service (PACER) subsequently became the mechanism for compliance with the E-Government Act's mandate.

Among other things, the team has extensive knowledge on infrastructure issues and the deployment of competitive networks and services, including access to rights - of - way, conduits, and utility poles; municipal franchising disputes; and disputes related to municipal and state - mandated franchise fees and fees in support of Public, Educational and Government («PEG») channels.

Section 8, which mandates public access, seems to me to be weaker than the previous sections.

Its short statement that «An official publisher of legal material in an electronic record that must be preserved under Section 7 shall ensure that the material is reasonably available for use by the public on a permanent basis» does not mandate free access and leaves too much leeway to remove material under «reasonable» conditions.

That challenge is whether the cost of legal education at existing Canadian law schools is at odds with the access to justice or public interest mandate of law societies, and whether law societies or governments have a duty to regulate it.

The Affordable Care Act mandates that an insurance company provides an up - to - date directory of providers associated with a plan, which must be accessible via the public website on which the plan is listed.8 Consumers should use this before purchasing a marketplace plan to ensure that they will have access to the providers that they need.