Advocate Spotlight – Boomer
Boomer and Mollie just celebrated their four-year partnership anniversary! Boomer is a Seeing Eye Dog, and his job is to help Mollie, his handler, safely navigate her environment. Essentially, she needs to know her destination. He guides her around obstacles she cannot see as she gives him directional commands. If Mollie gives Boomer an unsafe […]
Session Post-mortem
In a session dominated largely by controversial bills centered around public education and the rights of LGBTQ Arkansans to exist in public life, the legislature did not do enough to address the needs of the disability community in Arkansas. There were some bright spots for the disability community; Act 783 expanded protections for people in […]
Registering to Vote Should be Easy
HB1537 has been filed, which would create an online voter registration option. States first began to allow online registration in 2002, which has since been adopted by 42 states, Washington, D.C., and Guam. Arkansas is one of only nine states which do not offer or plan to offer online voter registration. In two of these […]
Level up Your Vernacular
Last night, the Governor of our state, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, responded to President Biden’s State of the Union address. In her response, we heard much of what we expected to hear, but also something that we did not. She said, “The dividing line in America is no longer between right and left — it’s between […]
Board Votes to Place Perimeter Behavioral of the Ozarks’ Residential License on Probationary Status
“Perimeter has had numerous and severe deficiencies putting children at risk” – Placement and Residential Licensing Unit. On October 26, 2022 the Child Welfare Agency Review Board (CWARB) voted to place the license of Perimeter of the Ozarks on a probationary status for one year. This is the first time a residential license that falls […]