Your Rights! People with Disabilities and Law Enforcement
Your Rights! People with Disabilities and Law Enforcement
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This document addresses how people with disabilities may assert their legal rights when interacting with police. While knowing your rights may help, you have the best judgment about what will keep you safe.
Disclaimer: This publication is legal information only and is not legal advice about your individual situation. It is current as of the date posted. We try to update our materials regularly. However, laws are regularly changing. If you want to make sure the law has not changed, contact DRC or another legal office.
This document addresses how people with disabilities may assert their legal rights when interacting with police. While knowing your rights may help, you have the best judgment about what will keep you safe.
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- Know Your Rights: Police Interactions for Black and Brown People
- Know Your Rights: Stopped by Police
- Know Your Rights: A Guide for Protesters
- Know Your Rights: Deaf Rights - What to do When Dealing with the Police
- Police Brutality & Deaf People
- Inappropriate Law Enforcement Response to Individuals with Diabetes: An Introduction and Guide for Attorneys
- Lawsuit Seeks Injunctive Relief and Damages for Black Child with Disabilities Who Was Handcuffed, Forcibly Detained by Moreno Valley Campus Security Officers and the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department
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