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An advocate discusses the issues, including discrimination during the coronavirus pandemic, talks about the barriers, and clarifies the rights of disabled people. Also, incidents and violence and harassment against Asian Americans are on the rise amid pandemic. What’s behind the attacks? Hatred and bigotry? Civil rights groups demand action.

In Alabama, people with disabilities are still not eligible for vaccines until Phase 1C, and national experts say that’s not right.

Twice a day, five days a week, Mark Chaney, who has cerebral palsy, walks more than half a mile to get to his West Hollywood Metro bus stop.

The Santa Cruz City Council took the first of two needed votes Tuesday toward reinstating an overhauled city law that would restrict when, where and how people without homes sleep outdoors.

In California, caregivers for people who have disabilities are supposed to be at the front of the line for the Covid-19 vaccine, but many of them are going to vaccination sites and then running into problems. Here's KPCC reporter Jackie Fortier.

Parents of children with disabilities qualify for the COVID-19 vaccine in California. Health officials say it's been exploited by people who don't qualify, and individualized proof is now required.

Beginning March 15, California vaccinators are free to start immunizing anyone between the ages of 16 and 64 if they have one of a number of serious health conditions, or if they have a developmental or other disability that increases their risk of severe illness from COVID-19 infection.

California leaders are under fire over the state’s mixed messaging on how people with disabilities will be prioritized for the Covid-19 vaccine, a situation that advocates say has left millions of disabled and chronically ill residents in the lurch.

The three caravans of inmates showed no signs of the trouble ahead. 

On the day before New Year’s Eve, the first transfer bus carried 30 inmates from the Sacramento Main Jail downtown to the county’s second facility south of Elk Grove. Over the next two days, at least 25 more followed.

As states continue expanding their vaccine priority groups to people in specific age groups and professions, some people with disabilities are finding themselves excluded. 

A settlement reached six months ago in Murray v. County of Santa Barbara—a class action lawsuit addressing conditions for inmates at the county jail—is official after the court issued an order granting final approval on Feb. 1. But lawyers on the case say the work to implement the settlement is only just beginning. 

The COVID-19 Health Equity Task Force will provide recommendations for addressing health inequities caused by the COVID-19 pandemic and for preventing such inequities in the future

Last summer in Citrus Heights, James Bradford Nelson, a man with mental illness who had been acting erratically, had his skin seared on the hot pavement until he passed out as police held him to the ground.

Lawyers who once sued Sacramento County over the conditions inside its jails are urging officials to vaccinate more older and medically vulnerable inmates as the number of positive coronavirus cases continues to mount.

Lawyers who once sued Sacramento County over the conditions inside its jails are urging officials to vaccinate more older and medically vulnerable inmates as the number of positive coronavirus cases continues to mount.

Patton State Hospital has begun inoculating all consenting staff and patients with their second dose of the coronavirus vaccine in a rush to stem a rapidly spreading outbreak that has killed 16 patients and infected 548.

Amid a rapidly spreading coronavirus outbreak, Patton State Hospital has inoculated nearly 65% of its patients with their first dose of vaccine, a lawyer for the Attorney General’s Office said Friday, Jan. 22.

Amid a rapidly spreading COVID-19 outbreak that has infected nearly 500 patients and killed 15, Patton State Hospital in San Bernardino is on track to vaccinate all of its consenting patients by Friday, Jan. 22.

With coronavirus infections soaring inside a locked California psychiatric hospital, a federal judge this week is weighing whether to release and transfer hundreds of patients from the facility or to wait for vaccines to be administered.

A federal judge Tuesday will consider whether to release hundreds of patients from California’s largest psychiatric hospital due to soaring Covid-19 rates, a move state health officials say would put the public at risk.