While California started vaccinating health care workers and other high-risk residents in December, there are still a lot of questions about who will get vaccinated when as the state's rollout continues to expand. 

Starting Monday, the long-awaited day, people with disabilities will be eligible to receive the coronavirus vaccine in California.

Starting Monday, March 15, California will make a new group eligible for vaccines: those aged 16 to 64 with disabilities or preexisting conditions, including severe obesity.

A new vaccine tier opens up on Monday: people with preexisting conditions and disabilities will be eligible for the shot. But it’s unclear what sort of proof – if any – they will need.

Ivis Burris, a 51-year-old Baltimore resident living with muscular dystrophy, was surprised when Disability Rights Maryland notified her last week that she was eligible for a COVID-19 vaccine. 

Los Angeles County currently has the opportunity to take two substantial pots of funding from the state to expand a unique diversion program that addresses the issue of people found incompetent to stand trial languishing in jail while they wait for a state hospital bed to become available. 

- Sawait Seyoum, a Senior Policy Advocate at DRC.
- Lindsay Appell, a Disability Rights attorney at DRC 
- W.B. - Parent of a Black child with a disability. His son has been handcuffed four times by school police in Riverside County. W.B. is passionate about ending over-policing in schools and has spoken on a number of media platforms about this issue.

Senator María Elena Durazo (D-Los Angeles) has introduced SB 639, legislation that would prohibit paying workers with disabilities less than the California minimum wage. SB 639 advances economic justice for workers with disabilities by phasing out the payment of sub-minimum wage and transitions workers with disabilities to competitive, integrated employment. 

GEO Group, which gave to Donald Trump in the 2016 election and profited off his immigration policies, is under fire again following the death of a 74-year-old man at one of its detention facilities.

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.

Three California legal service agencies are calling on the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to investigate the death of a 74-year-old man with a documented history of mental illness who died by suicide while in medical isolation at a federal immigration detention center in Bakersfield.

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

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.

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.

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.