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On March 16, 2026, CPR filed a federal lawsuit challenging the City of Worcester’s 911 program that discriminates against children, youth, and adults with mental health disabilities by denying them equal access to appropriate emergency services. 

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On January 23, 2026, Texas and eight other states – Alaska, Florida, Indiana, Kansas, Louisiana, Missouri, Montana, and South Dakota – renewed their attack on Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act and the integration mandate.

CPR condemns anti-immigrant actions that terrorize our communities, target Black and brown people, impact people with disabilities, violate the Constitution, and harm innocent legal observers. Within these atrocities, the daily threats to people with disabilities and their caregivers are dramatic.

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CPR, the Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law, American Civil Liberties Union, Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund, Justice in Aging and the National Health Law Program join in solidarity with the transgender community to denounce discrimination against transgender people, including those with disabilities, and to condemn the anti-trans actions by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and this administration. 

Today CPR submitted on its own behalf and on behalf of 33 other national and state disability advocacy organizations comments opposing the Department of Homeland Security’s proposed “public charge” rule.  This rule, if enacted, would allow DHS to deny entry to or remove anyone with a disability if they, their children, or their family members relied on any type of public resources for support.  CPR and the other 33 organizations stated that the proposed rule would discriminate based on disability and violated the Administrative Procedures Act.

On November 23, 2025, The U.S. District Court for the District of Maine rejected a joint effort by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and the State of Maine to weaken a settlement protecting the state’s youth behavioral-health system and the rights of children with disabilities. 

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The case involves the state of Texas’ appeal of a trial court decision which found that Texas’ voter suppression law, S.B. 1, violates the rights of disabled voters under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act.