Thursday, April 25, 2024 | St. Lawrence County, NY
To the Editor: I and many thousands of disabled persons and businesses have been advocating for change in service animal guidelines. The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) issued new guidelines On July …
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To the Editor:
I and many thousands of disabled persons and businesses have been advocating for change in service animal guidelines.
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) issued new guidelines On July 13, 2015 regarding the applicability of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) to service animals. The new guidance underscores the DOJ’s 2010 revisions to the ADA regarding which animals qualify as service animals and permissible lines of inquiry about tasks the service animal performs.
These changes help clarify the murkiness of the legal questions local business owners in St. Lawrence County face.
The new ADA guidelines can be found at http://www.ada.gov/regs2010/service_animal_qa.html
The DOJ’s new guidance also includes new information to clarify some of the questions that educational institutions have raised about the presence of service animals on campus.
The guidance discusses the distinction between psychiatric service animals and emotional support animals, and explains that comfort animals are not automatically excluded from the definition of service animals.
The DOJ also addresses service animals in training, requirements regarding the training and certification of service animals, and the use of identification tags.
Jon Sabin
South Colton
