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Identifying disability petition

Identifying disability petition

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Started by Rachel Saferstein 7 years, 5 months ago

If you had one chance to disclose your identity with a officer at the scene of an incident, would you? Thousands of people with disabilities around the world currently suffer from not having the free of speech to tell authorities of their impairment. This year, its our time to make a change. My name is Rachel, and I want to raise awareness of this common epidemic. I want to bring change to Pennsylvania for the safety and well being for those with minor disabilities in the community. Every minute, there's a car crash. More than likely, there's a second witness in the car. However, its pretty common to encounter a witness on the spectrum as high functioning or a less severe impairment. However , especially those who are on the spectrum, they have a delay with their social skills, hence forth making social situations hard to tackle.Instead of a police officer approaching them in "a scary approach that those on the spectrum view", if the police suspect the individual has autism , or asks to see their id or drivers license, this could ease the situation for the person and and authority. Otherwise a mental outburst will rupture the victim entirely. My goal is to inform my Pennsylvania State Representative Tom Murt this on going issue, to getting in touch with the senate to further our conversation of this impending rule. If passed in PA, those who have a minor impairment have the right to stop by their DMV to fill out a form indicating their disability, which will then be added to their license or ID. I also want to address the need for Pennsylvanian police officers to undergo extensive training to learn how to how to encounter situations of pedestrians with situation more smoothly instead of raising un necessary accusations. disabilities, instead of assuming for the worst they are under the influence or on drugs.

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Mike Hunt
7 years ago Featured

My son has autism and I worry about this every time he drives. A simple notification on his license would save so much stress for both him and the officer. Please make this happen.

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