Disability Rights

Disability Rights Center

The Disability Rights Center of Kansas (DRC), formerly Kansas Advocacy & Protective Services (KAPS), is a public interest legal advocacy agency empowered by federal law to advocate for the civil and legal rights of Kansans with disabilities. DRC is the Official Protection and Advocacy System for Kansas and is a part of the national network of federally mandated and funded protection and advocacy systems.

Communications

Telephone Relay Service (TRS)

TRS enables standard voice telephone users to talk to people who have difficulty hearing or speaking on the telephone. Under Title IV of the Americans with Disabilities Act, all telephone companies must provide free relay services either directly or through state programs throughout the 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and all of the U.S. territories. Businesses, government agencies, family, friends, and employers of persons with hearing and speech disabilities make and receive relay calls everyday.

Employment

Office for Civil Rights (OCR)

The mission of the Office for Civil Rights is to ensure equal access to education and to promote educational excellence throughout the nation through vigorous enforcement of civil rights.

U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC)

EEOC mission is the elimination of illegal discrimination from the workplace.

Federal Laws Prohibiting Job Discrimination Questions and Answers

Federal Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) Laws

Housing

Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity

The Fair Housing laws.

Office of Civil Rights Complaint Form

HUD Complaint Form

Are you a victim of housing discrimination?

Fair Housing Rights

The Fair Housing Act prohibits discrimination in housing because of race or color, national origin, religion, sex, familial status (including children under the age of 18 living with parents or legal custodians, pregnant women, and people securing custody of children under 18), and handicap (disability).

Kansas Residential Landlord Tenant Act

Mobile Home Parks Residential Landlord and Tenant Act

Kansas Landlords Handbook

Kansas Landlords Resource Page

Kansas Tenant Handbook

Kansas Tenant Resource Page

Transportation

Equal Access to Transportation (DOT)

Greyhound Lawsuits & Rider Information