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• Provides referrals regarding disability discrimination issues and rights under the law

• Training, information, and legal advocacy to parents of children with disabilities to help them secure the education and services guaranteed to their children by law

• Legal representation (only takes a few cases each year) to adults and children with disabilities, in both individual and class action cases involving their rights to employment, education, transportation, housing, and access to public accommodations

• Training and speakers for the disability community, public entities, and private businesses on the provisions of the ADA and its relationship to other state and federal laws

• Education for legislators and policy-makers on issues affecting the rights of people with disabilities

• Training for law students through the Disability Clinical Legal Education Program, including a consortium of 5 law schools and DREDF, offering a course in disability rights law and a clinic in which students work on DREDF cases

Provides information on the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), including technical assistance, education/training, referral, materials, grants, and ADA video library.

• ADA: (612)596-0300

• Adopt-A-Highway information: (612)596-0339

• Dead animal pickup (for deer only; all other animals call Animal Control): (612)596-0299

• Election Information: (612)348-5151

• Government Center, 300 South 6th Street, Minneapolis: (612)348-8240

• Jail, (City/County) 350 South 5th Street, Minneapolis: (612)348-5112

• Juvenile Detention Center: (612)348-8122

• Licensing: (612)348-8240, (drivers, game, fishing, marriage)

• Map request hotline: (612)596-0352

• Notary Public filings: (612)348-8240

• Permit information/office: (612)596-0339

• Personnel: (612)348-2163; employment opportunities, 612-348-7855

• Probation Files - Adult: (612)348-2110; Juvenile: 612-348-3700

• Property Tax Information: (612)348-3011

• Public Defender: (612)348-7530

• Recorder/Registrar: (612)348-5139

• Recycling Hotline: (612)348-3777

• Retirees to the rescue (property tax work-off program): (612)348-3046

• Roads - Construction and Maintenance (Public Works): (612)596-0300

• Traffic sign information: (612)596-0310

• Traffic signal information: (612)596-0293, (612)673-5750

• Traffic Violations (District Court Customer Service Line): (612)348-2040

• Voter Registration: (612)348-5151

• Warrant information: (612)48-2000

Provides a communication center with the following services:

• Braille and tape transcription services for textbooks, vocational, and leisure reading materials

• Braille and tape transcription services for businesses and organizations fulfilling their ADA (Americans with Disabilities Act) responsibilities (fee)

• Dial-In News: A subscription service utilizing synthetic speech to read daily Twin Cities newspapers, accessed by touch-tone phone 24 hours a day (fee)

• Lend and repair cassette Talking Book Machines, which are used to read books and magazines provided by the National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped through the Library for the Blind and Physically Handicapped in Faribault

• Newsline: A service utilizing synthetic speech to read national newspapers and selected local newspapers throughout the country, 24 hours a day

• Radio Talking Book: A special radio network on air 24 hours a day, reading newspapers, magazines, and best-selling books to consumers throughout the state

Provides a communication center with the following services:

• Braille and tape transcription services for textbooks, vocational, and leisure reading materials

• Braille and tape transcription services for businesses and organizations fulfilling their ADA (Americans with Disabilities Act) responsibilities (fee)

• Dial-In News: A subscription service utilizing synthetic speech to read daily Twin Cities newspapers, accessed by touch-tone phone 24 hours a day (fee)

• Lend and repair cassette Talking Book Machines, which are used to read books and magazines provided by the National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped through the Library for the Blind and Physically Handicapped in Faribault

• Newsline: A service utilizing synthetic speech to read national newspapers and selected local newspapers throughout the country, 24 hours a day

• Radio Talking Book: A special radio network on air 24 hours a day, reading newspapers, magazines, and best-selling books to consumers throughout the state