This message was from AVRAMA GINGOLD to ALL in THERAPY_SERVICE_DOGS
and was forwarded to you by ANNE PAGE.
From UPI NEWS--I can understand store owners not being aware
of the rules; I can understand--and agree with--the desire of
owners, etc., to see some identification of a dog as a service
dog, but this is ridiculous (and sad).
                                      avrama
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UN> Guide dog barred from vision clinic
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UN>    LOS ANGELES, March 26 (UPI) _ An eye doctor has pleaded no contest to
UN> refusing to let a blind man bring a guide dog into his Los Angeles
UN> office.
UN>    Municipal Court Commissioner Kristi Lousteau ordered 51-year-old
UN> ophthalmologist Dr. Marc R. Rose to contribute $5,000 to Guide Dog Users
UN> of California, attend a guide dog sensitivity training session and give
UN> his employees copies of state laws on access by service dogs.
UN>    Rose was charged with refusing a blind person and his specially
UN> trained guide dog access to a public place.
UN>    State Medical Board investigators say Rose refused to let the blind
UN> man into his office with a guide dog on two occasions in November 1996,
UN> even when the man was accompanied by the training director of the Guide
UN> Dogs of America.
UN>    The man was trying to get an eye examination required by the Social
UN> Security Administration.
UN>    Investigators with the State Medical Board launched a probe into
UN> Rose's conduct after getting a complaint last year from the guide dogs'
UN> group.
UN>    Rose is the second Los Angeles businessman convicted in the past
UN> three months of refusing access to service dogs. The owner of a fast-
UN> food restaurant was ordered to pay $2,700 in fines in January for
UN> refusing to let a wheelchair-bound woman into his business with her
UN> service dog.
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