It's June 26 which means it's Stitch Day (he's experiment 626).
The changes at Disneyland went into effect about a week ago and our petition has reached 21,500 signatures.
The good news is we've been hearing reports of complaints being investigated by official agencies and authorities, like the Florida Attorney General. So here are some things you can do to keep advocating because we're getting attention (including from Disney, we caught a member of the DAS team in our Facebook group and had to confront them).
Find Community
Join the DAS Defenders Facebook group. We're a support and advocacy group with more than 6,000 members who are disabled or allies.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/1180791053291495
Advocacy Resources
Sign and share the petition
www.change.org/disabledaccess
Contact Disney directly
- Disney World Disability Services disability.services@disneyparks.com
- Guest Services https://disneyworld.disney.go.com/help/email/
- Disability Services Disneyland disability.services@disneyland.com
- Disneyland General guest services guest.services@disneyland.com
- Disney Vacation Club members@disneyvacationclub.com
- Shareholders Disneyshareholder@computershare.com
- Chairman of the Board: The Walt Disney Company 500 South Buena Vista Street Burbank, California 91521-0931
- Social responsibility: responsibility@twdc.com
- Disney Social Media
- https://www.facebook.com/DisneyParks
- https://twitter.com/DisneyParks
- CEO Robert Iger https://twitter.com/robertiger
- https://www.instagram.com/disneyparks/
- President of Disney World https://www.instagram.com/jeffvahle
- https://www.instagram.com/joshdamaro
- https://www.tiktok.com/@disneyparks
- https://www.youtube.com/@DisneyParks
Contact the media
- California OC Media List https://www.cityofirvine.org/online-communications-toolkit/media-contacts
- Florida media list https://flpress.com/members/member-directory/#!directory/map
Attorneys General
- California complaints https://oag.ca.gov/contact/consumer-complaint-against-business-or-company
- Florida complaints https://legacy.myfloridalegal.com/contact.nsf/contact?Open&Section=Citizen_Services
Health Department Complaint
Disney is working with Inspire Health Alliance to hire psychologists and nurses to evaluate for DAS. These people are licensed by the state. If you are rejected for accommodations at Disney, file a complaint with the state department of health against the Alliance Health professionals.
Florida
California
Contact elected officials guide https://docs.google.com/document/d/1RVCL7wOOP9nZQ22jf7PP0mAQ3h6l_LwiFSlXHQ_trW0/edit?usp=sharing
File a civil rights complaint in Florida or California
https://calcivilrights.ca.gov/complaintprocess/
https://fchr.myflorida.com/file-a-complaint-page
File a complaint under the Americans with Disabilities Act
https://www.ada.gov/file-a-complaint/
File a Department of Justice Civil Rights complaint
The Department of Justice provides this example of a civil rights violation that you can file a case for. “Discriminated against in a commercial location or public place. A physical or online location that does not provide disability accommodations. Denied an accommodation for a disability, including not being allowed to have a service animal in a commercial or public location”