Romano-Disabled Services Flashcards
Who is the owner of Disabled Services?
Director of Personnel & Professional Standards
An interpreter certified by the National or Florida Registry of Interpreters for the Deaf.
Certified Interpreter
one who is able to effectively, accurately, and impartially interpret, both receptively and expressively,
using any necessary specialized vocabulary.
Qualified Interpreter
Certification is not required in order for an interpreter to be ________.
“qualified.”
A keypad device used to provide communication for the hearing impaired that utilizes basic telephone lines for transmitting and receiving.
Telecommunication Device for the Deaf (TDD/TTY)
A service which is available 24 hours a day seven days a week providing live on demand interpreting for people who are deaf and hard of hearing and who rely on ASL to communicate.
Video Remote Interpreting (VRI) (Deaf Link)
The Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office (JSO) currently has _______ VRI units, one at every substation, one at the Pretrial Detention Facility (PDF) and a portable unit located in the Police Memorial Building Security Office.
eight
The VRI connection points within the PMB are in the family rooms of what 2 units?
Homicide
Special Assault
Police Officers will contact the Communications Center and advise that they have arrived at the door of the victim or complainant when either is _____.
blind (vision impaired)
All written correspondence generated with a hearing impaired person who is the victim, witness or suspect in a crime or Baker Act call will be listed in the property section of any reports generated and placed in the _____ ______.
Property Room
Civilian Observer Program
________ _________ will make the appropriate determination as to whether the disability is to the extent that articulable officer/observer safety concerns are validated.
Watch Commanders
Suspects and/or arrestees who are confined to a wheelchair (may/may not) have their hands handcuffed to the wheelchair.
may
_______ must respond to the scene of any call where a hearing impaired person is being taken into custody
Sergeants
Officers will contact the _______to request a wheelchair transport van/bus for all suspects requiring a wheelchair for mobility. If the PDF Watch Commander is unable to guarantee a __ minute response time to the scene, the officer shall transport the arrestee without the chair.
PDF watch commander
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Florida State Statute (F.S.S.) 413.08 provides that individuals who are hearing impaired, blind, or otherwise disabled are entitled to use service animals to accompany them in places that are ________.
open to the public.
F.S.S. 413.08(4) provides any person, firm, or corporation, or the agent of any person, firm, or corporation, who denies or interferes with admittance to, or enjoyment of, the public facilities or otherwise interferes with the rights of a deaf person, hard of hearing person, a totally or partially blind person, or an otherwise physically disabled person under this
section, or the trainer of a service animal while engaged in the training of such animal pursuant to subsection (8), is guilty of a _________.
misdemeanor of the second degree
Under Florida law, the blind and all other physically disabled persons who use service animals are entitled to equal access, without extra charge, to all common carriers, airplanes, motor vehicles, railroad trains, motor buses, streetcars, boats and other public conveyances or modes of transportation, and at hotels, lodging places, restaurants, places of public
accommodation, amusement or resort and other places to which the general public is invited. Violation of this law is a
second-degree misdemeanor
__________ that the service animal is trained is not a precondition for providing service to an individual accompanied by a service animal.
Documentation
Prior to an officer excluding a service animal from any location, he will request a _______ respond to
the scene.
supervisor
a person who, with reckless disregard, interferes with, or permits a dog that he or she owns or is in the immediate control of to interfere with, the use of a
service animal by obstructing, intimidating, or otherwise jeopardizing the safety of the service animal or its user commits a ___________ for the first offense and a ________for each subsequent offense.
misdemeanor of the second degree
misdemeanor of the first degree
a person who, with reckless disregard, injures or kills, or permits a dog that he or she owns or is in the immediate control of to injure or kill, a service animal
commits a _________________.
misdemeanor of the first degree
a person who intentionally injures or kills, or permits a dog that he or she owns or is in the immediate control of to injure or kill, a service animal commits a
_____________.
felony of the third degree
If the decision is made not to provide the requested auxiliary aid or service (decided by a Chief), documentation, via email within 48 hours, must be forwarded to the __________________ indicating why the request was not granted and what steps/aids were provided.
Director of Personnel and Professional Standards
When a __________ determines that providing a particular auxiliary service or aid is an undue financial burden, the most effective means of communication must be used.
Chief or designee
