A Topeka disability rights activist worked with a New York senator to draft legislation aimed at improving the Americans with Disabilities Act.
Mike Oxford, director of the Topeka Independent Living Resource Center, said Tuesday that he helped draft the Disability Integration Act, introduced by Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y.
“We took a civil rights approach. It’s a civil rights bill,” Oxford said. “We have rights under the law and that’s never been fully realized.”