I have a difficult time understanding what it is about people that they honestly and truly believe that they can refuse service to someone because of a seeing eye / service dog if they want to.
The law is clear - you cannot prohibit either of these animals from going anywhere that the general public is allowed to go. That means if you allow people access to your restaurant, then you must allow the dogs. If you have a hotel, you MUST allow the dogs in the hotel; if you allow people access to your kitchen - YOU MUST allow the dogs access to your kitchen. Period, and no you cannot refuse.
Federal law as well as state law is clear - crystal clear but I'll be dammed if it does not happen on a daily basis; and not just here in Illinois.
These dogs provide a service to their owners, without which they would not be able to function. It is not unlike a cane or a walker. I wonder if some of these people would refuse to allow those individuals in their establishment as well?
It is time that everyone realize that you cannot refuse access or accomodation and doing so, you will run the risk of severe penalties.
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Probably the same ones that do not understand that when the speed sign says 55 it means 55, not 75.
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