SCPD stomps all over ADA regarding service animals

The ADA trumps state and local laws which would restrict disabled people's rights to be accompanied by a service animal. Thus manner and place laws restricting dogs Downtown and in other public places cannot be enforced when a disabled person is accompanied by a legitimate service animal. Several years ago the U.S. Department of Justice announced that only dogs can be "recognized as service animals under Titles II and III of the ADA". A service animal is "a dog which is individually trained to do work or perform tasks for a person with a disability". It does not need to be certified or professionally trained.

Refer to the following to the following websites:

http://www.petpartners.org/page.aspx?pid=488

http://www.ada.gov/service_animals_2010.htm

From reported incidents, the SCPD seems ripe for an enforcement action for systematically violating the disability rights of homeless and poor people with service animals.