Access Through Information: FOI Best Practices in a Disability Justice Context
All too often, disabled people and our communities are forced to rely on whispered phone calls, direct messages, and encrypted emails to uncover both abuses, and opportunities. Often, these whispers are fragments which require further legitimization through freedom of information requests and other forms of access requests. Through this workshop we will work together to create freedom of information requests pertaining to public disability institutions (such as special education schools, group homes, or long-term care facilities). We will work through issues pertaining to anonymity, cost, and what forms of data are publicly available. The workshop is suitable for researchers, activists and organizers, and family or community members of disabled people.
SPEAKER: Megan Linton (she/her) is a researcher and PhD Candidate in Sociology and Political Economy at Carleton University, and the Policy Lead of the Disability Justice Network of Ontario. Her works seeks to disrupt disability institutionalization to dream of caring abolitionist futures.