The Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA) is a U.S. civil rights law that protects the rights of individuals with disabilities. Title II of the ADA prohibits public entities from excluding any qualified individual with a disability from participating in or denying them benefits of the services, programs, or activities of the entity, or subjecting them to discrimination, based on their disability.1
This law applies to all services, programs, and activities that state and local law enforcement agencies provide to the public, regardless of the entity’s size or receipt of federal funding.2 Law enforcement services, programs, and activities include, but are not limited to, interactions with the public such as taking and responding to calls for service, stops, detentions, interviews, and arrests, and custodial interactions with incarcerated persons.
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