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Total Resource Guide:
(see
also: Infinitec's
Assistive Pooch Resource Guide)
May, 2003-New Airport Check-in
Policy
According to new regulations from the U.S. Transportation Security
Administration (TSA), security screeners at airports are not
allowed to separate a blind passenger from a guide dog, and
then take the harness off the animal. Screeners also will talk
to blind passengers, helping them to empty their pockets of
metal and make sure they reclaim their items at the other end
of the X-ray machine. Screeners will keep the guide dog's harness
on as the animal goes through the metal detector, then pat down
the dog by hand.
Passengers in wheelchairs who can't
walk through the detectors will be offered a private area
where a screener will search them by hand. TSA's goal is to
ensure that every passenger with a disability knows what to
expect at every airport, every time, everywhere," said
Sandra Cammaroto, manager of TSA's screening of persons with
disabilities program. For more information regarding the new
regulations affecting passengers with disabilities, please
see: http://www.tsa.gov.
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Eye Dog Foundation for
the Blind
Local Telephone: (661) 831-1333
Toll Free Telephone: (800) 393-3641
URL: http://www.eyedogfoundation.org
Eye of the Pacific Guide
Dogs and Mobility Services
Telephone: (808) 941-1088
Fidelco Guide Dog Foundation
Telephone: (860) 243-5200
http://www.fidelco.org
Guide Dogs for the Blind
Local Telephone: (415) 499-4000
Toll Free Telephone: (800) 295-4050
URL: http://www.guidedogs.com
Guide Dogs for the Blind
Local Telephone: (503) 668-2100
Toll Free Telephone: (800) 295-4050
URL: http://www.guidedogs.com
Guide Dog Foundation
for the Blind
Local Telephone: (631) 265-2121
Toll Free Telephone: (800) 548-4337
http://www.guidedog.org
Guide Dogs of America
Local Telephone: (818) 362-5834
Toll Free Telephone: (800) 459-4843
URL: http://www.guidedogsofamerica.org
Guide Dogs of the Desert
Local Telephone: (760) 329-6257
URL: http://www.guidedogsofthedesert.org/
Guiding Eyes for the
Blind
Local Telephone: (914) 245-4024
Toll Free Telephone: (800) 942-0149
URL: http://www.guiding-eyes.org
Kansas Specialty Dog
Service
Telephone: (785) 325-2256
http://ksds.org
Leader Dogs for the Blind
Local Telephone: (248) 651-9011
Toll Free Telephone: (888) 777-5332
http://www.leaderdog.org
Pilot Dogs
Local Telephone: (614) 221-6367
URL: http://www.pilotdogs.org
Seeing Eye
Local Telephone: (973) 539-4425
Toll Free Telephone: (800) 539-4425
URL: http://www.seeingeye.org
Southeastern Guide Dogs
Telephone: (941) 729-5665
http://www.guidedogs.org
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