Hanif asks about service animal education and training

Okay, that's good to know.

On my bill, I know the administration shows support.

What education or training does the city currently provide to businesses about service animal access?

And how does that compare with what this bill would require?

Sure.

So I can speak to CCHR, and I think MOPD has trainings as well that can be spoken to.

So we have Human Rights Law 101.

It's our kind of most prevalent training that we offered, I think, 420 times last year, reaching about 20,000 people.

That includes businesses.

It includes small businesses.

We participate with SBS and a number of small business activities.

It includes city agencies and nonprofits as well.

So that's our Human Rights Law 101.

We also have a specific training on disability protections in housing and public accommodations that was offered several hundred times last year and reached about

10,000 people.

As the assistant commissioner mentioned, trainings are ordered as part of our settlements.

So if you are responding in a case, you are going to be hearing from us on what the law requires.

But also there's many, many.

kind of requests every week to our trainings team to come and affirmatively provide education and outreach.

I'm just going to lift up again some of the cases that we've talked about today because the NYC transit case, one of the elements of that case is that buses across the five boroughs now have to post a

service animals are allowed on public transportation poster.

And so that is a way to inform New Yorkers about their rights.

In the housing case that we mentioned, the Tabri decision and order, the landlord has been required to post reasonable accommodation protections in the building, again, to raise awareness in particular places where we think discrimination might be happening

about what people's rights are.

And CCHR and MOPD also have a service animal and public accommodations poster that is already available.

I will say there's other sibling agencies who also have a role, I think, in this particular bill because it touches on so many areas of public accommodation.

So there's a number of codes that are kind of outside of the discrimination space that are at play.

And I know there's a mayor's office of animal welfare who has done a number of educational materials and has a website that touches upon a number of the pieces of this bill.

And I think that's part of the reason that we're still reviewing with law and sibling agencies to identify.

What is duplicative and where this

would most effectively live.