Action | Electronic Visit Verification |
Stage | Proposed |
Comment Period | Ended on 3/21/2020 |
I am a wheelchair user who needs help to be as independent, active, and productive in society as possible. EVV threatens to steal the hard won independence of millions of people with disabilities like me. With the use of EVV, Virginia wants to track my movements. They want to know where I go, what I do, and who is with me every day. They are tracking people like me right now. I'll have to carry a special device, hope to not forget it, and I won't be able to leave my home without notifying the government. I haven't been arrested or committed a crime, and yet, my feelings can be summed up as sheer humiliation, as if I have done something wrong for being a law abiding citizen with a disability.
I know persons who collect disability claiming they can't work who are, for the most part, abled. They work up to three jobs collecting funds under the table. No one tracks them. No one asked them if they have three jobs with illegal funds coming in. No one. Yet, Virginia wants to ask me, as someone who cries for assistance just to be independent and productive, to be treated like a criminal. The sheer humiliation of it all!