City Won't Provide Terps

The city council in Statesville, North Carolina heard from the mother of a deaf man during their Monday meeting. Speaking through an interpreter, Summer Lipford called in the city to have an ASL interpreter on call for emergencies or other situations that could arise between the city and its deaf residents. She told members of the council that the city is not "ADA friendly" and handed out copies of the law. She's referring in particular to her son's recent arrest. Lipford claims that magistrates told her they were not obligated to provide Michael Godbey with an interpreter.