Sharonville, Ohio
Second Term – 3 years to expire in 2009
Colonel Jackson is a disabled Veteran from the U. S. Army and retiree from Police Service in the State of Ohio. His training in Law Enforcement and Public Safety goes back as far as 1975 before being forced to retire due to disability; he ultimately served with Five Police Jurisdictions and Three Fire Departments.
After suffering a heart attack in the early 1990’s, and later a stroke, he believed his public safety career was over.
With his then free time, he devoted it to the police associations (training public safety officials all across the United States); developing public safety and disability products / projects; and coordinating a National team of police officers (trained in sign language) to assist in national disasters and later developing the only means to alert the nations 23 million deaf and hearing impaired to the threat of a tornado or other disasters.
With that experience, he founded the then Greater Cincinnati Northern Kentucky Police Association, the International Police Relations Council for the Deaf, and the Police Interpreter's Association. These associations continued for about 10 years, until his health took another turn.
Despite learning to manage with new disabilities, he returned to College to finish an old degree, graduating in 1999. Then, during that same year, his Physician prescribed a Service (disability) Dog to assist him. Discovering the incredible insensitivity of the public, to the disabled and especially the disabled who depend on Service Animals, he began studying and learning about Disability and Civil Rights laws. In five years, he had amassed a private library on the subject (a library that has allowed him to mediate over 250 cases of discrimination and civil rights violations).
He now Specializes in Service Animal, Disaster and Emergency Preparedness Planning and cases that involve Public Safety and or Law Enforcement. He also represents individuals confronting government or corporate bureaucracy that disregards the rights of the disabled and the ADA.
Colonel Jackson holds a BS Degree from Northern Kentucky University in Sociology / Afro American Studies. He is a member of the National Organization on People with Disabilities - Interfaith and Religious Leaders with Disabilities, the Disabled Cops Association.
He can be contacted at: theADA.1@juno.com