Karen Strauss Now New Deputy Chief of Consumer Bureau
12 03 2010All..
Read the public notice. Finally FCC hires someone at top management role that at least understands TRS very well; after all she wrote a book on TRS. It will enhance Greg Hlibok’s work and he is very knowledgeable about TRS issues. FCC now has two persons who can really help shape TRS into what it should be – functionally equivalent in all aspects.
Deputy Chief Strauss
Notable quotes: "Ms. Strauss will focus on disability issues, among other things, and will help the Commission to implement the components of the National Broadband Plan that address access for people with disabilities, including leading the effort to develop a proposed Accessibility and Innovation Forum"
"Strauss has over 25 years experience working on telecommunications access for people with disabilities."
"Previously, she served as legal counsel for Gallaudet University’s National Center for Law and Deafness, and the NAD. Prior to that, she served as Deputy Bureau Chief of the former Consumer Information Bureau at the FCC. In that capacity, she helped initiate its first Disability Rights Office and managed the Commission’s consumer and disability access program and policies."
eyes open & thumbs up,
Ed
Long Link:
http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DOC-296832A1.pdf
Great!! Umm, sounds a good person to be hired!!! Curious, is she Deaf? Thanks.
Congrats goes to Karen Peltz-Strauss. I remember her from my intern days at the NAD Law Center. (Summer of ’96… Ages ago!) At time time, I had no inkling she would go on to rewrite the book on the TRS industry. Here’s to more good things coming out of this appointment.
“Finally FCC hires someone that at least understands TRS very well”?
Greg Hlibok is well versed with our TRS and VRS endeavors. Yes, now he has someone to back him up, that’s good news.
Great news about Karen Strauss as a New Deputy Chief of Consumer Bureau.
Now we really need a person to be a New Deputy Chief of Deaf Education Bureau to reform the Deaf Education program that still have the problem across the country.
Let’s stop kidding ourselves that Deaf babies and children in schools are being the same level as hearing children in schools. We do have a lot of problems with Deaf Education.
We need to get to the root of the problem with Deaf Education and Language.
Please go to http://www.dbcusa.org/ and understand why Deaf babies and children in schools are the big problems we have in the Deaf community.
Thank you,
John F. Egbert
Good to have someone like Karen Peltz-Strauss with the TRS experiences. Also back Greg Hlibok as he needs.
Good to have someone like Karen Peltz-Strauss with the TRS experiences. Also back up Greg Hlibok as he needs help.
By now you have received my mail out email acknowledging Greg Hlibok. At least y’all know I am not perfect and make bloopers once a while.
Hey “no name here, sorry”,
She is not deaf, but can sign.
eyes open & thumbs up..
Congrats to my friend and former work colleague, Karen. We were staff attorneys together at the National Center for Law and the Deaf and had fun working together. She picked up sign language fast. We remain friends to these days and still confer on issues of importance to the deaf, hearing loss, and deaf-blind community. Hands waving in the air for your appointment, Karen. And I bet Greg Hlibok is happy to have her there at FCC as well. Keep up the good work, Greg, and continue those vlogs on the FCC website. Sheila Conlon Mentkowski, JD
Why do I feel a sense of relief with the appointment of Karen Pletz-Strauss? I guess along with Greg Hlibok, the two can be sagacious and perspicacious in spotting not so kosher going ons with the TRS & VRS “industries”. Whew & sigh.
HPMenkis
Hiring Karen as the Deputy Chief of Consumer Bureau is the giant leap in the TRS history. Karen rocks!!
This is an excellent opportunity for the Deaf and hard of Hearing Americans!
FCC politics is so complicated and most of the staff are so focused on policy issues; however, with Karen on board will make sure that our telecommunication needs are met.
This is a perfect timing because of what had happened with the VRS. I believe Karen will bring in some light on what had happened with Purple Communications regarding to Deaf staff making business calls. A Deaf employee has a right to use the VRS as an individual who cannot use the voice phone and VRS is the means for them to communicate. Deaf VRS employees do not have any other options in making business or non-business telephone without being able to hear and speak on the voice telephone.
The phone calls by Deaf people regardless if they are working for Purple Communications or at another VRS company should be reimbursed by the TASA/NECA/TRS/FCC fund. I think this issue needs to be revisited as for Deaf people working in the VRS making calls. Where I work and I do business with other companies making VRS calls. How is that different if I am not a VRS employee? Does the Deaf VRS employee have options, if they cannot call VRS because they work for VRS? This logic is troubling and I hope Karen will show the FCC commissioners the conflict that was supposed to enhance the Deaf people’s freedom to call anywhere and from anywhere.
I do not see that happening because the buck stops at the FCC that has Deaf employees and making calls is part of their job requirement which is not allowed for reimbursement.
Wait until someone opens the can of worms!