Unruh Civil Rights Act
URL: https://www.dfeh.ca.gov/peoplewithdisabilities/
The Unruh Civil Rights Act is California’s primary civil rights law that guarantees full and equal accommodations, advantages, facilities, privileges or services in all business establishments to all persons regardless of medical condition or disability. The California law incorporates ADA but provides even more expansive protections. Private child care programs, such as family child care homes and centers whether serving infants and toddlers, preschoolers or schoolagers, are considered business establishments under Unruh. People who feel they have been discriminated against may either file private lawsuits through a private attorney or they can file a complaints with the Caliornia Department of Fair Employment and Housing, the agency charged with enforcing the Unruh Civil Rights act, within one year of the violation.