[BREAKING] Los Angeles Department of Public Health Director, Barbara Ferrer — of COVID lockdown notoriety — has slapped an unlawful red box warning on their website. It states:
ATTENTION: Forms provided by Frontline Health Advocates (or similar entities) do NOT meet the California Immunization Law requirement for medical exemption, and will not be accepted for admission to pre-school programs or schools in Los Angeles County.
Per California Health and Safety Code, Section 120325-120370, only medical exemptions issued in CAIR-ME by a physician licensed in California (or proof of receiving required vaccines) meet the documentation requirements for school admission/attendance.
LA’s Department of Public Health places unlawful red box warning about the ADA Vaccine Waiver.
The situation is simple—and deeply concerning: school districts, including LAUSD, have been unlawfully rejecting federally protected ADA vaccine waivers.
These ADA waivers, created by our partners at Frontline Health Advocates under the leadership of medical-legal expert Dr. William Lionberger, are not optional guidelines. They are federal disability accommodations backed by the Americans with Disabilities Act. Under federal law, schools must honor these waivers.
“I believe the LA Department of Health is trying to provide cover for Los Angeles schools to unlawfully reject the ADA Waiver,” said Alix Mayer, Board Chair & Free Now Foundation co-founder.
Mayer discusses this ADA Waiver situation in the 5 minute Mayer Medical Liberty Moment video, below.
Cease & Desist Letter Sent to Ferrer’s Department of Health
Ferrer’s Department’s statement is not merely misleading—it is illegal. Federal ADA protections supersede state vaccine mandates. No state or district has the authority to nullify a federal civil-rights accommodation through a website disclaimer.
“Think of a corollary situation with handicapped parking placards,” said Mayer, “What if California’s Department of Motor Vehicles — instead of just issuing handicapped parking placards based on orders from a driver’s medical doctor — were also in charge of deciding the validity of the doctor’s disability assessment? Even if the DMV hired medical doctors to do this work, those doctors wouldn’t examine the patient who has the placard, and they would violate due process by issuing an unwanted and binding second opinion. What if these fictional DMV MDs denied every parking placard, the way the Department of Public Health denies all valid vaccine medical exemptions for disabled students?”
Luckily, the ADA doesn’t work that way.
The absurdity of a State scheme trumping federal ADA protections is lost on Newsom, Ferrer and California’s Department of Public Health.
We had to point it out.
Our legal partner — Disabled Rights Advocates, LLC — issued a cease-and-desist letter demanding the statement’s removal. The LA Department of Health has yet to comply.
This is precisely why our lawsuit — about to be filed with lead attorney Jessica Barsotti in collaboration with Disabled Rights Advocates, LLC – is essential. Thanks to your donations, Free Now Foundation has been able to fund more than a year of legal work to prepare this very special case. It will be filed any day now.
ADA Waivers Are Non-Negotiable
California has the most strict vaccination mandates in the country, leaving medically vulnerable children without any safe or lawful path for school attendance. The ADA fills that void. It requires schools to provide reasonable accommodations when a child’s health or safety could be compromised by a mandated medical procedure.
ADA protections:
- do not depend on California’s immunization laws
- cannot be vetoed by a school district administrator
- cannot be overridden by a school nurse
- cannot be dismissed through misleading website statements
Every time a school denies an ADA waiver, it is violating federal civil-rights law.
Our Lawsuit: Making Schools Follow the Law
Free Now Foundation, partnering with Dr. Bill Lionberger and Frontline Health Advocates, is advancing a landmark federal lawsuit to ensure every California school honors ADA waivers—exactly as the law requires. This case is about one principle: disabled students have rights, and we will make sure those rights are upheld.
To find out more about our lawsuit, please read: “The Doctor Defying Mandates: How Dr. Lionberger’s ADA Waiver is Restoring Medical Freedom.”
Mayer Medical Liberty Moment at Liberty Forum of Silicon Valley: Newsom’s Department of Health Unlawful Website Warning About ADA Waiver
Aria Morgan is a writer and advocate dedicated to civil liberties, medical freedom, and free speech. As Director of Content at Free Now Foundation (2024–2026) and former Managing Editor of Children’s Health Defense–CA (2021–2024), she helped shape investigative storytelling efforts advancing informed consent and individual rights.
Aria bridges more than 30 years of embodied wellness practice and over 25 years of teaching with civic engagement. Her wellness work lives at DailyDowndog.com
I am here on your side Aria Morgan. If Newsom, and Ferrer continues this, We The People will Face Both of Them in Person!! I’m sick of this!! No one has to put up with either one of you doing illegal, corrupt things, that try to take away the Americans Freedoms. Not Going to Work This Time!! IM READY TO FACE BOTH IF YOU!!
Please join us in 2026 when we peacefully deliver all the petition signatures to Newsom’s office in person! Details to be announced in the new year.
[email protected]. thank you. My son is 62so i don’t worry . Thanks for being there and fighting again stupid California laws.
Please file a lawsuit against the California Department of Public Health. When school districts don’t follow their guidelines, especially the CAIR-ME system, the district gets audited and penalized financially. CDPH puts these mandates in place, and they are violating federal ADA rights. CDPH uses the school districts as their minions and shields.
We didn’t know districts get audited and penalized financially for not following CAIR-ME. That would be great for our lawsuit, as it would bring the CDPH in as a Defendant. Do you have more information on that or documentation? If so, could you email us at: [email protected] with any info you may have? Thank you!
Our private daycare and preschool facility is audited and threatened with de-licensure by Santa Clara County Public Health Department. The practice is granular, down to the kiddo and to individual shots in each series.
That’s frightening! Santa Clara County has been totally out of control since 2020. This is exactly why we have lawsuits to end this tyranny. The ADA waiver may work there, if your child qualifies for an ADA disability. Please contact frontlinehealthadvocates.com to see if your child might have an ADA-qualified condition or not, and to learn more about its success in preschools. Since you’re in Santa Clara, please come meet me and the team in May in Silicon Valley when we have our annual Spring Gala.
lausd thinks ed code is law & they preach it as so not knowing true law not mandates & policy are only guidelines for law but push them hard as if they were relevent the more lawsuits against them the better & will hopefully put them & the little nazi health dept back in there place of advising not being dictators
Lockdowns showed everyone the difference between guidance, policy and mandates, and how they can be conflated to wield power over the populace. This must stop.
Do you have Nicole Shanahan helping you with your organization. She is no fan of the jabs, and she has a 6(?) yr old daughter with autism.
No, she is not involved.