Florida bar tells veterans: Your service dogs can stay but you must leave

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Florida bar tells veterans: Your service dogs can stay but you must leave

Disabled veteran trespassed by Port Orange police

Emilee Speck, Digital journalist
Loren Korn, Reporter
Published: September 30, 2020, 7:49 pm
Updated: October 1, 2020, 12:50 pm

PORT ORANGE, Fla. – Several veterans with service dogs have recently been asked to leave a Port Orange bar, including one man who was trespassed but told his “dog could stay," police reports and body camera video shows.

On Sept. 25, Port Orange police were called to The Port Hole on Herbert Street around 10 p.m. where an employee at the bar asked police to trespass Stephen Harmon, who was at the business with his service dog, according to the police report.

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“Under the ADA, State and local governments, businesses, and nonprofit organizations that serve the public generally must allow service animals to accompany people with disabilities in all areas of the facility where the public is allowed to go,” according to the U.S. Department of Justice.

Harmon told News 6 he believes this is an attempt by the bar to circumvent ADA laws regarding service animals.

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