WASHINGTON -- A Little Rock-based organization providing advocacy and litigation services to Arkansans with disabilities is accepting new cases again after previously warning it would have to cease operations over unreleased grant funding.

Disability Rights Arkansas had paused accepting new clients in late April as federal agencies had not delivered funds to allow the organization to provide services after May 31.

"We had funding that was going to be going through the first of June," Disability Rights Arkansas Executive Director Tom Masseau explained in an interview with the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette. "If the funding was not going to be released, I was going to have to furlough seven staff."

Disability Rights Arkansas is an independent nonprofit group serving Arkansans with disabilities

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