Opinion ID: 2598222
Heading Depth: 3
Heading Rank: 3

Heading: ADA and Section 504

Text: Bickford next claims that the state violated complaint-resolution procedures of the ADA and section 504 by returning her original complaint without addressing its merits. She further argues that the ADA and section 504 claims set out in her original complaint should be rejoined to the IDEA claims and remanded to [the] superior court for a ruling on the merits. The department responds that Bickford's ADA and section 504 claims are not part of this appeal. It also notes that Bickford's points on appeal to the superior court focused solely on IDEA claims. Moreover, the department notes that even if we did consider Bickford's ADA and section 504 claims, we would have to reject them because only the Anchorage School District could consider them in the first instance. We agree that these claims have not properly been preserved. Bickford failed to raise these claims in her second complaint. At the investigation stage before the department, Bickford expressly agreed that Barats would investigate only whether the department had complied with IDEA procedures. Neither the department nor the superior court had occasion to address them. And as the superior court correctly determined, Bickford could not properly resurrect her original complaint in her administrative appeal to the superior court seeking review only of the department's dismissal of her second complaint. Bickford's ADA and section 504 claims are not properly a part of this appeal.