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Blind unit probe issues outlined
Des Moines Tribune
By George Shirk
April 8, 1978

Jernigan Moves On: Controversy in his wake
Quad-City Times
Sunday, April 2, 1978

Redmond: Restructure Commission for Blind
The Cedar Rapids Gazette
By Frank Nye
March 15, 1978

Contingent of blind Iowans wants a different approach
Des Moines Register
By David Yepsen
March 15, 1978

Legislators say Iowa will miss Jernigan
By John Mathew
Herald Managing Editor
Undated

The Oskaloosa area state legislators said today they’ll miss Kenneth Jernigan, who today announced he is resigning his position as head of the Iowa Commission for the Blind.

Questions to be answered
Des Moines Register
March 15, 1978

We have some questions:

1. Why isn’t the county attorney or the attorney general looking into the conflicts of interests at the Iowa Commission for the Blind?

2. Why doesn’t someone in authority ask the state auditor to do a thorough audit of the agency?

Jernigan Bid For U.S. Post Told
Des Moines Register
By James Risser and Jerry J. Szumski
November 22, 1977

Kenneth L. Jernigan, the controversial director of the Iowa Commission for the Blind, has applied or a $39,000-a-year federal post in Washington, D.C., a government official confirmed Monday.

Kenneth Jernigan

“I think that to understand what we here at the Commission for the Blind are doing, you’ve got to see the blind as a minority. Since, from the time of childhood, all of us are conditioned to believe that, to be blind means necessarily to be less capable than others. Blindness means inferiority.  Now, we’ve got to help the person undo that kind of conditioning.”
– Kenneth Jernigan

Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)

The following excerpts are from the Iowa Commission for the Blind's board minutes concerning an initiative to establish a broom making workshop in Iowa. As noted in the minutes that follow, the initiative was started with a group of blind men in Des Moines.