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Regional Vice President - Region 8 Western NH Email Randy

Randy Wagoner
Regional Vice President

Born in August 1964, Wagoner is a New Hampshire native. He was born with a degenerative birth defect and grew up using leg braces and crutches to walk. He has been a wheelchair user since 1985. Randy G. Wagoner began his career in Law Enforcement in 1982 as a work study program while attending his senior year in high school. A person with a disability, he was unable to become a Patrol Officer but soon found his niche as a Communications Officer. Starting with the Hartford, VT Police Department he would work his shift and then ride with the officers out in the field for another 8 hours. He gained a unique perspective of what the units on the road needed for information and what they experienced on the other side of the radio.  Over his 25+ year career he has worked for the Woodstock, VT Communications Center and the Vermont State Police. Since 1985, Randy has worked for the Hanover, NH Police Department as a Communications Officer. The center provides dispatch services for 22 Towns and 56 agencies in both Vermont and New Hampshire covering an area of over 900 square miles. Randy is a Communications Training Officer, a Critical Incident Stress Debriefer, and the Department’s webmaster and ADA Coordinator.  Randy began his labor experience on the management side of the table as a member of the Hartford, VT Selectboard.  He was instrumental in organizing the first local for the members of the Hanover, NH Police Department and has served on the negotiating committee and as the president of the local for three separate terms. He serves as a Regional Vice-President for the New England Police Benevolent Association (NEPBA). Randy is a nationally recognized expert in the areas of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), Accessibility and Disability Policy. Upon passage of the American’s with Disabilities Act (ADA) in 1990 he was specifically selected by the US Department of Justice and the EEOC to be 1 of only 150 people nationwide to receive a two part training as an ADA Compliance Consultant and Mediator taught by the Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund (DREDF). He is a NASA trainer and also offers training specifically geared to Law Enforcement agencies on the ADA and interacting with people with disabilities both as complainants and arrestees. He has acted as an expert witness for several national law firms in ADA cases. In June 1992, Randy provided testimony before the United States Senate related to ADA Implementation and Disability Policy and in 1993 was asked to participate in “People First – A Report to the President”.   He is a member of the National ADA Training and Implementation Network and serves as Adjunct Professor with Round Table Group, a Washington, DC think tank.  Wagoner has been married for nearly 19 years to his wife Chris and they have two young children. He enjoys travel, the occasional good cigar and sings barbershop quartet harmony.