What follows is not opinion. These are facts, timestamps, quotes, and recordings.

I want readers — and other vulnerable adults — to see exactly what happened to me so they can recognize these patterns of administrative abuse in their own lives.

• A vulnerable adult with traumatic brain injury cannot be expected to track fast-moving legal procedures

• DHS is required by law to ensure equal participation

• ADA Title II requires effective communication

• Any failure is on the agency, not the disabled person

• A judge has a duty to adapt, not demand “matching wits”

• Failing to do so is a civil rights violation

• It is a form of administrative abuse and system-induced harm

• It directly increases risk of harm and re-traumatization

I was expected to navigating this hearing without no prior notification there was one until a few hours before.

Appeals Judge and Hennepin Appeals Lead personnel mislabeled the number. They never sent the letter they claimed to have sent (proven facts). The dismissal letter showed up with four days just fine, FYI.

This is not a sign of my lack of ability — it is a sign that the appeals process is unfit for the people it is designed to serve.

It is not an isolated event. This is systematic abuse. It has occurred over and over in the appeals processes I have initiated since 2023.

Rep•In’s reporting provides the factual bases for this sweeping allegation and proves it is true.

In this appeal, I have lost everything including soon to be evicted from my home of thirty years,. But I want the world to know that Judge SamDeVido and Ms. Broderick are pulbicllly on record and reported with just the facts of what they did so others can see them for who they are professionally. This is not an isolated case of “me” but rather happens to thousands of other people routinely. It is the appeals system systemically abusing the less fortunate, over and over. In 2021, the Apppeals Division processed approximately 15,000 program appeals (DHS Website).

This Rep•In Report provices facts. Nothing stated here is anything more than a clear stately that it is unlawful and abusive actions.

What kind of Judge hasn’t read a vulneradult’s appeal file to knolw who the disabled person is and how they are disabled or even that they are a vulnerable adult? Judge SamDeVido.

His paperwork was prepared by Hennepin Appeals Lead, Ms. Broderick who left that important information out. She never included the accomodation requirements on file. She edied out the pages from the annual disability level Jan 2025 assessment itwo months previously in her March preparation Packet for the jucge. Why did she leave out the information about the appellant being a vuonerable adult? Why did she leave out the accomodations requirements on file? Why did she leave out the appeal submissions as submitted on the appeal submission website, requesting and requiring help with the appeal?

I clearly stated in my appeal submission i needed assistance and help putting my arguements together. Ignored 100%. This was before I was beaten unconscious multiple times with water thrown onme to wake me up and beat me unconscious again. This judge and this appeals lead do not care for a second and clearly refused to consider the information. My case manager refuses to advocate for me, as she would be reprimanded or suffer major repercusions give the powerful positions both of these people hold to harm her, as well as em. But he statuatory requirement to advocate for me is not even attempted in any way.

One of the reasons they can get away with this, is likely, and I’m not saying this factually, people as beaten and sick as me die quickly. I have asked for the information from their records to do an analysis, but in previous attempts they won’t provide the information. I requested the case manage to provide the exact communications to her throughout the appeal process for this last episode. She never responded in the 10 day accomodation requirements. Two weeks later her manager, I think, as it is unclear who is writing this email for my case manger, responds and says in her email with two clear lies, that I am not a person who is letting them do their best, as they are busy people and do the best they can, as they kill people like me by taking away resources and life-supporting requirements. I make the anology of people who would trip you as they do the best they can and as you land face down with a broken nose on the pavement, sit on you to take your breathe away (analyhogy to George Floyd). This is how abuse works and this is systematic abuse in action.

The Reality I Was Put Into

I am a vulnerable adult with traumatic brain injury.
I was beaten unconscious repeatedly on April 15th.
I am still under medical care.
I still have cognitive, memory, and processing impairments.

And yet:

• I received no advance notice of this hearing
• The letter was never delivered (provable)
• The email notice was mis-labeled
• I received the correct information only hours before the hearing
• My ADA/Accommodation requirements (10 days minimum) were ignored
• My request for assistance preparing my arguments was ignored
• My January MnCHOICES assessment pages confirming I am a vulnerable adult were removed from the packet prepared for the judge by Hennepin County Appeals Lead Keeley Broderick
• The judge admitted he had not reviewed the file
• The judge refused to determine whether he was a mandated reporter despite me reporting multiple forms of abuse
• The judge hung up
• Then the judge issued a letter claiming I withdrew

This is not due process.
This is not equal access.
This is not the ADA.
This is what systemic administrative harm looks like in real time.

What It Feels Like

People think “abuse” only happens through physical force.

But administrative abuse can take the breath out of your lungs just as effectively.

Not by kneeling on your neck —
but by cutting off the supports you need to live.

Not by physical force —
but by procedural force, because people in authority can make any record they want.

This is how vulnerable adults are erased.

This is how people die quietly.

This is how systems dispose of people they don’t want to deal with.

I am not exaggerating.
I am describing patterns of harm.

Why This Matters

Here is what the law requires:

• A vulnerable adult with TBI cannot be expected to track fast-moving legal procedures
• DHS is required by law to ensure equal participation
• ADA Title II requires effective communication
• Any failure is on the agency, not the disabled person
• A judge has a duty to adapt, not demand “matching wits”
• Ignoring accommodations is a civil rights violation
• This is a form of administrative abuse and system-induced trauma
• It directly increases risk of harm to the person

Yet I was expected to navigate a DHS appeal with:

• no notice
• missing evidence
• missing assessment pages
• incorrect contact information
• no accessible preparation time
• no legal assistance
• a judge who openly stated he had not reviewed the file
• a judge who ended the call and then claimed I withdrew

This is not a sign of my inadequacy.
This is evidence that the process is unfit for the people it is designed to serve.

The Pattern

This is not the first time this has happened to me.

• Previous appeals were mishandled
• Key evidence was omitted
• My needs were not accommodated
• Critical protections for vulnerable adults were ignored
• Requests for clarity and assistance went unanswered
• My case manager failed to advocate for me
• Her manager responded weeks later with statements contradicted by the transcript
• No one followed my ADA accommodations
• No one followed Minnesota’s vulnerable adult statutes
• No one followed basic due process

The pattern is unmistakable.

This is systemic.

This is administrative abuse.

And now — finally — I am publishing the evidence so others can see it clearly.

Why I’m Publishing This

Likely I have already lost everything —
including my home of 30 years.

But I am still alive.
And I will not let this be erased.

The judge’s own words, the silence on the recording, the timestamps, the transcript:
these speak for themselves.

This report shows:

• what was said,
• what was not said,
• what happened,
• what did not happen,
and who was responsible.

This is not slander.
This is documentation.

Judge deSamLazaro and Hennepin County Appeals Lead Keeley Broderick
are now publicly on record with the factual consequences of their decisions made visible.