I might get flamed here, but the restroom access laws are a joke to me. Yes I know of Ally and her story, yes I feel for her like everyone else on this site because if you live with IBD long enough it's happened to you, but look at the actual laws. Here's Michigan for example:
http://www.legislature.mi.gov/...=mcl-Act-469-of-2008
Here are the violation requirements ALL of which have to be met:
A retail establishment that has a toilet facility for its employees shall allow a customer to use that facility during normal business hours if all of the following are met:
(a) The customer requesting use of the employee toilet facility suffers from an eligible medical condition or utilizes an ostomy device.
(b) Two or more employees of the retail establishment are working at the time the customer requests use of the employee toilet facility.
(c) The customer provides the retail establishment with a copy of a statement on a prescription form that indicates the customer suffers from an eligible medical condition or utilizes an ostomy device, signed by a doctor.
(d) The retail establishment does not normally make a restroom available to the public.
(e) The employee toilet facility is not located in an area where providing access would create an obvious health or safety risk to the customer or an obvious security risk to the retail establishment.
(f) A public restroom is not immediately accessible to the customer.
Do you carry around a statement on a prescription form signed by your doctor? Probably not. Will you ever be able to prove there were 2 employees on site at an under the table operation like a gas station? Maybe, but are you really going to go through that effort? Do you think some law official is going to over this? What's obvious health or safety risk? How is that defined?
AND finally, let's say you take all the time out of your life to do this, file the civil proceeding blah blah blah. Check the fine. 'can be ordered to pay a civil fine of not more than $100'. Maybe 1% of business owners that actually deny you access is going to care about that.
It's nice to get the exposure, and it's nice to be able to threaten or hopefully get someone that's aware of the law and helps you out, but these are largely just pieces of political legislature. That's my thought anyway.