QUESTION
How many gender-related complaints were received last year, and why is the data not readily available?
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Deputy Commissioner JoAnn Kamuf Ward commits to providing the number of gender-related complaints during the hearing after Council Member Julie Menin questions the data’s availability.
- Deputy Commissioner Ward promises to retrieve the data on gender-related complaints during the hearing.
- Council Member Menin exhibits frustration over the absence of readily available data on a significant complaint category discussed in the testimony.
- Menin emphasizes the expectation for agencies to have pertinent information accessible for committee hearings.
Julie Menin
0:45:49
You mentioned in your testimony that the highest number of claims that come before the law enforcement bureau relate to the protected categories of disability and gender, how many gender complaints are there, whether last year.
JoAnn Kamuf Ward
0:46:03
So we can I I don't have the number, but we will pull it during this hearing?
0:46:08
And we will tell you yeah.
Julie Menin
0:46:10
Yeah.
0:46:10
And and it just I'm not trying to be difficult here.
0:46:13
I'm just saying we're having this oversight hearing, and it just it's frustrating when agencies can't don't have, like, this is in your testimony.
0:46:20
This is a basic question you're saying.
0:46:22
It's one of your top complaints.
0:46:23
It's sort of the same issue I'm having with DCWP when you testified that something is the top complaint.
0:46:28
We should have that information readily available for the committee.
0:46:31
So it's just like a basic rudimentary courtesy that we would ask agencies when they're coming before committees.
0:46:37
So I'm happy to turn it over to public advocate.