QUESTION
How many alleged or expected human rights law violations does the Equal Employment Practices Commission typically uncover and refer to other agencies?
1:36:58
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The Equal Employment Practices Commission refers alleged human rights law violations to the Commission on Human Rights (CCHR) if uncovered during audits.
- The Executive Director states they have referred 1-2 violations to CCHR
- In one case, a violation was referred directly to the Law Department instead of CCHR
- Normally, all potential violations are referred to CCHR unless special circumstances warrant going to the Law Department
Nantasha M. Williams
1:36:58
How many expected or alleged human rights, law violations.
1:37:02
Do you typically uncover any reporting?
1:37:06
I don't know if this is something that you do or something that's more so related to the work of CCHR.
1:37:12
Like, I don't know if you're referring things to CCHR.
1:37:14
I know CCHR has its own challenges because they don't really provide oversight to city agencies.
Jeanne Victor
1:37:23
Right.
1:37:23
So so when it comes to human rights, law violations.
1:37:29
If we encounter something during the course of an audit, we will refer to CCHR.
1:37:36
I can think of 1 or 2 occasions when we've done that.
1:37:39
There was one occasion though that we became aware of a violation, and we went to the law department with that.
1:37:47
And it was a a violation that the law department was working on with the agency.
Nantasha M. Williams
1:37:53
So you sent it to CCHR, but, ultimately, did CCHR send it to the law department, or how did the law department get involved?
Jeanne Victor
1:38:00
Now for one of one of the violations that I learned of, I I sent it to the law department.
1:38:07
I call I contacted law law department to find out if anything was being done to address the violation.
1:38:14
And I was told that, yes, they were working on it because that particular agency was under the the auspices of a monitor, so they were working in concert together.
Nantasha M. Williams
1:38:28
But you're required are you required to refer things to CCHR by way of the okay.
1:38:33
Yes.
1:38:34
So just depends on what the things are, whether or not you refer to CCHR or the law department?
Jeanne Victor
1:38:40
No.
1:38:40
Normally, we would just refer everything to CCHR.
1:38:43
Okay.
